Anniston
Anniston reached its high-water mark in 2014 at number 898, and has been recorded 3,660 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 1,525th. About 3,600 Annistons are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 9.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Anniston
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 3,660
- Estimated living today
- 3,600
- Median age today
- 9
- Peak year
- 2014
- Best rank
- 898th
- Rank in 2025
- 1,525th
- First recorded
- 1996
How old the living Annistons are
born that year still alive today
Of the 3,660 babies given the name since 1996, about 3,600 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 3,300 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2016 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
Origin a place name
The city in Alabama, originally Woodstock, was renamed by town officials in 1873 (after realizing there was another village named Woodstock in central Alabama) in honor of Annie Eliza Scott Tyler (1838–1914), daughter-in-law of Daniel Tyler, one of the two organizers of the Woodstock Iron Company, which started the then planned community. Equivalent to (“Annie’s town”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Where Anniston is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Anniston is most concentrated in Tennessee (5.5×), Georgia (5.2×), Mississippi (5.0×), Kentucky (4.3×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2014
The most popular girls’ names the year Anniston peaked:
Related names
Anniston 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.