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Anabia vs Anahi

American parents have registered 19,390 Anahis since 1880, against 794 Anabias. Anahi is still ahead, with 623 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Anabia against Anahi, 1880 to 2025 0 300 600 900 1.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Anabia Anahi

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Anahi has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1976 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2019, when Anabia had 86 and Anahi had 451.

Side by side

  Anabia Anahi
Total US births 79419,390
Most in one year 991,142
Babies in 2025 99623
Estimated living today 79019,000
Median age today 617
Peak year 20252006
Best rank 1,942nd girls290th girls
Rank in 2025 1,942nd482nd
First recorded 20091976
Girls / boys 794 / 019,359 / 31

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Anahis alive today are over 17; half the Anabias are over 6. That is 11 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Anabia Anahi
England and Wales 1,11322
France 115180

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Anabia and Anahi.