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Aniello vs Aniya

American parents have registered 18,085 Aniyas since 1880, against 587 Aniellos. Aniya is still ahead, with 226 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Aniello against Aniya, 1880 to 2025 0 400 800 1.2k 1.6k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Aniello Aniya

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 94 years in which either name was published, Aniello for 54 years and Aniya for 40 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.

Side by side

  Aniello Aniya
Total US births 58718,085
Most in one year 221,271
Babies in 2025 under 5226
Estimated living today 24018,000
Median age today 4317
Peak year 19162007
Best rank 1,505th boys267th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked1,071st
First recorded 19101979
Girls / boys 0 / 58718,085 / 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.

Which name is older

Half of the Aniellos alive today are over 43; half the Aniyas are over 17. That is 26 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 Aniello Aniya
England and Wales 3611
France 5155

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: Aniello and Aniya.