Anela vs Aneta

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Anela Aneta

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

Of the 109 years in which either name was published, Aneta for 65 years and Anela for 44 years. The lead changed hands 9 times.

• 1902–1973 Aneta ahead
• 1974–1983 Anela ahead
• 1984 Aneta ahead
• 1985–1986 Anela ahead
• 1987–1989 Aneta ahead
• 1990 Anela ahead
• 1991–1993 Aneta ahead
• 1994–1995 Anela ahead
• 1996 Aneta ahead
• 1997–2025 Anela ahead

Side by side

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 Anetas alive today are over 49; half the Anelas are over 16. That is 33 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

• Anela Hawaii (187.6×), California (3.0×), Washington (2.2×)
• Aneta Illinois (18.9×)

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.

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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