Anya
Anya was given to 821 girls in 2025, #375 among girls’ names; 20,561 Americans have been recorded with it since 1943 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 20,300 Americans named Anya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 9 and 23.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Anya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Anya mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Anya is “a female given name from Russian or Ukrainian, of modern usage.” Its etymology gives the sense “Ann” (А́нна).
Also “a female given name from Irish.”
From Russian and Ukrainian А́ня (Ánja, informal pet form of А́нна (Ánna, “Ann”)). Also an Anglicization of Áine.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Anya?
#375 among girls’ names, 2025
Anya rose from #550 in 2015 to #375 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.32 to 0.51 per 1,000.
895 babies in 2007, the peak
Anya peaked in 2007, when 895 girls were given it, #364 among girls’ names. The 821 births of 2025 are 92% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 821 | #375 | 0.51 |
| 2024 | 801 | #394 | 0.49 |
| 2023 | 695 | #443 | 0.43 |
| 2022 | 645 | #486 | 0.39 |
| 2021 | 574 | #537 | 0.35 |
| 2020 | 438 | #657 | 0.27 |
| 2019 | 445 | #658 | 0.27 |
| 2018 | 431 | #678 | 0.25 |
| 2017 | 471 | #627 | 0.27 |
| 2016 | 516 | #592 | 0.29 |
Every recorded year (72)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 564 | #550 | 0.32 |
| 2014 | 671 | #473 | 0.38 |
| 2013 | 688 | #446 | 0.39 |
| 2012 | 787 | #394 | 0.45 |
| 2011 | 727 | #432 | 0.41 |
| 2010 | 789 | #406 | 0.44 |
| 2009 | 889 | #363 | 0.48 |
| 2008 | 884 | #372 | 0.47 |
| 2007 | 895 | #364 | 0.47 |
| 2006 | 777 | #410 | 0.41 |
| 2005 | 680 | #446 | 0.37 |
| 2004 | 631 | #468 | 0.34 |
| 2003 | 596 | #488 | 0.33 |
| 2002 | 578 | #485 | 0.32 |
| 2001 | 508 | #525 | 0.28 |
| 2000 | 439 | #586 | 0.24 |
| 1999 | 326 | #690 | 0.18 |
| 1998 | 252 | #845 | 0.14 |
| 1997 | 152 | #1,193 | 0.09 |
| 1996 | 122 | #1,373 | 0.07 |
| 1995 | 140 | #1,222 | 0.08 |
| 1994 | 132 | #1,284 | 0.07 |
| 1993 | 96 | #1,590 | 0.05 |
| 1992 | 96 | #1,597 | 0.05 |
| 1991 | 80 | #1,775 | 0.04 |
| 1990 | 99 | #1,541 | 0.05 |
| 1989 | 113 | #1,352 | 0.06 |
| 1988 | 78 | #1,660 | 0.04 |
| 1987 | 64 | #1,812 | 0.04 |
| 1986 | 83 | #1,494 | 0.05 |
| 1985 | 91 | #1,401 | 0.05 |
| 1984 | 130 | #1,075 | 0.08 |
| 1983 | 146 | #994 | 0.09 |
| 1982 | 123 | #1,139 | 0.07 |
| 1981 | 166 | #901 | 0.10 |
| 1980 | 334 | #556 | 0.20 |
| 1979 | 72 | #1,593 | 0.04 |
| 1978 | 72 | #1,537 | 0.05 |
| 1977 | 69 | #1,561 | 0.05 |
| 1976 | 57 | #1,698 | 0.04 |
| 1975 | 57 | #1,672 | 0.04 |
| 1974 | 46 | #1,882 | 0.03 |
| 1973 | 50 | #1,756 | 0.03 |
| 1972 | 38 | #2,057 | 0.02 |
| 1971 | 29 | #2,546 | 0.02 |
| 1970 | 32 | #2,357 | 0.02 |
| 1969 | 43 | #1,899 | 0.03 |
| 1968 | 32 | #2,127 | 0.02 |
| 1967 | 29 | #2,216 | 0.02 |
| 1966 | 31 | #2,095 | 0.02 |
| 1965 | 19 | #2,839 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 22 | #2,680 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 26 | #2,368 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 9 | #4,548 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 12 | #3,797 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 9 | #4,448 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 7 | #5,052 | under 0.01 |
| 1958 | 7 | #4,919 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 14 | #3,192 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 6 | #5,239 | under 0.01 |
| 1947 | 5 | #5,339 | under 0.01 |
| 1943 | 5 | #4,722 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Anya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Anya has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 72 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Anya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Anya, and how old are they?
20,300 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 20,561 Americans ever recorded as Anya. The median Anya alive today is 17 years old; half are between 9 and 23.
The 2020 Census counted 17,277 people named Anya (17,222 women and girls, 55 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 16,498 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 3 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 98 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 950 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,710 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 9,810 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 7,710 |
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 Anya born?
The states with the most babies named Anya are California, Texas and New York, with 38% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 134 | #246 | 1.0× |
| Texas | 107 | #318 | 0.7× |
| New York | 53 | #318 | 1.1× |
| Florida | 42 | #445 | 0.8× |
| Arizona | 37 | #174 | 0.8× |
| Washington | 34 | #210 | 1.3× |
| Pennsylvania | 31 | #352 | 1.1× |
| Ohio | 29 | #392 | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 28 | #363 | 0.9× |
| Massachusetts | 22 | #264 | 1.5× |
Where Anya is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Anya is most over-represented in Massachusetts: since 1943 it was given 1.5 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 Anya 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 1,447,399 babies since 1880, Anya is the fifth most given (1.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 821 of their 6,897 babies (12%), the fourth 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 Anya
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 Anya and names like it
- Compare Anya and AnnaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sAnya peaked in 2007.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Anya since 1910.
- Russian namesWiktionary’s origin for Anya: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Anya.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Anya alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.