Ane
Ane is a girl's name that peaked in 1960, when it was the 3,920th most popular in the United States. It has not appeared in the national data since 2019. About 270 Anes are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 32.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Ane
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 290
- Estimated living today
- 270
- Median age today
- 32
- Peak year
- 1960
- Best rank
- 3,920th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1915
How old the living Anes are
born that year still alive today
Of the 290 babies given the name since 1915, about 270 are alive — 91 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1993 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.
Notable Anes
- Ane Brun (born 1976)Norwegian singer-songwriter
- Ane Dahl Torp (born 1975)Norwegian actress
- Ane Santesteban (born 1990)Spanish cyclist
- Ane Halsboe-Jørgensen (born 1983)Danish politician
- Ane Gabarain (born 1963)Spanish-Basque actress
People named Ane with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Names of 1960
The most popular girls’ names the year Ane peaked:
Ane elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spain girls | Ane | 4,684 | 89th |
| Norway girls | Ane | 4,540 | 40th |
| England and Wales girls | Ane | 15 | 4,001st |
| Switzerland girls | Ane | 6 | 1,792nd |
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.
Ane: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Ane | 4 | 0.000% | 862nd |
| French girls | Switzerland | Ane | 2 | 0.000% | 786th |
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.
Ane: rank by region
In 2024, Ane was among the 10 most common names in 2 regions of Spain. It has come first somewhere in 17 different years.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Comunidad Foral de Navarra | Ane | 3 | 34 |
| País Vasco | Ane | 2 | 115 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Spain after 10 names – 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.
Ane 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.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Ane | 6 | 10 |
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 Ane lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 12,967 women called Ane 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
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gipuzkoa | Ane | 4,303 | 11.481 | 5 |
| Bizkaia | Ane | 5,008 | 8.315 | 13 |
| Araba/Álava | Ane | 1,081 | 6.229 | 17 |
| Navarra | Ane | 1,286 | 3.727 | 44 |
| Rioja, La | Ane | 97 | 0.586 | 235 |
| Cantabria | Ane | 123 | 0.402 | 291 |
Listed in 40 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 12 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Ane against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.