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 2023
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Kentucky#313 · 1 in 1,238
- Arkansas#329 · 1 in 1,257
- West Virginia#334 · 1 in 1,295
- Oklahoma#347 · 1 in 1,347
- Nevada#353 · 1 in 1,378
Best ever in a state: #200 in Montana, 2021.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kentucky | #313 | 16 | 1 in 1,238 |
| Arkansas | #329 | 10 | 1 in 1,257 |
| West Virginia | #334 | 5 | 1 in 1,295 |
| Oklahoma | #347 | 13 | 1 in 1,347 |
| Nevada | #353 | 8 | 1 in 1,378 |
| California | #393 | 88 | 1 in 2,044 |
| Indiana | #413 | 17 | 1 in 1,859 |
| Tennessee | #425 | 19 | 1 in 1,881 |
| Arizona | #447 | 16 | 1 in 2,031 |
| Colorado | #456 | 12 | 1 in 2,068 |
| Ohio | #465 | 23 | 1 in 2,282 |
| Texas | #467 | 72 | 1 in 2,464 |
| Wisconsin | #480 | 10 | 1 in 2,354 |
| Florida | #502 | 34 | 1 in 2,771 |
| Utah | #514 | 8 | 1 in 2,297 |
| South Carolina | #530 | 8 | 1 in 2,553 |
| Oregon | #542 | 6 | 1 in 2,465 |
| North Carolina | #577 | 16 | 1 in 3,170 |
| Michigan | #596 | 12 | 1 in 3,347 |
| Washington | #599 | 11 | 1 in 2,878 |
| Missouri | #613 | 8 | 1 in 3,356 |
| Louisiana | #638 | 7 | 1 in 2,918 |
| Illinois | #644 | 14 | 1 in 3,583 |
| Pennsylvania | #645 | 13 | 1 in 4,002 |
| Georgia | #651 | 15 | 1 in 3,359 |
| Alabama | #771 | 5 | 1 in 4,378 |
| Virginia | #777 | 8 | 1 in 4,656 |
| New Jersey | #915 | 6 | 1 in 6,728 |
| New York | #961 | 13 | 1 in 6,598 |
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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 2023
Top girls' names in 2023
Top boys' names in 2023
More about 2023
girls
1,604,582 girls got a published name in 2023; 1 in 267,430 of them was named Anakin, which outranked 23.6% of the 17,615 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #12,197Zyasia7
- #12,197Zyniah7
- #12,197Zyri7
- #13,462Anakin6
- #13,462Aabha6
- #13,462Aadiya6
- #13,462Aalana6
- #15,194Aagya5
- #15,194Aala5
- #15,194Aalaiya5
Tied with 1,731 names at #13,462; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,710,576 boys got a published name in 2023; 1 in 3,162 of them was named Anakin, which outranked 96.2% of the 14,215 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.