Ana

Popularity, 1880–2025

girls named Ana boys named Ana

By the numbers

Total US births

111,960

Estimated living today

106,000

Median age today

29

Peak year

1991

Best rank

119th

Rank in 2025

245th

First recorded

1880

Girls / boys

111,359 / 601

How old the living Anas are

born that year still alive today

Of the 111,960 babies given the name since 1880, about 106,000 are alive — 95 in every hundred. Roughly 26,000 of them are children and 4,700 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1996 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where the name comes from

From various languages including Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian, Bulgarian, Serbo-Croatian, Slovene, and mk, all derivedsometimes via Latin Anna in the Vulgatefrom Koine Greek Ἄννα (“Anna”), chiefly in reference to St Anne the apocryphal mother of Mary mother of Jesus but appearing in the New Testament in reference to Anna the Prophetess, from Hebrew חַנָּה (“Hannah”), from חַנָּה (“grace, gracious, graced with child”). As an Oregonian river, named for Ana Byars, daughter of the surveyor W.H. Byars.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Notable Anas

• Ana Bolena (1501–1536)second wife of Henry VIII of England
• Ana Mena (born 1997)Spanish singer-songwriter, actress and model
• Ana Brnabić (born 1975)President of the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia
• Ana Ivanovic (born 1987)Serbian tennis player
• Ana de Armas (born 1988)Cuban actress
• Ana Blandiana (born 1942)Romanian poet, essayist, and political figure
• Ana Aslan (1897–1988)Romanian biologist and physician
• Ana Pauker (1893–1960)Romanian politician

People named Ana with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Ana is most common

• CA29,459
• TX23,161
• NY9,653
• FL6,205
• IL4,385
• AZ3,903
• NJ2,947
• GA2,075
• NC1,960
• MA1,688

Relative to how many babies each state records, Ana is most concentrated in Arizona (2.9×), Texas (2.8×), California (2.7×), Nevada (1.8×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1991

The most popular girls’ names the year Ana peaked:

• Ashley
• Jessica
• Brittany
• Amanda
• Samantha
• Sarah

All the names of 1991

Ana elsewhere

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Ana: births by region

Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.

By canton, Ana is most concentrated in Geneva, where 0.15% of children were given it – 156 of them.

Ana: rank by region

In 2025, Ana was given 5 times or more in 3 regions of Belgium.

In 2019, Ana was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Spain.

In 2025, Ana was given 2 times or more in 2 regions of Poland.

In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Ana appears in the lists for Province of Namur (68th), Brussels-Capital Region (120th), Province of West Flanders (186th), Province of East Flanders (250th) and Province of Antwerp (276th).

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Spain after 10 names, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.

Ana by city

One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.

Ana among the living

How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.

A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.

Where Ana lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 236,862 women called Ana were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.

Women: the provinces where it is densest

Listed in 52 of Spain's 52 provinces. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.

Related names

• Anastasia
• Anahi
• Anaya
• Anabel
• Anais
• Anabelle
• Analia
• Anabella
• Anakin
• Anastacia
• Analise
• Ananya

Ana against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

• Ana vs Anna
• Ana vs Anastasia
• Ana vs Anahi
• Ana vs Anaya
• Ana vs Anabel
• Ana vs Anais

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