Anyah
Anyah was given to 22 girls in 2025, #5,573 among girls’ names; 1,663 Americans have been recorded with it since 1988 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,650 Americans named Anyah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 13 and 22.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Anyah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Anyah?
#5,573 among girls’ names, 2025
Anyah fell from #3,485 in 2015 to #5,573 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 25.2 to 13.7 per million.
112 babies in 2005, the peak
Anyah peaked in 2005, when 112 girls were given it, #1,755 among girls’ names. The 22 births of 2025 are 20% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 22 | #5,573 | 13.7 |
| 2024 | 12 | #8,491 | 7.4 |
| 2023 | 32 | #4,371 | 19.9 |
| 2022 | 20 | #6,010 | 12.2 |
| 2021 | 25 | #5,097 | 15.2 |
| 2020 | 33 | #4,181 | 20.4 |
| 2019 | 24 | #5,319 | 14.3 |
| 2018 | 36 | #4,006 | 21.2 |
| 2017 | 37 | #4,006 | 21.4 |
| 2016 | 39 | #3,856 | 22.0 |
Every recorded year (33)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 45 | #3,485 | 25.2 |
| 2014 | 46 | #3,429 | 25.8 |
| 2013 | 53 | #3,081 | 30.2 |
| 2012 | 50 | #3,272 | 28.4 |
| 2011 | 75 | #2,435 | 42.6 |
| 2010 | 84 | #2,275 | 47.3 |
| 2009 | 112 | #1,878 | 61.0 |
| 2008 | 103 | #2,020 | 54.5 |
| 2007 | 106 | #1,940 | 55.1 |
| 2006 | 109 | #1,867 | 57.3 |
| 2005 | 112 | #1,755 | 60.6 |
| 2004 | 108 | #1,768 | 58.8 |
| 2003 | 93 | #1,947 | 50.9 |
| 2002 | 77 | #2,155 | 42.9 |
| 2001 | 89 | #1,939 | 49.4 |
| 2000 | 43 | #3,168 | 23.7 |
| 1999 | 28 | #4,092 | 15.8 |
| 1998 | 18 | #5,595 | 10.2 |
| 1997 | 6 | #12,212 | 3.4 |
| 1996 | 7 | #10,667 | 4.0 |
| 1995 | 8 | #9,640 | 4.5 |
| 1994 | 6 | #11,891 | 3.4 |
| 1988 | 5 | #11,935 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Anyah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Anyah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 33 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Anyah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Anyah, and how old are they?
1,650 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,663 Americans ever recorded as Anyah. The median Anyah alive today is 18 years old; half are between 13 and 22.
The 2020 Census counted 1,263 people named Anyah (1,260 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,515 born in the U.S. The Census count is 17% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 25 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,200 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 421 |
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 Anyah born?
The states with the most babies named Anyah are Texas, Florida and California, with 45% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 105 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Florida | 93 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| California | 74 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| New York | 64 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Pennsylvania | 53 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Georgia | 44 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 44 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Michigan | 31 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| North Carolina | 23 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Louisiana | 16 | not ranked | 0.6× |
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 Anyah with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Anyah?
Anyah is a less common spelling of Aniyah: SSA has recorded 1,663 Anyah and 31,212 Aniyah since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 1,138,483 babies since 1880, Anyah is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 22 of their 7,018 babies (<1%), 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 Anyah
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 Anyah and names like it
- Compare Anyah and AniyahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sAnyah peaked in 2005.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Anyah since 1910.
- The top names of 2005The year the most babies were named Anyah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Anyah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.