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Anais vs Anaiya

American parents have registered 9,331 Anaises since 1880, against 2,240 Anaiyas. Anais is still ahead, with 310 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Anais against Anaiya, 1880 to 2025 0 100 200 300 400 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Anais Anaiya

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

Anais has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1972 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2004, when Anais had 148 and Anaiya had 105.

Side by side

  Anais Anaiya
Total US births 9,3312,240
Most in one year 353130
Babies in 2025 31044
Estimated living today 9,2002,200
Median age today 1716
Peak year 20212006
Best rank 825th girls1,627th girls
Rank in 2025 892nd3,459th
First recorded 19721995
Girls / boys 9,213 / 1182,240 / 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 Anais Anaiya
France 137,720 Anaïs10
England and Wales 2,851851
Ireland 823

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: Anais and Anaiya.