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Anaiza vs Anastasia

American parents have registered 57,163 Anastasias since 1880, against 233 Anaizas. Anastasia is still ahead, with 1,832 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Anaiza against Anastasia, 1880 to 2025 0 500 1k 1.5k 2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Anaiza Anastasia

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

Anastasia has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1992, when Anaiza had 21 and Anastasia had 741.

Side by side

  Anaiza Anastasia
Total US births 23357,163
Most in one year 401,905
Babies in 2025 401,832
Estimated living today 23053,000
Median age today 517
Peak year 20252018
Best rank 3,712th girls147th girls
Rank in 2025 3,712th163rd
First recorded 19921880
Girls / boys 233 / 057,140 / 23

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 Anastasias alive today are over 17; half the Anaizas are over 5. That is 12 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 Anaiza Anastasia
France 15 Anaïza9,090
England and Wales 1515,694
Ireland 3723

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: Anaiza and Anastasia.