Anniston

#1,525 for girls in 2025, 139 births

Peak · girls
2014 · 302 births
Debut · girls
7 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
3,660
since 1996

Anniston over time

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Rank among girls' names. Anniston has never cracked the top 800 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020202009peak #898, 2014girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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rankbirths
2025#1,525139
2024#1,383163
2023#1,344168
2022#1,490146
2021#1,249188
2020#1,389157
2019#1,203194
2018#1,101224
2017#1,082234
2016#979273
2015#1,038256
2014#898302
2013#1,165206
2012#1,201204
2011#1,382165
2010#1,500149
2009#2,20489
2008#2,95759
2007#3,21453
2006#2,97857
2005#3,64640
2004#3,44443
2003#4,10932
2002#3,33441
2001#6,06718
2000#8,53411
1999#5,03921
1998#7,53212
1997#9,0179
1996#10,5677
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First appearance
1996

The first year at least five girls were named Anniston! It came in at #10,567, and was given to 7 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1996–1997, when fewer than 10 girls a year got the name.

See more about Anniston
Momentum · girls
Holding steady
  • 142 spots since 2024 (#1,383#1,525)
  • 136 spots since 2020 (#1,389#1,525)
  • 487 spots since 2015 (#1,038#1,525)
  • Biggest jump: 267 spots in 2014 (#1,165#898)
  • Biggest drop: 140 spots in 2015 (#898#1,038)
Rise & fade · girls
18 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1996
  • Peaked 2014 at #898 (302 births)
  • Births halved by 2022, 8 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 2 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 2 yrs · 2014–2016
Share of babies · girls
1 in 5,915
  • Highest: 1 in 5,915 girls born in 2014 were named Anniston (0.02%)
  • Latest: 1 in 11,563 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
Era · girls
The 2010s
  • 60.3% of all girls named Anniston (2,207) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1990s49#5,039 (1999)#8,039
2000s443#2,204 (2009)#4,049
2010s2,207#898 (2014)#1,155
2020s961#1,249 (2021)#1,397

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.

Anniston in 2009

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#2,204
89 births · 1 in 20,642 girls

Top girls' names in 2009

  1. #1Isabella22,321
  2. #2Emma17,910
  3. #3Olivia17,444
  4. #4Sophia16,951
  5. #5Ava15,877
  6. #6Emily15,366
  7. #7Madison15,257
  8. #8Abigail14,401
  9. #9Chloe11,922
  10. #10Mia11,438
  11. #2,204Anniston89
More about 2009

girls

1,837,114 girls got a published name in 2009; 1 in 20,642 of them was named Anniston, which outranked 89.1% of the 20,199 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Anniston
  1. #2,190Pilar90
  2. #2,190Raylynn90
  3. #2,190Rhylee90
  4. #2,204Anniston89
  5. #2,204Analiese89
  6. #2,204Brigid89
  7. #2,204Cami89
  8. #2,227Aila88
  9. #2,227Amie88
  10. #2,227Anaiyah88

Tied with 22 names at #2,204; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2008
Risers
  1. 4,137Taraji#5,013#876
  2. 2,107Bristol#2,773#666
  3. 836Analia#1,167#331
  4. 773Harlow#1,677#904
  5. 610Maliah#1,405#795
Fallers
  1. 1,450Dayami#754#2,204
  2. 953Mareli#723#1,676
  3. 773Mylie#839#1,612
  4. 517Marely#334#851
  5. 515Hillary#722#1,237

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

See the top 100 for 2009