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Anniston

#1,525 in 2025Girls' name

Place name used as a given name; older meaning unconfirmed

Anniston has been given to 3,660 babies in the U.S. since 1996. In 2025 it ranked #1,525 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2014, with 302 recorded.

Babies named Anniston, 2025

1 in 23,900

Anniston over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Anniston: meaning, origin, and history

Place name used as a given name; older meaning unconfirmed

place names

What Anniston means

Anniston comes from a place name.

Origin, language, and formation

Anniston is used in English. Its origins include place names.

Anniston is a modern formation.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Anniston is pronounced /ˈænɪstən/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,660 girls were recorded with the name Anniston between 1996 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 302 in 2014; its best national rank was #898 in 2014.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,390 in 2020 to #1,525 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,039 in 2015 to #1,525 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 Anniston?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 23,900
139 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 11,600
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,525
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
16,533 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Anniston 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 5002%

Put another way: gather 16,533 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Anniston. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Annistons were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Anniston was born before 2016 — so the typical Anniston is around 9 today.

Median birth year
2016
About 9 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
60.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
98.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
3,660
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Choose a decade

2010s — 60.3% of all recorded uses (2,207).

Is Anniston 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
−140
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−135
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−486
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.54×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
46.0%
Peak was 2014 (302)
Years since peak
11
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#898
2014

Spellings of Anniston

Anniston is the most-used spelling, taking 41.3% of the 8,852 babies given a near-identical spelling.

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 Anniston is used

Across 2016–2025, Anniston was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 1,282 girls, against 1 in 6,294 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in 100,000).

178 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Mississippi1 in 1,282
  2. 2Kentucky1 in 1,333
  3. 3Arkansas1 in 1,786
  4. 4Tennessee1 in 1,786
  5. 5Louisiana1 in 1,887
  6. 6Georgia1 in 2,564
  7. 7Alabama1 in 2,703
  8. 8Missouri1 in 3,846

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.

Anniston around the world

Where Anniston 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.

  • Canada
    2014–2021
    #3,354
    in 2021

Popularity data from Statistics Canada. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Anniston by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,525
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 135
Best rank ever
#898
2014
Peak year
2014
302 that year
First recorded
1996
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,660
Count in 2025
139

Names similar to Anniston

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

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Names with a curve like Anniston

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

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Sibling names for Anniston

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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