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Anda

Girls' name

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Anda has been given to 194 babies in the U.S. since 1943. 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 1955, with 12 recorded.

Babies named Anda, 2016

1 in 459,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Anda: meaning, origin, and history

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Anda means

Anda has more than one naming route in the cited origin entries: distinct naming traditions.

The naming story behind Anda

A separate documented entry treats Anda as a feminine form of Andis. That is a personal-name relationship, which differs from translating the letters of the modern spelling into one universal English word. The linked origin entry identifies the context of this relationship.

Origin, language, and formation

Anda is used in Czech and Latvian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Anna.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Czech, Anda is pronounced [ˈanda].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 194 girls were recorded with the name Anda between 1943 and 2016. Its highest annual count was 12 in 1955; its best national rank was #3,288 in 1951.

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 Anda?

Anda had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2016, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2016
1 in 459,000
8 of 3,669,531 births
Among girls only
1 in 221,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2016
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
317,942 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Anda 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 2016 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 317,942 children born in 2016 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Anda. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Andas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Anda was born before 1957 — so the typical Anda is around 68 today.

Median birth year
1957
About 68 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
39.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
11.9%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
165
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1950s — 39.2% of all recorded uses (76).

Is Anda 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 1955 (12)
Years since peak
70
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,288
1951

Spellings of Anda

Anda is not the most common spelling — Linda is, with 16.8% against Anda's <0.01%.

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 Anda is used

Across 1910–2025, Anda was most concentrated in Arkansas — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 350,186 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Arkansas1 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. Anda has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Anda around the world

Where Anda 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
    2006–2024
    #5,892
    in 2024
  • France
    2013–2013
    #6,417
    in 2013
  • South Australia
    1952–1970
    #707
    in 1970

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Anda by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#3,288
1951
Peak year
1955
12 that year
First recorded
1943
Last recorded
2016
All-time count
194
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Anda

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

AndeAndyKindaAndeePendaEndaOndaAndoraAndreahAndiaAndryaCandaVrindaAndrraCondaKandaWindaAndreyDondaAndersynIndaAndreiaVendaMonda

Sibling names for Anda

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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