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Anais vs Anamaria

American parents have registered 9,331 Anaises since 1880, against 3,225 Anamarias. Anais is still ahead, with 310 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Anais Anamaria

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 75 years in which either name was published, Anais for 42 years and Anamaria for 33 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Anais Anamaria
Total US births 9,3313,225
Most in one year 35389
Babies in 2025 31027
Estimated living today 9,2003,100
Median age today 1726
Peak year 20212001
Best rank 825th girls1,941st girls
Rank in 2025 892nd4,878th
First recorded 19721930
Girls / boys 9,213 / 1183,225 / 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 Anamarias alive today are over 26; half the Anaises are over 17. That is 9 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 Anais Anamaria
France 137,720 Anaïs55
England and Wales 2,85183
Italy 588947 Ana Maria

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 Anamaria.