Anira

#7,168 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning not yet documented

Anira has been given to 203 babies in the U.S. since 2002. In 2025 it ranked #7,168 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 18 recorded.

Babies named Anira, 2025

1 in 221,000

Anira over time, 1880–2025

Girls
0510152018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 221,000
15 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 107,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#7,168
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
153,194 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Anira 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 153,194 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Anira. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Aniras were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Anira was born before 2018 — so the typical Anira is around 7 today.

Median birth year
2018
About 7 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
43.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
203
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 43.3% of all recorded uses (88).

Is Anira 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
−510
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+847
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+4,756
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.88×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
83.3%
Peak was 2023 (18)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#6,438
2023

Spellings of Anira

Anira is not the most common spelling — Anna is, with 22.7% against Anira's <0.01%.

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.

Anira around the world

Where Anira 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
    2017–2023
    #5,688
    in 2023

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Anira by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#7,168
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 847
Best rank ever
#6,438
2023
Peak year
2023
18 that year
First recorded
2002
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
203
Count in 2025
15

Names similar to Anira

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Sibling names for Anira

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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