Anayah
#913 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Anayah has been given to 3,672 babies in the U.S. since 1996. In 2025 it ranked #913 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 289 recorded.
Babies named Anayah, 2025
1 in 11,500
Anayah 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Anayah?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 11,500
- 289 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 5,560
- 0.02% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #913
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 7,952 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Anayah 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 7,952 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Anayah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Anayahs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Anayah was born before 2015 — so the typical Anayah is around 10 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 43.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 97.4%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 3,672
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 43.3% of all recorded uses (1,589).
Is Anayah 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
- +149
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +612
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +326
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.47×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 100.0%
- Peak was 2025 (289)
- Years since peak
- Peaking now
- At its all-time high
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 16.2% average annual change
Spellings of Anayah
Anayah is not the most common spelling — Aliyah is, with 11.5% against Anayah's 0.86%.
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 Anayah is used
Across 2016–2025, Anayah was most concentrated in Massachusetts — about 1 in 3,125 girls, against 1 in 8,145 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in 100,000).
Most concentrated
- 1Massachusetts1 in 3,125
- 2Florida1 in 3,448
- 3New Jersey1 in 5,882
- 4New York1 in 5,882
- 5California1 in 6,667
- 6Maine1 in 6,667
- 7Arizona1 in 7,692
- 8Texas1 in 8,333
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.
Anayah around the world
Where Anayah 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 & Wales2000–2025#290in 2025
- Scotland2013–2025#632in 2025
- Northern Ireland2024–2024#407in 2024
- Ireland2022–2024#631in 2024
- France2011–2025#428in 2025
- Canada2007–2024#597in 2024
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 and Statistics Canada. ONS, NRS, NISRA 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.
Anayah by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Anayah
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Anayah
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Anayah, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Anayah
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.