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Anaiah

#853 in 2025Girls' name

Yahweh has answered

Anaiah has been given to 3,463 babies in the U.S. since 1983. In 2025 it ranked #853 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 318 recorded.

Babies named Anaiah, 2025

1 in 10,400

Anaiah over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
010020030040018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Anaiah: meaning, origin, and history

Yahweh has answered

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Anaiah means

Anaiah means “Yahweh has answered”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,445 girls were recorded with the name Anaiah between 1983 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 318 in 2025; its best national rank was #853 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,608 in 2020 to #853 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,678 in 2015 to #853 in 2025.

In the United States, 18 boys were recorded with the name Anaiah between 2009 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 6 in 2009; its best national rank was #10,800 in 2013.

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 Anaiah?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 10,400
318 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 5,050
0.02% of girls
Rank, 2025
#853
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
7,227 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Anaiah 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 5005%

Put another way: gather 7,227 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Anaiah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Anaiahs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Anaiah was born before 2015 — so the typical Anaiah is around 10 today.

Median birth year
2015
About 10 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
37.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
96.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
3,445
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 37.2% of all recorded uses (1,281).

Is Anaiah 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
+66
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+755
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+825
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.50×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (318)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
18.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#853
2025

Spellings of Anaiah

Anaiah is not the most common spelling — Aniyah is, with 12.8% against Anaiah's 1.4%.

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 Anaiah is used

Across 2016–2025, Anaiah was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 3,448 girls, against 1 in 9,607 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in 50,000).

229 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in 3,448
  2. 2Massachusetts1 in 3,448
  3. 3Hawaii1 in 4,348
  4. 4New Jersey1 in 6,667
  5. 5New York1 in 7,143
  6. 6Texas1 in 7,692
  7. 7California1 in 8,333
  8. 8Arizona1 in 14,286

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.

Anaiah around the world

Where Anaiah 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
    2005–2025
    #408
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2024–2025
    #780
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2023–2023
    #856
    in 2023
  • France
    2020–2025
    #1,696
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2008–2024
    #560
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Anaiah by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#853
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 755
Best rank ever
#853
2025
Peak year
2025
318 that year
First recorded
1983
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,445
Count in 2025
318

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#10,800
2013
Peak year
2009
6 that year
First recorded
2009
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
18
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Anaiah

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

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Names with a curve like Anaiah

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

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Sibling names for Anaiah

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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