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Anaiah vs Anaya

American parents have registered 17,997 Anayas since 1880, against 3,463 Anaiahs. Anaya is still ahead, with 911 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Anaiah against Anaya, 1880 to 2025 0 250 500 750 1k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Anaiah Anaya

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

Anaya has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1978 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1983, when Anaiah had 6 and Anaya had 9.

Side by side

  Anaiah Anaya
Total US births 3,46317,997
Most in one year 318911
Babies in 2025 318911
Estimated living today 3,40018,000
Median age today 1011
Peak year 20252025
Best rank 853rd girls336th girls
Rank in 2025 853rd336th
First recorded 19831978
Girls / boys 3,445 / 1817,997 / 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.

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 Anaiah Anaya
England and Wales 5796,554
France 65 Anaïah2,290
Switzerland 11219
Scotland 6206
Ireland 3119

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: Anaiah and Anaya.