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Anais vs Anasofia

American parents have registered 9,331 Anaises since 1880, against 1,010 Anasofias. Anais is still ahead, with 310 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Anais Anasofia

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 2015, when Anais had 256 and Anasofia had 80.

Side by side

  Anais Anasofia
Total US births 9,3311,010
Most in one year 35380
Babies in 2025 31043
Estimated living today 9,2001,000
Median age today 1710
Peak year 20212015
Best rank 825th girls2,318th girls
Rank in 2025 892nd3,517th
First recorded 19721999
Girls / boys 9,213 / 1181,010 / 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 Anasofias are over 10. That is 7 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 Anasofia.