Anahit

#11,001 in 2025Girls' name

Form of Anahita

Anahit has been given to 386 babies in the U.S. since 1988. In 2025 it ranked #11,001 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2004, with 23 recorded.

Babies named Anahit, 2025

1 in 414,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Anahit: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Anahita

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Anahit means

Anahit is a form of Anahita.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Anahit → Anahita. The family’s meaning is “immaculate, undefiled”, recorded in the naming reference for Anahita.

Origin, language, and formation

Anahit is used in English.

Anahit comes through Armenian Անահիտ.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Anahita.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 386 girls were recorded with the name Anahit between 1988 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 23 in 2004; its best national rank was #5,379 in 2004.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #12,246 in 2020 to #11,001 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #13,105 in 2015 to #11,001 in 2025.

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 Anahit?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 414,000; 8 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only: 1 in 201,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025: #11,001; of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 287,238 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Anahit 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 2025 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 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Anahit. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Anahits were born

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

Median birth year: 2006; About 19 years old
Biggest decade: 2000s; 35.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 71.8%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 386; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2000s — 35.8% of all recorded uses (138).

Is Anahit 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: −3,378; Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago: +1,245; Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago: +2,104; Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago: 1.14×; More babies than then
Share of its own peak: 34.8%; Peak was 2004 (23)
Years since peak: 21; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 33.6% average annual change
Best rank ever: #5,379; 2004

Spellings of Anahit

Anahit is not the most common spelling — Anahi is, with 39.2% against Anahit's 0.78%.

Anahi39.2%19,359
Anais18.7%9,213
Analia15.3%7,568
Anai4.7%2,327
Anali4.6%2,287
Anahy2.8%1,395
Anari2.2%1,096
Anaia1.9%936

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 Anahit is used

Across 1910–2025, Anahit was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 66,443 across all states with data.

22 per 100,000

State popularity map

Most concentrated

1California1 in 50,000

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. Anahit has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Anahit around the world

Where Anahit 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.

France
2005–2025
#4,275
in 2025

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Anahit by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: #11,001
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: Up 1,245
Best rank ever: #5,379; 2004
Peak year: 2004; 23 that year
First recorded: 1988
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 386
Count in 2025: 8

Names similar to Anahit

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

Anayla Anayra Analea Anaisa Anajah Anaria Analyn Anaise Anaeli Anaira Anaika Anahis Analis Anaaya Anaiza Analie Analya Anagha Analiz Anabia Anaiz Anala Anara Analynn

Sibling names for Anahit

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

Sydnie Sydni Shyann Jacquelin Gabriel Shakira Cydney Madisen

For a brother

Kale Jarod Keven Zakary Garret Samual Donavon Shamar

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