Anakin
#13,208 for girls in 2025, 6 births · #648 for boys in 2025, 427 births
Given to boys 99.2% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2023 · 541 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 5,842since 1995
Anakin over time
Rank among boys' names. Anakin has never cracked the top 500 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #13,208 | 6 | #648 | 427 |
| 2024 | — | #590 | 485 | |
| 2023 | #13,462 | 6 | #544 | 541 |
| 2022 | #10,383 | 9 | #606 | 464 |
| 2021 | — | #639 | 431 | |
| 2020 | #13,453 | 6 | #702 | 361 |
| 2019 | — | #961 | 222 | |
| 2018 | #9,806 | 10 | #827 | 270 |
| 2017 | #14,124 | 6 | #736 | 323 |
| 2016 | #12,876 | 7 | #776 | 308 |
| 2015 | — | #908 | 237 | |
| 2014 | — | #959 | 220 | |
| 2013 | — | #1,238 | 143 | |
| 2012 | — | #1,328 | 128 | |
| 2011 | — | #1,656 | 91 | |
| 2010 | — | #1,574 | 100 | |
| 2009 | — | #1,413 | 119 | |
| 2008 | — | #1,571 | 101 | |
| 2007 | — | #1,539 | 102 | |
| 2006 | — | #1,350 | 120 | |
| 2005 | — | #1,196 | 133 | |
| 2004 | — | #1,857 | 66 | |
| 2003 | — | #2,077 | 54 | |
| 2002 | — | #1,694 | 69 | |
| 2001 | — | #1,733 | 66 | |
| 2000 | — | #1,334 | 96 | |
| 1999 | — | #1,149 | 114 | |
| 1998 | — | #3,017 | 26 | |
| 1997 | — | #4,451 | 14 | |
| 1996 | — | #7,971 | 6 | |
| 1995 | — | #8,868 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Anakin! It came in at #8,868, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1995–1996, when fewer than 7 boys a year got the name.
Where Anakin is popular in 2014
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Mississippi#463 · 1 in 2,297
- Kansas#501 · 1 in 2,635
- Colorado#533 · 1 in 3,033
- Kentucky#553 · 1 in 3,713
- Alabama#602 · 1 in 3,851
Best ever in a state: #200 in Montana, 2021.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Mississippi | #463 | 6 | 1 in 2,297 |
| Kansas | #501 | 6 | 1 in 2,635 |
| Colorado | #533 | 9 | 1 in 3,033 |
| Kentucky | #553 | 6 | 1 in 3,713 |
| Alabama | #602 | 6 | 1 in 3,851 |
| Indiana | #610 | 9 | 1 in 4,017 |
| Oklahoma | #698 | 5 | 1 in 4,130 |
| California | #720 | 38 | 1 in 6,087 |
| Tennessee | #733 | 7 | 1 in 5,182 |
| Missouri | #753 | 6 | 1 in 5,393 |
| Virginia | #776 | 7 | 1 in 6,045 |
| Arizona | #799 | 6 | 1 in 6,265 |
| Louisiana | #806 | 5 | 1 in 5,041 |
| Michigan | #873 | 7 | 1 in 6,981 |
| Ohio | #896 | 8 | 1 in 7,536 |
| Texas | #949 | 22 | 1 in 8,479 |
| Florida | #1,145 | 9 | 1 in 10,668 |
| Georgia | #1,203 | 5 | 1 in 11,003 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys 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 Anakin
- 58 spots since 2024 (#590 → #648)
- 54 spots since 2020 (#702 → #648)
- 260 spots since 2015 (#908 → #648)
- Biggest jump: 279 spots in 2014 (#1,238 → #959)
- Biggest drop: 134 spots in 2019 (#827 → #961)
- Debuted 1995
- Peaked 2023 at #544 (541 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 12 yrs · run 2014–2025
- Highest: 1 in 3,162 boys born in 2023 were named Anakin (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 4,000 boys born in 2025 (0.02%)
- 46.4% of all boys named Anakin (2,709) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 165 | #1,149 (1999) | #5,091 |
| 2000s | 926 | #1,196 (2005) | #1,576 |
| 2010s | 2,042 | #736 (2017) | #1,096 |
| 2020s | 2,709 | #544 (2023) | #622 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Anakin in 2014
Top boys' names in 2014
More about 2014
boys
1,920,871 boys got a published name in 2014; 1 in 8,731 of them was named Anakin, which outranked 93.2% of the 14,081 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
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- #952Truman221
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- #959Anakin220
- #959Augustine220
- #959Emmet220
- #959Judson220
- #964Damari219
- #965Baylor218
- #965Deangelo218
Tied with 4 names at #959; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.