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Anais vs Analee

American parents have registered 9,331 Anaises since 1880, against 2,194 Analees. Anais is still ahead, with 310 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Anais Analee

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

Of the 76 years in which either name was published, Anais for 50 years and Analee for 26 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.

Side by side

  Anais Analee
Total US births 9,3312,194
Most in one year 353116
Babies in 2025 31039
Estimated living today 9,2002,100
Median age today 1714
Peak year 20212011
Best rank 825th girls1,758th girls
Rank in 2025 892nd3,780th
First recorded 19721919
Girls / boys 9,213 / 1182,194 / 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 Anaises alive today are over 17; half the Analees are over 14. That is 3 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.

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