Anaya

Anaya is the 1,474th most common surname in the United States, shared by 23,605 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 12,700.

By the numbers

People: 23,605
Rank: 1,474th
How common: 1 in 12,700
Per 100,000: 7.9

Where the name comes from

Origin Spanish

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

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Anaya described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Hispanic or Latino 92.2%
White, not Hispanic 6.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.4%
Black, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Anaya

Elena Anaya (born 1975)Spanish actress
Carlos Anaya (1777–1862)politician and historian
Rudolfo Anaya (1937–2020)American Chicano novelist, poet
James Anaya (born 1960)human rights professor

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

Surnames like Anaya

Anand

Also a first name

Anaya has been given to 17,997 American babies as a first name since 1978, peaking in 2025. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.