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Anahita

#7,918 in 2025Girls' name

Immaculate, undefiled

Anahita has been given to 492 babies in the U.S. since 1979. In 2025 it ranked #7,918 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2020, with 24 recorded.

Babies named Anahita, 2025

1 in 255,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Anahita: meaning, origin, and history

Immaculate, undefiled

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Anahita means

Anahita means “immaculate, undefiled”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 492 girls were recorded with the name Anahita between 1979 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 24 in 2020; its best national rank was #5,175 in 2020.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,175 in 2020 to #7,918 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #6,479 in 2015 to #7,918 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.

How common is Anahita?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 255,000
13 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 124,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#7,918
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
176,762 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Anahita 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 176,762 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Anahita. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Anahitas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Anahita was born before 2011 — so the typical Anahita is around 14 today.

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
32.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
75.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
492
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Choose a decade

2010s — 32.9% of all recorded uses (162).

Is Anahita 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
+81
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−2,743
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,439
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.68×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
54.2%
Peak was 2020 (24)
Years since peak
5
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
31.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,175
2020

Spellings of Anahita

Anahita is not the most common spelling — Anita is, with 83.6% against Anahita's 0.19%.

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 Anahita is used

Across 1910–2025, Anahita was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 475,320 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2New York1 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. Anahita has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Anahita around the world

Where Anahita 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
    1998–2025
    #3,035
    in 2025
  • France
    1980–2025
    #4,772
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #1,968
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1980–2012
    #871
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Anahita by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#7,918
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 2,743
Best rank ever
#5,175
2020
Peak year
2020
24 that year
First recorded
1979
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
492
Count in 2025
13

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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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