Aniston
Aniston was given to 55 girls in 2025, #3,001 among girls’ names; 2,605 Americans have been recorded with it since 1998 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,590 Americans named Aniston and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 9 and 17.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Aniston by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Aniston?
#3,001 among girls’ names, 2025
Aniston fell from #1,493 in 2015 to #3,001 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 85.7 to 34.2 per million.
179 babies in 2011, the peak
Aniston peaked in 2011, when 179 girls were given it, #1,313 among girls’ names. The 55 births of 2025 are 31% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 55 | #3,001 | 0.03 |
| 2024 | 69 | #2,560 | 0.04 |
| 2023 | 73 | #2,449 | 0.05 |
| 2022 | 73 | #2,465 | 0.04 |
| 2021 | 101 | #1,945 | 0.06 |
| 2020 | 78 | #2,280 | 0.05 |
| 2019 | 88 | #2,129 | 0.05 |
| 2018 | 107 | #1,878 | 0.06 |
| 2017 | 134 | #1,614 | 0.08 |
| 2016 | 142 | #1,567 | 0.08 |
Every recorded year (28)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 153 | #1,493 | 0.09 |
| 2014 | 165 | #1,391 | 0.09 |
| 2013 | 161 | #1,414 | 0.09 |
| 2012 | 164 | #1,405 | 0.09 |
| 2011 | 179 | #1,313 | 0.10 |
| 2010 | 141 | #1,566 | 0.08 |
| 2009 | 130 | #1,704 | 0.07 |
| 2008 | 77 | #2,464 | 0.04 |
| 2007 | 97 | #2,085 | 0.05 |
| 2006 | 82 | #2,310 | 0.04 |
| 2005 | 63 | #2,670 | 0.03 |
| 2004 | 58 | #2,777 | 0.03 |
| 2003 | 53 | #2,885 | 0.03 |
| 2002 | 44 | #3,198 | 0.02 |
| 2001 | 34 | #3,785 | 0.02 |
| 2000 | 27 | #4,407 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 21 | #5,047 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 12 | #7,568 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Aniston a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Aniston has been given almost only to girls: 24 boys in 28 years of records.
Girls and boys named Aniston: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Aniston, and how old are they?
2,590 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,605 Americans ever recorded as Aniston. The median Aniston alive today is 13 years old; half are between 9 and 17.
The 2020 Census counted 2,023 people named Aniston (1,974 women and girls, 49 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,156 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,180 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,400 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Aniston born?
The states with the most babies named Aniston are Texas, Georgia and Missouri, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Missouri is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 7 | #2,665 | 1.1× |
| Georgia | 6 | #1,379 | 1.5× |
| Missouri | 5 | #943 | 1.2× |
Where Aniston is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Aniston is most over-represented in Tennessee: since 1998 it was given 2.8 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Aniston with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 9,503 babies since 1880, Aniston is the second most given (27% of them). In 2025 it was given to 55 of their 281 babies (20%), the third most given that year.
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 Aniston
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 Aniston and names like it
- Compare Aniston and AnnistonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sAniston peaked in 2011.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Aniston since 1910.
- The top names of 2011The year the most babies were named Aniston.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Aniston alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.