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Anel

#12,025 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' name

Variant of Änel

Anel has been given to 2,141 babies in the U.S. since 1971. In 2025 it ranked #12,025 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1991, with 76 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 88% girls, 12% boys all-time.

Babies named Anel, 2025

1 in 474,000

Anel over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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

In 2025, Anel went to 100% girls and 0% boys.

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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.

Anel: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Änel

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Anel means

Anel is a variant of Änel.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Anel is used in Kazakh.

Origin, language, and formation

Anel is used in Albanian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Änel.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,877 girls were recorded with the name Anel between 1971 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 76 in 1991; its best national rank was #1,617 in 1974.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #6,952 in 2020 to #12,025 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #7,650 in 2015 to #12,025 in 2025.

In the United States, 264 boys were recorded with the name Anel between 1981 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 19 in 2003; its best national rank was #4,282 in 2003.

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 Anel?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 474,000
7 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 230,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#12,025
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
328,272 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Anel 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 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Anel. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Anels were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Anel was born before 1994 — so the typical Anel is around 31 today.

Median birth year
1994
About 31 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
27.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
33.6%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,877
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 27.6% of all recorded uses (518).

Is Anel 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
−831
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−5,073
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−4,375
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.47×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
9.2%
Peak was 1991 (76)
Years since peak
34
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
27.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,617
1974

Spellings of Anel

Anel is not the most common spelling — Anna is, with 19.6% against Anel's 0.04%.

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 Anel is used — girls

Across 1910–2025, Anel was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 20,000 girls, against 1 in 40,157 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

05 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 20,000
  2. 2Texas1 in 33,333
  3. 3Illinois1 in 100,000
  4. 4New York1 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. Anel has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Where Anel is used — boys

Across 1910–2025, Anel was most concentrated in Missouri — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 775,065 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Missouri1 in —

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

Anel around the world

Where Anel 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.

  • France
    2016–2025
    #3,417
    in 2025

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Anel by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#12,025
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 5,073
Best rank ever
#1,617
1974
Peak year
1991
76 that year
First recorded
1971
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,877
Count in 2025
7

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#4,282
2003
Peak year
2003
19 that year
First recorded
1981
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
264
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Anel

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

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Sibling names for Anel

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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