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Anahy

#6,855 in 2025Girls' name

Cockspur coral tree (Erythrina crista-galli), through Anahí

Anahy has been given to 1,395 babies in the U.S. since 1989. In 2025 it ranked #6,855 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2004, with 94 recorded.

Babies named Anahy, 2025

1 in 207,000

Anahy over time, 1880–2025

Girls
025507510018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Anahy: meaning, origin, and history

Cockspur coral tree (Erythrina crista-galli), through Anahí

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Anahy means

Anahy belongs to the name family reached through Anahy → Anahí. Its meaning is “cockspur coral tree (Erythrina crista-galli)”.

Origin, language, and formation

Anahy is used in Portuguese.

Anahy comes through Spanish Anahí.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Anahí.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Portuguese, Anahy is pronounced /a.naˈi/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,395 girls were recorded with the name Anahy between 1989 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 94 in 2004; its best national rank was #1,937 in 2001.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,868 in 2020 to #6,855 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #5,474 in 2015 to #6,855 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 Anahy?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 207,000
16 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 100,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#6,855
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
143,620 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Anahy 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 143,620 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Anahy. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Anahys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Anahy was born before 2005 — so the typical Anahy is around 20 today.

Median birth year
2005
About 20 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
55.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
78.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,395
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2000s — 55.3% of all recorded uses (771).

Is Anahy 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
−2,555
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−987
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,381
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.67×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
17.0%
Peak was 2004 (94)
Years since peak
21
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
19.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,937
2001

Spellings of Anahy

Anahy is not the most common spelling — Ana is, with 48.8% against Anahy's 0.61%.

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 Anahy is used

Across 1910–2025, Anahy was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 79,002 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 33,333
  2. 2Arizona1 in 50,000
  3. 3Texas1 in 50,000
  4. 4Colorado1 in —
  5. 5Illinois1 in —
  6. 6North Carolina1 in —
  7. 7New York1 in —
  8. 8Washington1 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. Anahy has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Anahy around the world

Where Anahy 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
    2008–2016
    #5,088
    in 2016

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

Anahy by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#6,855
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 987
Best rank ever
#1,937
2001
Peak year
2004
94 that year
First recorded
1989
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,395
Count in 2025
16

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Sibling names for Anahy

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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