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 1980
Top girls' names in 1980
Top boys' names in 1980
More about 1980
girls
1,660,307 girls got a published name in 1980; 1 in 166,031 of them was named An, which outranked 48.0% of the 12,161 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #5,912Yolande11
- #5,912Youlanda11
- #5,912Zarah11
- #6,319An10
- #6,319Adella10
- #6,319Adi10
- #6,319Adrena10
- #6,789Abeni9
- #6,789Adair9
- #6,789Addy9
Tied with 469 names at #6,319; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,783,951 boys got a published name in 1980; 1 in 118,930 of them was named An, which outranked 59.3% of the 7,293 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.6% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,831Wyman16
- #2,831Yehoshua16
- #2,831Yolanda16
- #2,965An15
- #2,965Agustine15
- #2,965Albino15
- #2,965Amaury15
- #3,098Alison14
- #3,098Allie14
- #3,098Antionne14
Tied with 132 names at #2,965; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.