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Anasofia vs Anaya

American parents have registered 17,997 Anayas since 1880, against 1,010 Anasofias. Anaya is still ahead, with 911 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Anasofia against Anaya, 1880 to 2025 0 250 500 750 1k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Anasofia Anaya

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

Anaya has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1978 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2015, when Anasofia had 80 and Anaya had 789.

Side by side

  Anasofia Anaya
Total US births 1,01017,997
Most in one year 80911
Babies in 2025 43911
Estimated living today 1,00018,000
Median age today 1011
Peak year 20152025
Best rank 2,318th girls336th girls
Rank in 2025 3,517th336th
First recorded 19991978
Girls / boys 1,010 / 017,997 / 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.

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: Anasofia and Anaya.