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Aniela

#3,984 in 2025Girls' name

Form of Angela

Aniela has been given to 1,081 babies in the U.S. since 1913. In 2025 it ranked #3,984 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2010, with 52 recorded.

Babies named Aniela, 2025

1 in 92,100

Aniela over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Aniela: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Angela

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Aniela means

Aniela is a form of Angela.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Aniela → Angela. The family’s meaning is “messenger, angel”, recorded in English with the source elements ángelos.

Origin, language, and formation

Aniela is used in Polish.

Aniela comes through Latin Angela and Ancient Greek ἄγγελος.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Angela.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Polish, Aniela is pronounced /aˈɲɛ.la/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,081 girls were recorded with the name Aniela between 1913 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 52 in 2010; its best national rank was #2,525 in 1918.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #4,087 in 2020 to #3,984 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #4,735 in 2015 to #3,984 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 Aniela?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 92,100
36 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 44,600
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#3,984
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
63,832 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Aniela 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 63,832 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Aniela. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Anielas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Aniela was born before 2010 — so the typical Aniela is around 15 today.

Median birth year
2010
About 15 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
34.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
80.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
999
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 34.1% of all recorded uses (369).

Is Aniela 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
+136
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+103
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+751
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.24×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
69.2%
Peak was 2010 (52)
Years since peak
15
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,525
1918

Spellings of Aniela

Aniela is not the most common spelling — Angela is, with 48.2% against Aniela's 0.08%.

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 Aniela is used

Across 1910–2025, Aniela was most concentrated in Illinois — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 381,474 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Illinois1 in 100,000
  2. 2Arizona1 in —
  3. 3California1 in —
  4. 4Connecticut1 in —
  5. 5Florida1 in —
  6. 6Michigan1 in —
  7. 7New Jersey1 in —
  8. 8New 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. Aniela has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Aniela around the world

Where Aniela 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
    1997–2025
    #1,454
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2013–2024
    #790
    in 2024
  • Ireland
    2006–2024
    #736
    in 2024
  • France
    1922–2025
    #3,456
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2005–2022
    #3,322
    in 2022
  • South Australia
    1953–2013
    #818
    in 2013

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.

Aniela by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#3,984
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 103
Best rank ever
#2,525
1918
Peak year
2010
52 that year
First recorded
1913
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,081
Count in 2025
36

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Sibling names for Aniela

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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