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Aneira

#7,165 in 2025Girls' name

Snow

Aneira has been given to 145 babies in the U.S. since 2008. In 2025 it ranked #7,165 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2015, with 15 recorded.

Babies named Aneira, 2025

1 in 221,000

Aneira over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05101518801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Aneira: meaning, origin, and history

Snow

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Aneira means

Aneira means “snow”.

Origin, language, and formation

Aneira is used in Welsh.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Aneirin.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Welsh, Aneira is pronounced /anˈei̯ra/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 145 girls were recorded with the name Aneira between 2008 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 15 in 2015; its best national rank was #7,165 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #15,291 in 2020 to #7,165 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #7,649 in 2015 to #7,165 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 Aneira?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 221,000
15 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 107,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#7,165
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
153,194 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Aneira 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 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 153,194 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Aneira. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Aneiras were born

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

Median birth year
2018
About 7 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
52.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
145
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 52.4% of all recorded uses (76).

Is Aneira 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
+840
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+8,126
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+484
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.00×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2015 (15)
Years since peak
10
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
31.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#7,165
2025

Spellings of Aneira

Aneira is not the most common spelling — Anita is, with 50.5% against Aneira's 0.03%.

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.

Aneira around the world

Where Aneira 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
    1998–2025
    #1,584
    in 2025
  • South Australia
    1989–1989
    #692
    in 1989

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Aneira by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#7,165
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 8,126
Best rank ever
#7,165
2025
Peak year
2015
15 that year
First recorded
2008
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
145
Count in 2025
15

Names similar to Aneira

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

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Sibling names for Aneira

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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