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Anai

#4,668 in 2025Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Anai has been given to 2,327 babies in the U.S. since 1984. In 2025 it ranked #4,668 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2005, with 139 recorded.

Babies named Anai, 2025

1 in 114,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Anai: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Anai means

Anai is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Anai is used in Thao.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,327 girls were recorded with the name Anai between 1984 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 139 in 2005; its best national rank was #1,377 in 2001.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,177 in 2020 to #4,668 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,150 in 2015 to #4,668 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 Anai?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 114,000
29 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 55,400
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#4,668
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
79,239 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Anai 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 79,239 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Anai. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Anais were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Anai was born before 2004 — so the typical Anai is around 21 today.

Median birth year
2004
About 21 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
49.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
68.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,327
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 49.3% of all recorded uses (1,148).

Is Anai 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
+960
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−491
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−518
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.83×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
20.9%
Peak was 2005 (139)
Years since peak
20
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,377
2001

Spellings of Anai

Anai is not the most common spelling — Anna is, with 25.0% against Anai's 0.06%.

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 Anai is used

Across 1910–2025, Anai was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 25,000 girls, against 1 in 55,630 across all states with data. It was least common in Oregon (1 in —).

04 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 25,000
  2. 2Texas1 in 33,333
  3. 3Arizona1 in 50,000
  4. 4Florida1 in 50,000
  5. 5Illinois1 in 100,000
  6. 6Washington1 in 100,000
  7. 7Colorado1 in —
  8. 8Georgia1 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. Anai has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Anai around the world

Where Anai 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
    2004–2012
    #4,171
    in 2012
  • France
    2005–2005
    #5,053
    in 2005

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.

Anai by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#4,668
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 491
Best rank ever
#1,377
2001
Peak year
2005
139 that year
First recorded
1984
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,327
Count in 2025
29

Names similar to Anai

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

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Names with a curve like Anai

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Anai, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Anai

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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