Anija
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Anija has been given to 331 babies in the U.S. since 1997. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2002, with 30 recorded.
Babies named Anija, 2022
1 in 564,000
Anija 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Anija?
Anija had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2022
- 1 in 564,000
- 6 of 3,385,755 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 273,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2022
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 391,139 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Anija sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2022 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 391,139 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Anija. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Anijas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Anija was born before 2005 — so the typical Anija is around 20 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 77.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 98.5%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 331
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 77.0% of all recorded uses (255).
Is Anija 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
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 2002 (30)
- Years since peak
- 23
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 35.9% average annual change
Spellings of Anija
Anija is not the most common spelling — Anna is, with 41.5% against Anija's 0.02%.
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 Anija is used
Across 1910–2025, Anija was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 483,972 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1Louisiana1 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. Anija has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Anija by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Anija
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Anija
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.