Anela
#2,903 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Anela has been given to 1,793 babies in the U.S. since 1959. In 2025 it ranked #2,903 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2007, with 79 recorded.
Babies named Anela, 2025
1 in 57,200
Anela 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Anela?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 57,200
- 58 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 27,700
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #2,903
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 39,620 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Anela 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 39,620 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Anela. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Anelas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Anela was born before 2009 — so the typical Anela is around 16 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 32.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 77.7%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,793
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 32.9% of all recorded uses (590).
Is Anela 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
- +114
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +1,112
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +754
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.38×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 73.4%
- Peak was 2007 (79)
- Years since peak
- 18
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 20.7% average annual change
Spellings of Anela
Anela is not the most common spelling — Anna is, with 24.1% against Anela's 0.05%.
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 Anela is used
Across 1910–2025, Anela was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 980 girls, against 1 in 70,425 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Hawaii1 in 980
- 2California1 in 50,000
- 3Nevada1 in 100,000
- 4Washington1 in 100,000
- 5Arizona1 in —
- 6Colorado1 in —
- 7Florida1 in —
- 8Missouri1 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. Anela has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Anela around the world
Where Anela 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 & Wales2010–2025#3,705in 2025
- France2002–2025#6,174in 2025
- Canada2006–2023#2,973in 2023
- South Australia1999–2011#840in 2011
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Anela by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Anela
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Anela
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.