Anya — #394 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Anya

The Social Security Administration has registered 19,738 babies named Anya between 1943 and 2024, spanning 82 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Anya currently holds the #394 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2007, when 895 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Anya performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 6,877 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Anya shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 2,627 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Anya in 47 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Anya in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 19,738 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.