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 2015
Top girls' names in 2015
Top boys' names in 2015
More about 2015
girls
1,785,098 girls got a published name in 2015; 1 in 223,137 of them was named Anay, which outranked 38.1% of the 19,130 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #10,866Zuhra9
- #10,866Zuree9
- #10,866Zyia9
- #11,835Anay8
- #11,835Aadhira8
- #11,835Aakriti8
- #11,835Aalayiah8
- #13,006Aabha7
- #13,006Aadvika7
- #13,006Aaila7
Tied with 1,170 names at #11,835; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,916,743 boys got a published name in 2015; 1 in 24,574 of them was named Anay, which outranked 86.7% of the 14,059 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,853Orin79
- #1,853Raylon79
- #1,853Sire79
- #1,870Anay78
- #1,870Aahil78
- #1,870Amen78
- #1,870Arvin78
- #1,895Ayman77
- #1,895Caeden77
- #1,895Coltyn77
Tied with 24 names at #1,870; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.