Anay
Last seen for girls in 2017 at #14,124 · #2,641 for boys in 2025, 49 births
Given to boys 62.6% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2017 · 102 births
- Debut · boys
- 9 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,287since 2001
Anay 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 | — | #2,641 | 49 | |
| 2024 | — | #2,789 | 46 | |
| 2023 | — | #4,610 | 22 | |
| 2022 | — | #2,717 | 48 | |
| 2021 | — | #3,074 | 39 | |
| 2020 | — | #2,347 | 57 | |
| 2019 | — | #2,292 | 60 | |
| 2018 | — | #1,920 | 77 | |
| 2017 | #14,124 | 6 | #1,582 | 102 |
| 2016 | #10,859 | 9 | #1,763 | 87 |
| 2015 | #11,835 | 8 | #1,870 | 78 |
| 2014 | — | #1,873 | 78 | |
| 2013 | #9,612 | 11 | #1,709 | 86 |
| 2012 | #14,962 | 6 | #1,909 | 75 |
| 2011 | #9,150 | 12 | #1,719 | 86 |
| 2010 | #5,771 | 23 | #2,169 | 61 |
| 2009 | #4,805 | 30 | #2,401 | 53 |
| 2008 | #4,006 | 39 | #3,286 | 34 |
| 2007 | #3,376 | 49 | #3,188 | 35 |
| 2006 | #3,505 | 45 | #3,153 | 34 |
| 2005 | #3,366 | 45 | #4,464 | 19 |
| 2004 | #3,989 | 35 | #4,421 | 19 |
| 2003 | #3,131 | 47 | #4,815 | 16 |
| 2002 | #2,780 | 54 | #4,502 | 17 |
| 2001 | #2,700 | 55 | #6,935 | 9 |
| 2000 | #2,854 | 50 | — | |
| 1999 | #3,048 | 43 | — | |
| 1998 | #3,426 | 35 | — | |
| 1997 | #5,417 | 18 | — | |
| 1996 | #4,453 | 23 | — | |
| 1995 | #5,958 | 15 | — | |
| 1994 | #8,122 | 10 | — | |
| 1993 | #5,419 | 17 | — | |
| 1992 | #5,267 | 18 | — | |
| 1991 | #4,329 | 23 | — | |
| 1990 | #5,549 | 16 | — | |
| 1989 | #8,037 | 9 | — | |
| 1988 | #6,277 | 12 | — | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Anay! It came in at #6,935, and was given to 9 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 2001, when fewer than 10 boys a year got the name.
See more about Anay
- 148 spots since 2024 (#2,789 → #2,641)
- 294 spots since 2020 (#2,347 → #2,641)
- 771 spots since 2015 (#1,870 → #2,641)
- Debuted 2001
- Peaked 2017 at #1,582 (102 births)
- Births halved by 2021, 4 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 18,147 boys born in 2017 were named Anay (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 34,859 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 61.4% of all boys named Anay (790) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 2008, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 236 | #2,401 (2009) | #4,129 |
| 2010s | 790 | #1,582 (2017) | #1,881 |
| 2020s | 261 | #2,347 (2020) | #3,030 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Anay in 2012
Top girls' names in 2012
Top boys' names in 2012
More about 2012
girls
1,761,053 girls got a published name in 2012; 1 in 293,509 of them was named Anay, which outranked 23.4% of the 19,534 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #13,483Zurisaday7
- #13,483Zyara7
- #13,483Zyrielle7
- #14,962Anay6
- #14,962Aadhira6
- #14,962Aahna6
- #14,962Aalyssa6
- #16,869Aabha5
- #16,869Aadi5
- #16,869Aadison5
Tied with 1,906 names at #14,962; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,896,946 boys got a published name in 2012; 1 in 25,293 of them was named Anay, which outranked 86.6% of the 14,250 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,891Sameer76
- #1,891Uziel76
- #1,891Vito76
- #1,909Anay75
- #1,909Ambrose75
- #1,909Charley75
- #1,909Damarcus75
- #1,923Brendyn74
- #1,923Caius74
- #1,923Deron74
Tied with 13 names at #1,909; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.