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Anastasia vs Anayeli

American parents have registered 57,163 Anastasias since 1880, against 2,635 Anayelis. Anastasia is still ahead, with 1,832 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Anastasia Anayeli

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 2001, when Anastasia had 1,028 and Anayeli had 188.

Side by side

  Anastasia Anayeli
Total US births 57,1632,635
Most in one year 1,905188
Babies in 2025 1,83270
Estimated living today 53,0002,600
Median age today 1717
Peak year 20182001
Best rank 147th girls1,122nd girls
Rank in 2025 163rd2,514th
First recorded 18801986
Girls / boys 57,140 / 232,635 / 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: Anastasia and Anayeli.