Anijah
#6,567 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Anijah has been given to 1,392 babies in the U.S. since 1994. In 2025 it ranked #6,567 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2010, with 104 recorded.
Babies named Anijah, 2025
1 in 195,000
Anijah 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Anijah?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 195,000
- 17 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 94,500
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #6,567
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 135,172 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Anijah 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 135,172 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Anijah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Anijahs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Anijah was born before 2008 — so the typical Anijah is around 17 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 58.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 91.6%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,392
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 58.0% of all recorded uses (807).
Is Anijah 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
- −150
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −229
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −2,067
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.55×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 16.3%
- Peak was 2010 (104)
- Years since peak
- 15
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 18.8% average annual change
Spellings of Anijah
Anijah is not the most common spelling — Anita is, with 41.0% against Anijah's 0.27%.
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 Anijah is used
Across 1910–2025, Anijah was most concentrated in Connecticut — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 239,592 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Connecticut1 in 100,000
- 2Florida1 in 100,000
- 3Georgia1 in 100,000
- 4Illinois1 in 100,000
- 5Louisiana1 in 100,000
- 6Mississippi1 in 100,000
- 7New Jersey1 in 100,000
- 8Alabama1 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. Anijah has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Anijah by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Anijah
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Anijah
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.