Anh
#6,116 for girls in 2025, 19 births · #8,243 for boys in 2025, 9 births
Given to girls 68.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1984 · 67 births
- Debut · girls
- 10 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,581since 1975
Anh 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 | #6,116 | 19 | #8,243 | 9 |
| 2024 | #6,167 | 19 | #7,765 | 10 |
| 2023 | #6,409 | 18 | #5,927 | 15 |
| 2022 | #5,465 | 23 | #12,330 | 5 |
| 2021 | #5,748 | 21 | #6,698 | 12 |
| 2020 | #5,487 | 22 | #7,502 | 10 |
| 2019 | #7,342 | 15 | #9,756 | 7 |
| 2018 | #4,662 | 29 | #8,819 | 8 |
| 2017 | #7,442 | 15 | #6,060 | 14 |
| 2016 | #4,423 | 32 | #4,943 | 19 |
| 2015 | #4,584 | 30 | #5,289 | 17 |
| 2014 | #5,310 | 25 | #7,048 | 11 |
| 2013 | #7,031 | 17 | #6,603 | 12 |
| 2012 | #4,047 | 37 | #10,770 | 6 |
| 2011 | #5,728 | 23 | #10,808 | 6 |
| 2010 | #4,860 | 29 | #12,231 | 5 |
| 2009 | #4,269 | 35 | #6,802 | 12 |
| 2008 | #4,360 | 35 | #7,698 | 10 |
| 2007 | #5,097 | 28 | #12,367 | 5 |
| 2006 | #4,811 | 29 | #6,094 | 13 |
| 2005 | #5,600 | 22 | — | |
| 2004 | #4,287 | 32 | #6,976 | 10 |
| 2003 | #3,347 | 43 | #5,877 | 12 |
| 2002 | #4,179 | 30 | #9,392 | 6 |
| 2001 | #4,321 | 28 | #8,339 | 7 |
| 2000 | #3,983 | 31 | #5,588 | 12 |
| 1999 | #4,088 | 28 | #5,317 | 12 |
| 1998 | #4,955 | 21 | #6,314 | 9 |
| 1997 | #4,660 | 22 | #5,642 | 10 |
| 1996 | #3,302 | 35 | #4,396 | 14 |
| 1995 | #4,348 | 23 | #5,124 | 11 |
| 1994 | #3,448 | 32 | #4,803 | 12 |
| 1993 | #2,990 | 39 | #2,943 | 23 |
| 1992 | #3,144 | 36 | #4,114 | 14 |
| 1991 | #3,443 | 31 | #6,519 | 7 |
| 1990 | #2,850 | 40 | #2,488 | 27 |
| 1989 | #2,527 | 45 | #2,545 | 25 |
| 1988 | #2,931 | 35 | #2,305 | 26 |
| 1987 | #2,434 | 42 | #2,942 | 17 |
| 1986 | #2,344 | 43 | #2,161 | 26 |
| 1985 | #1,997 | 54 | #1,794 | 33 |
| 1984 | #1,633 | 67 | #1,979 | 27 |
| 1983 | #1,798 | 59 | #1,534 | 39 |
| 1982 | #1,922 | 55 | #1,929 | 28 |
| 1981 | #1,767 | 63 | #1,942 | 28 |
| 1980 | #1,981 | 53 | #2,367 | 21 |
| 1979 | #3,078 | 27 | #3,357 | 12 |
| 1978 | #4,459 | 15 | #3,614 | 10 |
| 1977 | #6,892 | 8 | #3,037 | 13 |
| 1976 | #5,215 | 11 | #2,946 | 13 |
| 1975 | #5,516 | 10 | #5,464 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Anh! It came in at #5,516, and was given to 10 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1975–1977, when fewer than 12 girls a year got the name.
See more about Anh
- 51 spots since 2024 (#6,167 → #6,116)
- 629 spots since 2020 (#5,487 → #6,116)
- 1,532 spots since 2015 (#4,584 → #6,116)
- Debuted 1975
- Peaked 1984 at #1,633 (67 births)
- Births halved by 1991, 7 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 25,132 girls born in 1984 were named Anh (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 84,593 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 32.6% of all girls named Anh (516) were born in this decade
- Mostly boys until 1977, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 71 | #3,078 (1979) | #5,032 |
| 1980s | 516 | #1,633 (1984) | #2,133 |
| 1990s | 307 | #2,850 (1990) | #3,723 |
| 2000s | 313 | #3,347 (2003) | #4,425 |
| 2010s | 252 | #4,047 (2012) | #5,543 |
| 2020s | 122 | #5,465 (2022) | #5,899 |
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.
Anh in 1987
Top girls' names in 1987
Top boys' names in 1987
More about 1987
girls
1,738,632 girls got a published name in 1987; 1 in 41,396 of them was named Anh, which outranked 81.6% of the 13,263 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 18.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,398Teena43
- #2,398Trudy43
- #2,398Tuesday43
- #2,434Anh42
- #2,434Allysa42
- #2,434Andi42
- #2,434Angelic42
- #2,493Ambria41
- #2,493Angelika41
- #2,493Anneliese41
Tied with 58 names at #2,434; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,866,984 boys got a published name in 1987; 1 in 109,823 of them was named Anh, which outranked 63.9% of the 8,152 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 21.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,838Wilber18
- #2,838Wilford18
- #2,838Zeb18
- #2,942Anh17
- #2,942Abran17
- #2,942Adarius17
- #2,942Addam17
- #3,072Abimael16
- #3,072Abrahan16
- #3,072Aden16
Tied with 129 names at #2,942; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.