Anijah

#6,546 for girls in 2025, 17 births

Peak · girls
2005 · 103 births
Debut · girls
6 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
1,392
since 1994

Anijah over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Anijah has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020202006peak #1,878, 2005girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

Show data table
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rankbirths
2025#6,54617
2024#6,39418
2023#6,40918
2022#9,68010
2021#8,97811
2020#6,32518
2019#5,44923
2018#5,15225
2017#5,51723
2016#5,62223
2015#4,48831
2014#4,00337
2013#4,15635
2012#3,21351
2011#2,58969
2010#1,928104
2009#2,14893
2008#2,12295
2007#2,43377
2006#2,12791
2005#1,878103
2004#1,90998
2003#2,16780
2002#2,19975
2001#2,88150
2000#3,07045
1999#3,89530
1998#6,07316
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First appearance
1994

The first year at least five girls were named Anijah! It came in at #11,778, and was given to 6 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1996, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.

See more about Anijah
Momentum · girls
Holding steady
  • 152 spots since 2024 (#6,394#6,546)
  • 221 spots since 2020 (#6,325#6,546)
  • 2,058 spots since 2015 (#4,488#6,546)
Rise & fade · girls
11 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1994
  • Peaked 2005 at #1,878 (103 births)
  • Births halved by 2012, 7 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 17,092
  • Highest: 1 in 17,092 girls born in 2010 were named Anijah (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 94,545 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #1,878 in 2005, was only 1 in 17,940 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 2000s
  • 58.0% of all girls named Anijah (807) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1990s72#3,895 (1999)#7,821
2000s807#1,878 (2005)#2,293
2010s421#1,928 (2010)#4,212
2020s92#6,325 (2020)#7,389

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.

Anijah in 2006

girls
#2,127
91 births · 1 in 20,892 girls

Top girls' names in 2006

  1. #1Emily21,412
  2. #2Emma19,133
  3. #3Madison18,635
  4. #4Isabella18,231
  5. #5Ava16,941
  6. #6Abigail15,633
  7. #7Olivia15,508
  8. #8Hannah14,556
  9. #9Sophia13,503
  10. #10Samantha12,470
  11. #2,127Anijah91
More about 2006

girls

1,901,209 girls got a published name in 2006; 1 in 20,892 of them was named Anijah, which outranked 89.4% of the 20,064 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Anijah
  1. #2,107Sabine92
  2. #2,107Santana92
  3. #2,107Stefani92
  4. #2,127Anijah91
  5. #2,127Alisson91
  6. #2,127Ameerah91
  7. #2,127Aminah91
  8. #2,149Alise90
  9. #2,149Charleigh90
  10. #2,149Doris90

Tied with 21 names at #2,127; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2005
Risers
  1. 8,571Bethzy#9,452#881
  2. 1,747Rihanna#2,278#531
  3. 965Yaretzi#1,803#838
  4. 921Betsy#1,668#747
  5. 612Evangeline#1,210#598
Fallers
  1. 2,134Mikalah#806#2,940
  2. 1,275Jolette#954#2,229
  3. 756Karol#818#1,574
  4. 446Litzy#388#834
  5. 305Devon#963#1,268

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 2006