Ananias
#2,451 for boys in 2025, 55 births
- Peak · boys
- 1883 · 5 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 961since 1883
Ananias over time
Rank among boys' names. Ananias has never cracked the top 800 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,451 | 55 |
| 2024 | #2,715 | 48 |
| 2023 | #3,005 | 41 |
| 2022 | #3,344 | 35 |
| 2021 | #3,242 | 36 |
| 2020 | #2,925 | 40 |
| 2019 | #2,943 | 41 |
| 2018 | #3,446 | 32 |
| 2017 | #6,685 | 12 |
| 2016 | #3,161 | 36 |
| 2015 | #3,882 | 27 |
| 2014 | #4,538 | 21 |
| 2013 | #5,171 | 17 |
| 2012 | #5,256 | 17 |
| 2011 | #6,256 | 13 |
| 2010 | #8,139 | 9 |
| 2009 | #6,095 | 14 |
| 2008 | #6,763 | 12 |
| 2007 | #5,210 | 17 |
| 2006 | #5,525 | 15 |
| 2005 | #8,299 | 8 |
| 2004 | #6,976 | 10 |
| 2003 | #7,245 | 9 |
| 2002 | #6,088 | 11 |
| 2001 | #7,536 | 8 |
| 2000 | #5,297 | 13 |
| 1999 | #8,704 | 6 |
| 1998 | #8,479 | 6 |
| 1997 | #8,110 | 6 |
| 1996 | #6,496 | 8 |
| 1995 | — | |
| 1994 | #7,770 | 6 |
| 1993 | — | |
| 1992 | #6,128 | 8 |
| 1991 | — | |
| 1990 | #6,415 | 7 |
| 1989 | #6,229 | 7 |
| 1988 | — | |
| 1987 | — | |
| 1986 | #6,721 | 5 |
| 1985 | #5,785 | 6 |
| 1984 | — | |
| 1983 | #6,238 | 5 |
| 1982 | — | |
| 1981 | #6,262 | 5 |
| 1980 | #6,250 | 5 |
| 1979 | #4,403 | 8 |
| 1978 | — | |
| 1977 | #5,123 | 6 |
| 1976 | #5,587 | 5 |
| 1975 | — | |
| 1974 | — | |
| 1973 | #5,101 | 5 |
| 1972 | — | |
| 1971 | #4,375 | 6 |
| 1970 | — | |
| 1969 | — | |
| 1968 | — | |
| 1967 | — | |
| 1966 | — | |
| 1965 | — | |
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| 1962 | — | |
| 1961 | #3,356 | 7 |
| 1960 | — | |
| 1959 | #3,619 | 6 |
| 1958 | — | |
| 1957 | — | |
| 1956 | — | |
| 1955 | #3,201 | 7 |
| 1954 | — | |
| 1953 | #3,143 | 7 |
| 1952 | — | |
| 1951 | #2,246 | 12 |
| 1950 | #3,329 | 6 |
| 1949 | — | |
| 1948 | #3,668 | 5 |
| 1947 | #3,370 | 6 |
| 1946 | — | |
| 1945 | — | |
| 1944 | #2,862 | 7 |
| 1943 | #3,538 | 5 |
| 1942 | — | |
| 1941 | — | |
| 1940 | #3,130 | 6 |
| 1939 | #2,609 | 8 |
| 1938 | #2,479 | 9 |
| 1937 | #3,518 | 5 |
| 1936 | #3,549 | 5 |
| 1935 | #2,951 | 7 |
| 1934 | — | |
| 1933 | #3,268 | 6 |
| 1932 | #3,092 | 7 |
| 1931 | #3,390 | 6 |
| 1930 | #2,609 | 10 |
| 1929 | #3,559 | 6 |
| 1928 | #2,270 | 13 |
| 1927 | — | |
| 1926 | #2,904 | 9 |
| 1925 | — | |
| 1924 | #3,260 | 8 |
| 1923 | #3,822 | 6 |
| 1922 | #3,014 | 9 |
| 1921 | #3,214 | 8 |
| 1920 | — | |
| 1919 | #2,877 | 9 |
| 1918 | — | |
| 1917 | — | |
| 1916 | — | |
| 1915 | #3,825 | 5 |
| 1914 | — | |
| 1913 | #1,803 | 10 |
| 1912 | #2,544 | 5 |
| 1911 | — | |
| 1910 | #1,314 | 7 |
| 1909 | — | |
| 1908 | — | |
| 1907 | — | |
| 1906 | — | |
| 1905 | — | |
| 1904 | #1,205 | 5 |
| 1903 | — | |
| 1902 | — | |
| 1901 | — | |
| 1900 | #1,050 | 7 |
| 1899 | — | |
| 1898 | — | |
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| 1891 | — | |
| 1890 | — | |
| 1889 | #974 | 5 |
| 1888 | — | |
| 1887 | — | |
| 1886 | — | |
| 1885 | — | |
| 1884 | — | |
| 1883 | #892 | 5 |
| 1882 | — | |
| 1881 | — | |
| 1880 | — | |
The first year at least five boys were named Ananias! It came in at #892, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1883–1899, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Ananias is popular in 2021
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- California#2,497 · 1 in 37,876
Best ever in a state: #1,831 in Florida, 2025.
Show every state
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| California | #2,497 | 5 | 1 in 37,876 |
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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 Ananias
- 264 spots since 2024 (#2,715 → #2,451)
- 474 spots since 2020 (#2,925 → #2,451)
- 1,431 spots since 2015 (#3,882 → #2,451)
- Debuted 1883
- Peaked 1883 at #892 (5 births)
- Births halved by 1884, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 2 yrs · 1883–1889
- Highest: 1 in 20,925 boys born in 1883 were named Ananias (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 31,056 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 26.5% of all boys named Ananias (255) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 10 | #892 (1883) | #933 |
| 1890s | 0 | — | — |
| 1900s | 12 | #1,050 (1900) | #1,128 |
| 1910s | 36 | #1,314 (1910) | #2,473 |
| 1920s | 59 | #2,270 (1928) | #3,149 |
| 1930s | 63 | #2,479 (1938) | #3,052 |
| 1940s | 29 | #2,862 (1944) | #3,314 |
| 1950s | 38 | #2,246 (1951) | #3,108 |
| 1960s | 7 | #3,356 (1961) | #3,356 |
| 1970s | 30 | #4,375 (1971) | #4,918 |
| 1980s | 33 | #5,785 (1985) | #6,248 |
| 1990s | 47 | #6,128 (1992) | #7,443 |
| 2000s | 117 | #5,210 (2007) | #6,503 |
| 2010s | 225 | #2,943 (2019) | #4,948 |
| 2020s | 255 | #2,451 (2025) | #2,947 |
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.
Ananias in 2021
Top boys' names in 2021
More about 2021
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1,749,482 boys got a published name in 2021; 1 in 48,597 of them was named Ananias, which outranked 77.0% of the 14,096 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
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- #3,180Zakariah37
- #3,180Zakary37
- #3,242Ananias36
- #3,242Abriel36
- #3,242Adonnis36
- #3,242Amaury36
- #3,297Abdurrahman35
- #3,297Aceyn35
- #3,297Adil35
Tied with 54 names at #3,242; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.