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Anania

Boys' name

From Biblical Hebrew חֲנַנְיָה; literal meaning unconfirmed

Anania has been given to 54 babies in the U.S. since 2012. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2017, with 9 recorded.

Babies named Anania, 2024

1 in 557,000

Anania over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Anania: meaning, origin, and history

From Biblical Hebrew חֲנַנְיָה; literal meaning unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Anania means

Anania is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Anania is used in Italian.

Anania comes through Biblical Hebrew חֲנַנְיָה.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Italian, Anania is pronounced /a.naˈni.a/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 54 boys were recorded with the name Anania between 2012 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 9 in 2017; its best national rank was #8,186 in 2017.

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.

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How common is Anania?

Anania had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 557,000
6 of 3,342,801 births
Among boys only
1 in 287,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
386,177 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Anania sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 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 386,177 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Anania. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ananias were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Anania was born before 2018 — so the typical Anania is around 7 today.

Median birth year
2018
About 7 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
66.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
54
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 66.7% of all recorded uses (36).

Is Anania 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2017 (9)
Years since peak
8
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
25.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#8,186
2017

Spellings of Anania

Anania is not the most common spelling — Anakin is, with 22.3% against Anania's 0.21%.

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.

Anania around the world

Where Anania 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
    2024–2024
    #5,120
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Anania by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#8,186
2017
Peak year
2017
9 that year
First recorded
2012
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
54
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Anania

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

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Sibling names for Anania

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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