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Analiz vs Anastasia

American parents have registered 57,163 Anastasias since 1880, against 783 Analizes. Anastasia is still ahead, with 1,832 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Analiz 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 2011, when Analiz had 42 and Anastasia had 868.

Side by side

  Analiz Anastasia
Total US births 78357,163
Most in one year 441,905
Babies in 2025 241,832
Estimated living today 78053,000
Median age today 1517
Peak year 20082018
Best rank 3,645th girls147th girls
Rank in 2025 5,238th163rd
First recorded 19841880
Girls / boys 783 / 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 Analizes are over 15. That is 2 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: Analiz and Anastasia.