Anja
#4,067 for girls in 2025, 35 births
- Peak · girls
- 2002 · 109 births
- Debut · girls
- 7 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 2,797since 1962
Anja over time
Rank among girls' names. Anja has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #4,067 | 35 |
| 2024 | #3,277 | 48 |
| 2023 | #3,181 | 51 |
| 2022 | #3,220 | 50 |
| 2021 | #3,390 | 46 |
| 2020 | #3,015 | 53 |
| 2019 | #2,891 | 57 |
| 2018 | #3,438 | 45 |
| 2017 | #2,689 | 64 |
| 2016 | #2,502 | 72 |
| 2015 | #2,471 | 73 |
| 2014 | #3,272 | 49 |
| 2013 | #2,769 | 62 |
| 2012 | #2,160 | 87 |
| 2011 | #2,298 | 81 |
| 2010 | #2,274 | 84 |
| 2009 | #2,396 | 80 |
| 2008 | #2,557 | 73 |
| 2007 | #2,059 | 99 |
| 2006 | #1,709 | 122 |
| 2005 | #2,180 | 84 |
| 2004 | #2,087 | 87 |
| 2003 | #2,167 | 80 |
| 2002 | #1,683 | 109 |
| 2001 | #2,236 | 72 |
| 2000 | #2,332 | 66 |
| 1999 | #2,405 | 61 |
| 1998 | #2,929 | 44 |
| 1997 | #3,716 | 30 |
| 1996 | #2,372 | 55 |
| 1995 | #3,878 | 27 |
| 1994 | #2,988 | 39 |
| 1993 | #4,671 | 21 |
| 1992 | #2,974 | 39 |
| 1991 | #2,886 | 40 |
| 1990 | #2,640 | 44 |
| 1989 | #3,253 | 32 |
| 1988 | #3,585 | 26 |
| 1987 | #4,122 | 20 |
| 1986 | #4,028 | 20 |
| 1985 | #3,419 | 25 |
| 1984 | #3,990 | 19 |
| 1983 | #3,806 | 20 |
| 1982 | #3,780 | 21 |
| 1981 | #4,344 | 17 |
| 1980 | #4,517 | 16 |
| 1979 | #4,842 | 14 |
| 1978 | #4,079 | 17 |
| 1977 | #4,652 | 14 |
| 1976 | #4,363 | 14 |
| 1975 | #3,950 | 16 |
| 1974 | #3,426 | 19 |
| 1973 | #4,586 | 12 |
| 1972 | #2,903 | 23 |
| 1971 | #2,107 | 39 |
| 1970 | #2,647 | 27 |
| 1969 | #2,768 | 23 |
| 1968 | #2,246 | 29 |
| 1967 | #2,376 | 26 |
| 1966 | #2,752 | 20 |
| 1965 | #1,768 | 41 |
| 1964 | #4,096 | 11 |
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| 1962 | #5,293 | 7 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Anja! It came in at #5,293, and was given to 7 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1963, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Anja is popular in 2008
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Minnesota#541 · 1 in 2,862
- Washington#943 · 1 in 5,358
- Michigan#997 · 1 in 6,352
- Illinois#1,741 · 1 in 13,245
- California#2,174 · 1 in 20,849
Best ever in a state: #329 in Minnesota, 2006.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Minnesota | #541 | 9 | 1 in 2,862 |
| Washington | #943 | 6 | 1 in 5,358 |
| Michigan | #997 | 7 | 1 in 6,352 |
| Illinois | #1,741 | 5 | 1 in 13,245 |
| California | #2,174 | 11 | 1 in 20,849 |
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See more about Anja
- 790 spots since 2024 (#3,277 → #4,067)
- 1,052 spots since 2020 (#3,015 → #4,067)
- 1,596 spots since 2015 (#2,471 → #4,067)
- Debuted 1962
- Peaked 2002 at #1,683 (109 births)
- Births halved by 2014, 12 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 15,584 girls born in 2006 were named Anja (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 45,922 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,683 in 2002, was only 1 in 16,485 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 31.2% of all girls named Anja (872) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 157 | #1,768 (1965) | #3,043 |
| 1970s | 195 | #2,107 (1971) | #3,756 |
| 1980s | 216 | #3,253 (1989) | #3,884 |
| 1990s | 400 | #2,372 (1996) | #3,146 |
| 2000s | 872 | #1,683 (2002) | #2,141 |
| 2010s | 674 | #2,160 (2012) | #2,676 |
| 2020s | 283 | #3,015 (2020) | #3,358 |
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.
Anja in 2008
Top girls' names in 2008
More about 2008
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1,890,938 girls got a published name in 2008; 1 in 25,903 of them was named Anja, which outranked 87.5% of the 20,482 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,538Shelbi74
- #2,538Tehya74
- #2,538Yana74
- #2,557Anja73
- #2,557Arrianna73
- #2,557Betzy73
- #2,557Demetria73
- #2,584Adalee72
- #2,584Allysa72
- #2,584Alysson72
Tied with 26 names at #2,557; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.