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Aani

Girls' name

Grace, gracious, graced with child, through Ane

Aani has been given to 6 babies in the U.S. since 2023. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2023, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Aani, 2023

1 in 552,000

Aani over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Aani: meaning, origin, and history

Grace, gracious, graced with child, through Ane

Danish

What Aani means

Aani belongs to the name family reached through Aani → Ane → Anne → Anna → Ann → Ann. Its meaning is “grace, gracious, graced with child”.

Origin, language, and formation

Aani is used in Greenlandic. Its origins include Danish.

Aani comes through Danish Ane.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Ane, Anne, Anna and Ann.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Greenlandic, Aani is pronounced /aani/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 6 girls were recorded with the name Aani between 2023 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 6 in 2023; its best national rank was #13,460 in 2023.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Aani?

Aani had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023
1 in 552,000
6 of 3,314,783 births
Among girls only
1 in 267,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2023
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
382,940 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Aani sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2023 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 382,940 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Aani. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Aanis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Aani was born before 2023 — so the typical Aani is around 2 today.

Median birth year
2023
About 2 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
6
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (6).

Is Aani rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2023 (6)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#13,460
2023

Spellings of Aani

Aani is not the most common spelling — Anna is, with 22.2% against Aani's <0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Aani by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#13,460
2023
Peak year
2023
6 that year
First recorded
2023
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
6
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Aani

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

AanaYoaniJruaniZahaniAyraniAanylaAhvaniCemaniHevaniItzaniJohaniKolaniLiyaniOrlaniQilaniSymaniXayaniManiAasaniXilaniItaniDomaniAyvaniNimani

Sibling names for Aani

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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