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Any vs Anyia

American parents have registered 895 Anyias since 1880, against 669 Anys. But in 2025 it was Any that was commoner, 11 babies to 8.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Any against Anyia, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Any Anyia

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 62 years in which either name was published, Any for 34 years and Anyia for 28 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Any Anyia
Total US births 669895
Most in one year 2876
Babies in 2025 118
Estimated living today 640890
Median age today 4119
Peak year 19762006
Best rank 2,728th girls2,438th girls
Rank in 2025 8,860th10,917th
First recorded 19631993
Girls / boys 669 / 0895 / 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 Anys alive today are over 41; half the Anyias are over 19. That is 22 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Any and Anyia.