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Anaya

#336 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning uncertain in the cited reference

Anaya has been given to 17,997 babies in the U.S. since 1978. In 2025 it ranked #336 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 911 recorded.

Babies named Anaya, 2025

1 in 3,640

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Anaya: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning uncertain in the cited reference

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Anaya means

Anaya is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Anaya is used in English and Asturian.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Asturian, Anaya is pronounced /aˈnaʝa/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 17,997 girls were recorded with the name Anaya between 1978 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 911 in 2025; its best national rank was #336 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #383 in 2020 to #336 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #407 in 2015 to #336 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 Anaya?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 3,640
911 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 1,760
0.06% of girls
Rank, 2025
#336
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
2,524 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Anaya 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 1003%
School of 50013%

Put another way: gather 2,524 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Anaya. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Anayas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Anaya was born before 2014 — so the typical Anaya is around 11 today.

Median birth year
2014
About 11 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
39.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
95.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
17,997
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 39.9% of all recorded uses (7,186).

Is Anaya 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
+70
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+47
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+71
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.15×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (911)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Very steady
5.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#336
2025

Spellings of Anaya

Anaya is not the most common spelling — Anna is, with 39.7% against Anaya's 0.78%.

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 Anaya is used

Across 2016–2025, Anaya was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 901 girls, against 1 in 1,742 across all states with data. It was least common in Nebraska (1 in 7,143).

14111 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 901
  2. 2Connecticut1 in 1,000
  3. 3Maryland1 in 1,190
  4. 4New York1 in 1,205
  5. 5Massachusetts1 in 1,266
  6. 6Florida1 in 1,370
  7. 7Washington1 in 1,408
  8. 8California1 in 1,449

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.

Geographically, Anaya is somewhat regional — more concentrated than 40% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Anaya around the world

Where Anaya 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
    1996–2025
    #86
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2008–2025
    #198
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2016–2021
    #350
    in 2021
  • Ireland
    2012–2025
    #226
    in 2025
  • France
    2000–2025
    #203
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2002–2024
    #129
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2003–2013
    #403
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA 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.

Anaya in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Anaya. Linked forms have their own page here.

Amaya

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Anaya by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#336
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 47
Best rank ever
#336
2025
Peak year
2025
911 that year
First recorded
1978
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
17,997
Count in 2025
911

Names similar to Anaya

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

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Names with a curve like Anaya

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

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Sibling names for Anaya

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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