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Anahi vs Anaiyah

American parents have registered 19,390 Anahis since 1880, against 1,646 Anaiyahs. Anahi is still ahead, with 623 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Anahi Anaiyah

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 2018, when Anahi had 497 and Anaiyah had 89.

Side by side

  Anahi Anaiyah
Total US births 19,3901,646
Most in one year 1,142103
Babies in 2025 62358
Estimated living today 19,0001,600
Median age today 1712
Peak year 20062010
Best rank 290th girls1,942nd girls
Rank in 2025 482nd2,895th
First recorded 19761998
Girls / boys 19,359 / 311,646 / 0

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 Anaiyahs are over 12. That is 5 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 Anahi Anaiyah
England and Wales 22320

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: Anahi and Anaiyah.