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Anibal

#3,127 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Anibal has been given to 3,950 babies in the U.S. since 1914. In 2025 it ranked #3,127 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1990, with 92 recorded.

Babies named Anibal, 2025

1 in 87,200

Anibal over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
025507510018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Anibal: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Anibal means

Anibal is a given name.

The naming story behind Anibal

Wikidata records Anibal as a male given name. The entity identifier is Q19731555, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,928 boys were recorded with the name Anibal between 1914 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 92 in 1990; its best national rank was #911 in 1976.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #3,422 in 2020 to #3,127 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,968 in 2015 to #3,127 in 2025.

In the United States, 22 girls were recorded with the name Anibal between 1977 and 1994. Its highest annual count was 7 in 1992; its best national rank was #9,712 in 1977.

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.

How common is Anibal?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 87,200
38 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 44,900
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,127
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
60,472 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Anibal sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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 60,472 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Anibal. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Anibals were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Anibal was born before 1986 — so the typical Anibal is around 39 today.

Median birth year
1986
About 39 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
16.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
25.5%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
3,752
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 16.4% of all recorded uses (644).

Is Anibal 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
+271
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+295
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−159
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.97×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
41.3%
Peak was 1990 (92)
Years since peak
35
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
30.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#911
1976

Spellings of Anibal

Anibal is not the most common spelling — Danial is, with 53.4% against Anibal's 22.3%.

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 Anibal is used

Across 1910–2025, Anibal was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 14,286 boys, against 1 in 32,556 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

07 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 14,286
  2. 2New Jersey1 in 20,000
  3. 3California1 in 33,333
  4. 4Texas1 in 33,333
  5. 5Connecticut1 in 100,000
  6. 6Florida1 in 100,000
  7. 7Illinois1 in 100,000
  8. 8Massachusetts1 in 100,000

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

Anibal around the world

Where Anibal 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
    1963–1995
    #3,153
    in 1995

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

Notable people named Anibal

People whose public names include Anibal, 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.

Anibal in other languages

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

AnnibaleHannibalAnníbal

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

Anibal by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,127
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 295
Best rank ever
#911
1976
Peak year
1990
92 that year
First recorded
1914
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,928
Count in 2025
38

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#9,712
1977
Peak year
1992
7 that year
First recorded
1977
Last recorded
1994
All-time count
22
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Anibal

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

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Names with a curve like Anibal

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

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Sibling names for Anibal

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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