Anya
#375 for girls in 2025, 821 births
- Peak · girls
- 2009 · 889 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 20,561since 1943
Anya over time
Rank among girls' names. Anya has never cracked the top 300 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 | #375 | 821 |
| 2024 | #394 | 801 |
| 2023 | #443 | 695 |
| 2022 | #486 | 645 |
| 2021 | #536 | 574 |
| 2020 | #657 | 438 |
| 2019 | #658 | 445 |
| 2018 | #678 | 431 |
| 2017 | #627 | 471 |
| 2016 | #592 | 516 |
| 2015 | #550 | 564 |
| 2014 | #473 | 671 |
| 2013 | #446 | 688 |
| 2012 | #394 | 787 |
| 2011 | #432 | 727 |
| 2010 | #406 | 789 |
| 2009 | #363 | 889 |
| 2008 | #372 | 884 |
| 2007 | #364 | 895 |
| 2006 | #410 | 777 |
| 2005 | #446 | 680 |
| 2004 | #468 | 631 |
| 2003 | #488 | 596 |
| 2002 | #484 | 578 |
| 2001 | #525 | 508 |
| 2000 | #586 | 439 |
| 1999 | #691 | 326 |
| 1998 | #845 | 252 |
| 1997 | #1,194 | 152 |
| 1996 | #1,375 | 122 |
| 1995 | #1,225 | 140 |
| 1994 | #1,285 | 132 |
| 1993 | #1,590 | 96 |
| 1992 | #1,600 | 96 |
| 1991 | #1,779 | 80 |
| 1990 | #1,543 | 99 |
| 1989 | #1,354 | 113 |
| 1988 | #1,660 | 78 |
| 1987 | #1,812 | 64 |
| 1986 | #1,494 | 83 |
| 1985 | #1,401 | 91 |
| 1984 | #1,075 | 130 |
| 1983 | #993 | 146 |
| 1982 | #1,138 | 123 |
| 1981 | #901 | 166 |
| 1980 | #556 | 334 |
| 1979 | #1,592 | 72 |
| 1978 | #1,537 | 72 |
| 1977 | #1,559 | 69 |
| 1976 | #1,694 | 57 |
| 1975 | #1,672 | 57 |
| 1974 | #1,881 | 46 |
| 1973 | #1,755 | 50 |
| 1972 | #2,057 | 38 |
| 1971 | #2,542 | 29 |
| 1970 | #2,354 | 32 |
| 1969 | #1,897 | 43 |
| 1968 | #2,126 | 32 |
| 1967 | #2,212 | 29 |
| 1966 | #2,094 | 31 |
| 1965 | #2,833 | 19 |
| 1964 | #2,675 | 22 |
| 1963 | #2,364 | 26 |
| 1962 | #4,533 | 9 |
| 1961 | #3,793 | 12 |
| 1960 | #4,437 | 9 |
| 1959 | #5,031 | 7 |
| 1958 | #4,890 | 7 |
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| 1956 | #3,186 | 14 |
| 1955 | #5,208 | 6 |
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| 1947 | #5,295 | 5 |
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| 1943 | #4,691 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Anya! It came in at #4,691, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1943–1954, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Anya is popular in 2004
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- District of Columbia#161 · 1 in 502
- Delaware#190 · 1 in 616
- Massachusetts#232 · 1 in 1,085
- New Jersey#245 · 1 in 1,261
- Wisconsin#291 · 1 in 1,382
Best ever in a state: #75 in Alaska, 2006.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| District of Columbia | #161 | 7 | 1 in 502 |
| Delaware | #190 | 5 | 1 in 616 |
| Massachusetts | #232 | 27 | 1 in 1,085 |
| New Jersey | #245 | 33 | 1 in 1,261 |
| Wisconsin | #291 | 18 | 1 in 1,382 |
| Maryland | #297 | 18 | 1 in 1,362 |
| Virginia | #305 | 26 | 1 in 1,422 |
| Pennsylvania | #319 | 35 | 1 in 1,584 |
| Louisiana | #331 | 14 | 1 in 1,485 |
| North Carolina | #354 | 25 | 1 in 1,778 |
| Florida | #382 | 39 | 1 in 2,103 |
| New York | #383 | 47 | 1 in 2,064 |
| Michigan | #385 | 23 | 1 in 2,097 |
| Minnesota | #385 | 13 | 1 in 2,020 |
| Connecticut | #399 | 7 | 1 in 2,050 |
| New Mexico | #435 | 5 | 1 in 1,631 |
| Colorado | #438 | 12 | 1 in 2,058 |
| Ohio | #475 | 20 | 1 in 2,876 |
| Illinois | #485 | 26 | 1 in 2,634 |
| Georgia | #489 | 20 | 1 in 2,526 |
| Arizona | #511 | 14 | 1 in 2,459 |
| Missouri | #514 | 10 | 1 in 2,839 |
| Mississippi | #517 | 5 | 1 in 2,344 |
| Oregon | #550 | 6 | 1 in 2,650 |
| California | #560 | 72 | 1 in 3,178 |
| Utah | #697 | 5 | 1 in 3,652 |
| Washington | #720 | 7 | 1 in 4,112 |
| Indiana | #725 | 7 | 1 in 4,645 |
| Texas | #731 | 37 | 1 in 4,305 |
| Tennessee | #901 | 5 | 1 in 6,092 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Anya
- 19 spots since 2024 (#394 → #375)
- 282 spots since 2020 (#657 → #375)
- 175 spots since 2015 (#550 → #375)
- Biggest jump: 1,036 spots in 1980 (#1,592 → #556)
- Biggest drop: 345 spots in 1981 (#556 → #901)
- Debuted 1943
- Peaked 2009 at #363 (889 births)
- Births halved by 2018, 9 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 31 yrs · run 1998–2025
- Highest: 1 in 1,958 girls born in 2025 were named Anya (0.05%)
- Its best rank, #363 in 2009, was only 1 in 2,066 (0.05%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 33.4% of all girls named Anya (6,877) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 10 | #4,691 (1943) | #4,993 |
| 1950s | 34 | #3,186 (1956) | #4,579 |
| 1960s | 232 | #1,897 (1969) | #2,896 |
| 1970s | 522 | #1,537 (1978) | #1,864 |
| 1980s | 1,328 | #556 (1980) | #1,238 |
| 1990s | 1,495 | #691 (1999) | #1,313 |
| 2000s | 6,877 | #363 (2009) | #451 |
| 2010s | 6,089 | #394 (2012) | #526 |
| 2020s | 3,974 | #375 (2025) | #482 |
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.
Anya in 2004
Top girls' names in 2004
More about 2004
girls
1,836,250 girls got a published name in 2004; 1 in 2,910 of them was named Anya, which outranked 97.5% of the 18,835 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.