Anah

Girls' name

Answer

Anah has been given to 435 babies in the U.S. since 1921. 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 2002, with 30 recorded.

Babies named Anah, 2024

1 in 669,000

Anah over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Anah: meaning, origin, and history

Answer

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Anah means

Anah means “answer”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Anah is used in Biblical.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 435 girls were recorded with the name Anah between 1921 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 30 in 2002; its best national rank was #4,186 in 2002.

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.

U.S. Social Security Administration: national name data and limitations

How common is Anah?

Anah had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024: 1 in 669,000; 5 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only: 1 in 324,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 463,412 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Anah 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 2024 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 463,412 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Anah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Anahs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Anah was born before 2006 — so the typical Anah is around 19 today.

Median birth year: 2006; About 19 years old
Biggest decade: 2000s; 41.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 74.7%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 418; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2000s — 41.4% of all recorded uses (180).

Is Anah 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: —; 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: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 2002 (30)
Years since peak: 23; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 34.3% average annual change
Best rank ever: #4,186; 2002

Spellings of Anah

Anah is not the most common spelling — Sarah is, with 22.1% against Anah's <0.01%.

Sarah22.1%1,098,498
Anna18.4%914,859
Ann9.5%470,261
Hannah9.4%465,685
Ava6.9%344,097
Anne6.5%325,128
Leah5.2%256,488
Dana3.9%193,555

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.

Where Anah is used

Across 1910–2025, Anah was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 3,202,555 across all states with data.

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

1California1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Anah has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Anah around the world

Where Anah ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

England & Wales
1996–2021
#3,961
in 2021
France
2004–2024
#4,667
in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Anah 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: #4,186; 2002
Peak year: 2002; 30 that year
First recorded: 1921
Last recorded: 2024
All-time count: 435
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Anah

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

Anam Anara Anaiz Anaid Anala Anani Anael Anavi Anaia Anaisa Analea Analyn Anaise Anahit Anayla Anayra Anari Anai Anaira Anajah Anaria Anay Analis Anaeli

Sibling names for Anah

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

For a sister

Iyana Lisbeth Vanesa Shakira Kaiya Shreya Delanie Magaly

For a brother

Dallin Zakary Keyon Kelton Donavan Jaylon Jaylin Destin

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