Anila
Anila was given to 21 girls in 2025, #5,738 among girls’ names; 592 Americans have been recorded with it since 1979 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Anila by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Anila?
#5,738 among girls’ names, 2025
Anila fell from #5,478 in 2015 to #5,738 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 13.4 to 13.1 per million.
29 babies in 2009, the peak
Anila peaked in 2009, when 29 girls were given it, #4,952 among girls’ names. The 21 births of 2025 are 72% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 21 | #5,738 | 13.1 |
| 2024 | 22 | #5,633 | 13.6 |
| 2023 | 14 | #7,675 | 8.7 |
| 2022 | 22 | #5,654 | 13.4 |
| 2021 | 26 | #4,968 | 15.8 |
| 2020 | 17 | #6,653 | 10.5 |
| 2019 | 19 | #6,189 | 11.3 |
| 2018 | 19 | #6,268 | 11.2 |
| 2017 | 15 | #7,484 | 8.7 |
| 2016 | 27 | #5,007 | 15.2 |
Every recorded year (37)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 24 | #5,478 | 13.4 |
| 2014 | 28 | #4,902 | 15.7 |
| 2013 | 28 | #4,906 | 16.0 |
| 2012 | 24 | #5,570 | 13.6 |
| 2011 | 23 | #5,750 | 13.1 |
| 2010 | 29 | #4,869 | 16.3 |
| 2009 | 29 | #4,952 | 15.8 |
| 2008 | 24 | #5,767 | 12.7 |
| 2007 | 27 | #5,244 | 14.0 |
| 2006 | 14 | #8,279 | 7.4 |
| 2005 | 13 | #8,368 | 7.0 |
| 2004 | 10 | #9,957 | 5.4 |
| 2003 | 14 | #7,608 | 7.7 |
| 2002 | 7 | #12,305 | 3.9 |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,089 | 4.4 |
| 1999 | 9 | #9,544 | 5.1 |
| 1998 | 8 | #10,196 | 4.5 |
| 1997 | 6 | #12,198 | 3.4 |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,183 | 5.7 |
| 1995 | 5 | #13,553 | 2.8 |
| 1993 | 6 | #11,866 | 3.3 |
| 1991 | 6 | #11,596 | 3.2 |
| 1990 | 12 | #6,888 | 6.3 |
| 1988 | 8 | #8,422 | 4.5 |
| 1987 | 7 | #8,825 | 4.0 |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,151 | 3.6 |
| 1979 | 5 | #10,274 | 3.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Anila a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Anila has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 37 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Anila: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Anila, and how old are they?
An estimated 586 Americans named Anila and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 8 and 20. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,816 people named Anila (1,808 women and girls, 8 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 470 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.9 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
How common is the spelling Anila?
Anila is a less common spelling of Anyla: SSA has recorded 592 Anila and 2,795 Anyla since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 20,136 babies since 1880, Anila is the eighth most given (2.9% of them). In 2025 it was given to 21 of their 843 babies (2.5%), again the eighth most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Anila
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Anila and names like it
- Compare Anila and AnylaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sAnila peaked in 2009.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Anila since 1910.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Anila.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Anila alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.