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Ania

#2,544 in 2025Girls' name

Diminutive of Anna

Ania has been given to 3,315 babies in the U.S. since 1968. In 2025 it ranked #2,544 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2006, with 181 recorded.

Babies named Ania, 2025

1 in 48,000

Ania over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ania: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Anna

Russian

What Ania means

Ania is a diminutive of Anna.

Meaning behind the documented name family

Ania is a diminutive of Anna. Anna has more than one origin or interpretation.

Origin, language, and formation

Ania is used in Polish and Welsh. Its origins include Russian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Anna and Anya.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Polish, Ania is pronounced /ˈa.ɲa/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,315 girls were recorded with the name Ania between 1968 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 181 in 2006; its best national rank was #1,272 in 2004.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,220 in 2020 to #2,544 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,296 in 2015 to #2,544 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 Ania?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 48,000
69 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 23,300
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,544
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
33,304 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ania 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 5001%

Put another way: gather 33,304 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ania. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Anias were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ania was born before 2007 — so the typical Ania is around 18 today.

Median birth year
2007
About 18 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
43.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
77.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
3,315
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 43.0% of all recorded uses (1,425).

Is Ania 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
+69
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−324
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−248
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.85×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
38.1%
Peak was 2006 (181)
Years since peak
19
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
10.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,272
2004

Spellings of Ania

Ania is not the most common spelling — Anna is, with 12.9% against Ania'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 Ania is used

Across 2016–2025, Ania was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 16,667 girls, against 1 in 26,169 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in 100,000).

16 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 16,667
  2. 2California1 in 20,000
  3. 3Texas1 in 20,000
  4. 4Florida1 in 33,333
  5. 5Illinois1 in 33,333
  6. 6Ohio1 in 33,333
  7. 7Arizona1 in 50,000
  8. 8Georgia1 in 50,000

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.

Ania around the world

Where Ania 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
    1996–2025
    #2,440
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2010–2013
    #816
    in 2013
  • Ireland
    2024–2024
    #898
    in 2024
  • France
    1946–2025
    #479
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #1,968
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2000–2010
    #801
    in 2010

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

Notable people named Ania

People whose public names include Ania, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Ania in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Ania. Linked forms have their own page here.

AnaNiaAmiaAneaAnieAnnaAnyaEniaAninaAniyaAnniaRaniaAnnía

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Ania by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,544
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 324
Best rank ever
#1,272
2004
Peak year
2006
181 that year
First recorded
1968
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,315
Count in 2025
69

Names similar to Ania

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

AniahAniAnisaAniseAnishaAnicaRaniaJaniaVaniaXeniaAnijahAnikaAninaAniyaAnilaAnistonSaniaAnielaZeniaAnissaJuniaAnisahAniylaZinnia

Names with a curve like Ania

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Ania, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

CiannaRyleyLluviaSheylaMackennaJanayaSamariaCianaOlyviaJayaLexyJailyn

Sibling names for Ania

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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