Anel
#11,932 for girls in 2025, 7 births · Last seen for boys in 2023 at #12,239
Given to girls 87.7% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1974 · 58 births
- Debut · girls
- 11 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,877since 1971
Anel 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 | #11,932 | 7 | — | |
| 2024 | #11,122 | 8 | — | |
| 2023 | #8,486 | 12 | #12,239 | 5 |
| 2022 | #9,056 | 11 | — | |
| 2021 | #11,146 | 8 | — | |
| 2020 | #6,923 | 16 | — | |
| 2019 | #6,414 | 18 | — | |
| 2018 | #7,409 | 15 | — | |
| 2017 | #7,442 | 15 | #12,246 | 5 |
| 2016 | #8,393 | 13 | #12,185 | 5 |
| 2015 | #7,613 | 15 | — | |
| 2014 | #5,456 | 24 | — | |
| 2013 | #6,462 | 19 | #8,789 | 8 |
| 2012 | #10,429 | 10 | #10,770 | 6 |
| 2011 | #10,374 | 10 | #9,600 | 7 |
| 2010 | #7,217 | 17 | #8,139 | 9 |
| 2009 | #3,870 | 40 | #8,310 | 9 |
| 2008 | #4,179 | 37 | #6,763 | 12 |
| 2007 | #3,047 | 57 | #6,622 | 12 |
| 2006 | #3,617 | 43 | #6,094 | 13 |
| 2005 | #3,730 | 39 | #5,034 | 16 |
| 2004 | #3,071 | 50 | #6,138 | 12 |
| 2003 | #2,885 | 53 | #4,276 | 19 |
| 2002 | #2,935 | 50 | #5,395 | 13 |
| 2001 | #3,142 | 44 | #4,476 | 17 |
| 2000 | #3,453 | 38 | #6,316 | 10 |
| 1999 | #3,099 | 42 | #4,762 | 14 |
| 1998 | #2,691 | 50 | #5,466 | 11 |
| 1997 | #2,733 | 45 | #8,110 | 6 |
| 1996 | #2,796 | 43 | #6,496 | 8 |
| 1995 | #2,687 | 45 | #7,792 | 6 |
| 1994 | #2,124 | 64 | #6,372 | 8 |
| 1993 | #2,882 | 41 | #6,816 | 7 |
| 1992 | #2,295 | 57 | — | |
| 1991 | #1,857 | 76 | — | |
| 1990 | #2,289 | 55 | — | |
| 1989 | #2,572 | 44 | #6,941 | 6 |
| 1988 | #2,369 | 46 | — | |
| 1987 | #3,169 | 29 | #5,459 | 7 |
| 1986 | #3,203 | 28 | #5,332 | 7 |
| 1985 | #3,419 | 25 | — | |
| 1984 | #2,625 | 35 | — | |
| 1983 | #2,659 | 33 | — | |
| 1982 | #2,704 | 34 | — | |
| 1981 | #2,723 | 33 | #5,468 | 6 |
| 1980 | #2,651 | 35 | — | |
| 1979 | #2,525 | 36 | — | |
| 1978 | #2,012 | 47 | — | |
| 1977 | #1,901 | 52 | — | |
| 1976 | #2,292 | 36 | — | |
| 1975 | #1,986 | 44 | — | |
| 1974 | #1,616 | 58 | — | |
| 1973 | #2,127 | 37 | — | |
| 1972 | #2,598 | 27 | — | |
| 1971 | #4,810 | 11 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Anel! It came in at #4,810, and was given to 11 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 2024–2025, when fewer than 9 girls a year got the name.
See more about Anel
- 810 spots since 2024 (#11,122 → #11,932)
- 5,009 spots since 2020 (#6,923 → #11,932)
- 4,319 spots since 2015 (#7,613 → #11,932)
- Debuted 1971
- Peaked 1974 at #1,616 (58 births)
- Births halved by 1985, 11 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 24,671 girls born in 1991 were named Anel (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 229,610 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,616 in 1974, was only 1 in 25,302 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 27.6% of all girls named Anel (518) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 348 | #1,616 (1974) | #2,430 |
| 1980s | 342 | #2,369 (1988) | #2,809 |
| 1990s | 518 | #1,857 (1991) | #2,545 |
| 2000s | 451 | #2,885 (2003) | #3,393 |
| 2010s | 156 | #5,456 (2014) | #7,721 |
| 2020s | 62 | #6,923 (2020) | #9,778 |
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.
Anel in 1997
Top girls' names in 1997
Top boys' names in 1997
More about 1997
girls
1,740,710 girls got a published name in 1997; 1 in 38,682 of them was named Anel, which outranked 83.1% of the 16,163 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,695Tajah46
- #2,695Viktoria46
- #2,695Vivica46
- #2,733Anel45
- #2,733Abbigayle45
- #2,733Andrianna45
- #2,733Angelle45
- #2,776Ambrosia44
- #2,776Audrie44
- #2,776Augusta44
Tied with 42 names at #2,733; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,885,140 boys got a published name in 1997; 1 in 314,190 of them was named Anel, which outranked 25.0% of the 10,814 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 15.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #7,281Zoey7
- #7,281Zoran7
- #7,281Zyair7
- #8,110Anel6
- #8,110Aaditya6
- #8,110Aaric6
- #8,110Aashish6
- #9,265Aadam5
- #9,265Aaran5
- #9,265Aarik5
Tied with 1,154 names at #8,110; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.