An
#3,975 for girls in 2025, 36 births · #4,139 for boys in 2025, 25 births
Given to girls 55.3% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2015 · 47 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,393since 1946
An over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #3,975 | 36 | #4,139 | 25 |
| 2024 | #4,387 | 32 | #4,321 | 24 |
| 2023 | #3,763 | 40 | #4,610 | 22 |
| 2022 | #4,295 | 33 | #4,701 | 21 |
| 2021 | #5,237 | 24 | #5,110 | 18 |
| 2020 | #4,005 | 35 | #3,918 | 26 |
| 2019 | #4,437 | 31 | #3,794 | 28 |
| 2018 | #3,677 | 41 | #3,607 | 30 |
| 2017 | #4,576 | 30 | #3,678 | 29 |
| 2016 | #3,411 | 46 | #3,883 | 27 |
| 2015 | #3,389 | 47 | #4,179 | 24 |
| 2014 | #4,350 | 33 | #3,371 | 32 |
| 2013 | #4,336 | 33 | #3,864 | 26 |
| 2012 | #4,707 | 30 | #5,256 | 17 |
| 2011 | #4,915 | 28 | #4,221 | 23 |
| 2010 | #3,409 | 47 | #5,478 | 16 |
| 2009 | #4,931 | 29 | #5,554 | 16 |
| 2008 | #5,013 | 29 | #5,067 | 18 |
| 2007 | #4,567 | 32 | #3,893 | 26 |
| 2006 | #5,709 | 23 | #5,072 | 17 |
| 2005 | #4,581 | 29 | #3,615 | 26 |
| 2004 | #3,819 | 37 | #4,129 | 21 |
| 2003 | #4,307 | 30 | #3,443 | 26 |
| 2002 | #5,444 | 21 | #3,554 | 24 |
| 2001 | #4,834 | 24 | #4,476 | 17 |
| 2000 | #4,791 | 24 | #3,423 | 24 |
| 1999 | #3,639 | 33 | #4,341 | 16 |
| 1998 | #4,796 | 22 | #2,782 | 29 |
| 1997 | #5,010 | 20 | #2,502 | 32 |
| 1996 | #4,583 | 22 | #3,021 | 24 |
| 1995 | #4,846 | 20 | #3,020 | 23 |
| 1994 | #4,687 | 21 | #2,556 | 29 |
| 1993 | #3,776 | 28 | #2,943 | 23 |
| 1992 | #3,503 | 31 | #2,532 | 28 |
| 1991 | #3,443 | 31 | #2,753 | 24 |
| 1990 | #5,060 | 18 | #2,952 | 21 |
| 1989 | #3,784 | 26 | #2,902 | 21 |
| 1988 | #4,172 | 21 | #2,367 | 25 |
| 1987 | #3,624 | 24 | #2,272 | 25 |
| 1986 | #4,186 | 19 | #2,360 | 23 |
| 1985 | #3,621 | 23 | #1,975 | 29 |
| 1984 | #3,527 | 23 | #2,098 | 25 |
| 1983 | #3,555 | 22 | #2,085 | 25 |
| 1982 | #4,716 | 15 | #2,166 | 24 |
| 1981 | #4,532 | 16 | #2,779 | 16 |
| 1980 | #6,319 | 10 | #2,965 | 15 |
| 1979 | #7,313 | 8 | #2,897 | 15 |
| 1978 | #6,385 | 9 | #4,157 | 8 |
| 1977 | #6,892 | 8 | #4,164 | 8 |
| 1976 | #6,048 | 9 | #4,012 | 8 |
| 1975 | #4,854 | 12 | #4,309 | 7 |
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| 1969 | #7,471 | 5 | — | |
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| 1967 | #6,804 | 5 | — | |
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| 1960 | #5,696 | 6 | — | |
| 1959 | #4,625 | 8 | — | |
| 1958 | #6,103 | 5 | — | |
| 1957 | #3,930 | 10 | — | |
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| 1955 | #4,740 | 7 | — | |
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| 1951 | #4,833 | 6 | — | |
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| 1946 | #4,417 | 6 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named An! It came in at #4,417, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1947–1950, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
See more about An
- 412 spots since 2024 (#4,387 → #3,975)
- 30 spots since 2020 (#4,005 → #3,975)
- 586 spots since 2015 (#3,389 → #3,975)
- Debuted 1946
- Peaked 2015 at #3,389 (47 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 37,821 girls born in 2010 were named An (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 44,646 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #3,389 in 2015, was only 1 in 37,981 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 26.3% of all girls named An (366) were born in this decade
- Mostly boys until 2002, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 6 | #4,417 (1946) | #4,417 |
| 1950s | 36 | #3,930 (1957) | #4,846 |
| 1960s | 16 | #5,696 (1960) | #6,657 |
| 1970s | 46 | #4,854 (1975) | #6,298 |
| 1980s | 199 | #3,527 (1984) | #4,204 |
| 1990s | 246 | #3,443 (1991) | #4,334 |
| 2000s | 278 | #3,819 (2004) | #4,800 |
| 2010s | 366 | #3,389 (2015) | #4,121 |
| 2020s | 200 | #3,763 (2023) | #4,277 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
An in 1946
Top girls' names in 1946
More about 1946
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1,571,305 girls got a published name in 1946; 1 in 261,884 of them was named An, which outranked 22.3% of the 5,686 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).