Anay
#2,646 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Anay has been given to 2,055 babies in the U.S. since 2001. In 2025 it ranked #2,646 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2017, with 102 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 63% boys, 37% girls all-time.
Babies named Anay, 2025
1 in 67,700
Anay over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Anay over time
In 2025, Anay went to 0% girls and 100% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Anay?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 67,700
- 49 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 34,900
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #2,646
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 46,897 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Anay sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 46,897 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Anay. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Anays were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Anay was born before 2015 — so the typical Anay is around 10 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 61.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,287
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 61.4% of all recorded uses (790).
Is Anay 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
- +145
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −298
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −774
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.63×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 48.0%
- Peak was 2017 (102)
- Years since peak
- 8
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 26.9% average annual change
Spellings of Anay
Anay is not the most common spelling — Adam is, with 24.8% against Anay'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 Anay is used — boys
Across 2016–2025, Anay was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 6,250 boys, against 1 in 25,030 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in 100,000).
Most concentrated
- 1New Jersey1 in 6,250
- 2California1 in 16,667
- 3Illinois1 in 33,333
- 4Colorado1 in 50,000
- 5Massachusetts1 in 50,000
- 6Texas1 in 50,000
- 7Florida1 in 100,000
- 8Pennsylvania1 in 100,000
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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.
Where Anay is used — girls
Across 1910–2025, Anay was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 200,477 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 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. Anay has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Anay around the world
Where Anay 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 & Wales1996–2025#1,705in 2025
- Ireland2025–2025#509in 2025
- France2021–2021#4,218in 2021
- Canada2010–2024#1,536in 2024
- South Australia2009–2011#784in 2011
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, 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. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Anay by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Anay
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Anay
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.