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Anyeli vs Anyla

American parents have registered 2,795 Anylas since 1880, against 673 Anyelis. Anyla is still ahead, with 131 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Anyeli against Anyla, 1880 to 2025 0 50 100 150 200 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Anyeli Anyla

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

Anyla has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1998 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2024, when Anyeli had 76 and Anyla had 151.

Side by side

  Anyeli Anyla
Total US births 6732,795
Most in one year 76166
Babies in 2025 47131
Estimated living today 6702,800
Median age today 69
Peak year 20242019
Best rank 2,389th girls1,357th girls
Rank in 2025 3,296th1,592nd
First recorded 20021998
Girls / boys 673 / 02,795 / 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 Anylas alive today are over 9; half the Anyelis are over 6. That is 3 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.

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