Anai
#4,661 for girls in 2025, 29 births
- Peak · girls
- 2001 · 138 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 2,327since 1984
Anai over time
Rank among girls' names. Anai has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #4,661 | 29 |
| 2024 | #5,615 | 22 |
| 2023 | #5,390 | 23 |
| 2022 | #3,416 | 46 |
| 2021 | #4,167 | 34 |
| 2020 | #4,169 | 33 |
| 2019 | #4,546 | 30 |
| 2018 | #7,762 | 14 |
| 2017 | #4,576 | 30 |
| 2016 | #4,531 | 31 |
| 2015 | #4,144 | 35 |
| 2014 | #3,925 | 38 |
| 2013 | #3,367 | 47 |
| 2012 | #3,915 | 39 |
| 2011 | #3,407 | 47 |
| 2010 | #2,781 | 63 |
| 2009 | #2,425 | 79 |
| 2008 | #2,004 | 104 |
| 2007 | #1,868 | 112 |
| 2006 | #1,639 | 129 |
| 2005 | #1,500 | 139 |
| 2004 | #1,756 | 109 |
| 2003 | #1,652 | 116 |
| 2002 | #1,606 | 115 |
| 2001 | #1,378 | 138 |
| 2000 | #1,649 | 107 |
| 1999 | #1,893 | 83 |
| 1998 | #1,899 | 80 |
| 1997 | #2,309 | 58 |
| 1996 | #2,314 | 57 |
| 1995 | #2,394 | 54 |
| 1994 | #2,255 | 58 |
| 1993 | #2,489 | 50 |
| 1992 | #2,733 | 44 |
| 1991 | #2,886 | 40 |
| 1990 | #2,957 | 38 |
| 1989 | #4,121 | 23 |
| 1988 | #5,895 | 13 |
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| 1986 | #9,545 | 6 |
| 1985 | #7,563 | 8 |
| 1984 | #9,144 | 6 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Anai! It came in at #9,144, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1987, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Anai is popular in 2008
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Florida#1,185 · 1 in 7,826
- California#1,195 · 1 in 8,494
- North Carolina#1,260 · 1 in 8,013
- Texas#1,589 · 1 in 11,980
Best ever in a state: #536 in Oregon, 2005.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Florida | #1,185 | 11 | 1 in 7,826 |
| California | #1,195 | 27 | 1 in 8,494 |
| North Carolina | #1,260 | 6 | 1 in 8,013 |
| Texas | #1,589 | 14 | 1 in 11,980 |
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See more about Anai
- 954 spots since 2024 (#5,615 → #4,661)
- 492 spots since 2020 (#4,169 → #4,661)
- 517 spots since 2015 (#4,144 → #4,661)
- Debuted 1984
- Peaked 2001 at #1,378 (138 births)
- Births halved by 2010, 9 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 13,048 girls born in 2001 were named Anai (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 55,423 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 49.3% of all girls named Anai (1,148) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 56 | #4,121 (1989) | #7,254 |
| 1990s | 562 | #1,893 (1999) | #2,413 |
| 2000s | 1,148 | #1,378 (2001) | #1,748 |
| 2010s | 374 | #2,781 (2010) | #4,295 |
| 2020s | 187 | #3,416 (2022) | #4,570 |
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.
Anai in 2008
Top girls' names in 2008
More about 2008
girls
1,890,938 girls got a published name in 2008; 1 in 18,182 of them was named Anai, which outranked 90.2% of the 20,482 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,990Shanya105
- #1,990Tahlia105
- #1,990Ysabella105
- #2,004Anai104
- #2,004Aaniyah104
- #2,004Adysen104
- #2,004Alona104
- #2,020Anyah103
- #2,020Clementine103
- #2,020Georgina103
Tied with 15 names at #2,004; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.