Ananya
#3,100 for girls in 2025, 52 births · Last seen for boys in 2020 at #12,022
Given to girls 99.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2006 · 208 births
- Debut · girls
- 10 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 4,010since 1995
Ananya over time
Rank among girls' names. Ananya has never cracked the top 1,000 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 | #3,100 | 52 | — | |
| 2024 | #2,303 | 80 | — | |
| 2023 | #2,555 | 69 | — | |
| 2022 | #2,208 | 85 | — | |
| 2021 | #1,730 | 119 | — | |
| 2020 | #1,578 | 133 | #12,022 | 5 |
| 2019 | #1,560 | 138 | — | |
| 2018 | #1,482 | 148 | — | |
| 2017 | #1,563 | 140 | — | |
| 2016 | #1,394 | 167 | — | |
| 2015 | #1,366 | 173 | — | |
| 2014 | #1,270 | 189 | — | |
| 2013 | #1,292 | 181 | — | |
| 2012 | #1,302 | 181 | — | |
| 2011 | #1,319 | 178 | — | |
| 2010 | #1,292 | 184 | — | |
| 2009 | #1,198 | 209 | — | |
| 2008 | #1,188 | 214 | — | |
| 2007 | #1,252 | 197 | — | |
| 2006 | #1,167 | 208 | — | |
| 2005 | #1,198 | 191 | — | |
| 2004 | #1,244 | 175 | — | |
| 2003 | #1,332 | 153 | — | |
| 2002 | #1,297 | 151 | — | |
| 2001 | #1,968 | 87 | — | |
| 2000 | #2,306 | 67 | — | |
| 1999 | #2,527 | 56 | — | |
| 1998 | #3,301 | 37 | — | |
| 1997 | #3,815 | 29 | — | |
| 1996 | #8,812 | 9 | — | |
| 1995 | #8,079 | 10 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Ananya! It came in at #8,079, and was given to 10 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1995–1996, when fewer than 11 girls a year got the name.
Where Ananya is popular in 2021
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Massachusetts#750 · 1 in 4,143
- New Jersey#932 · 1 in 5,204
- Virginia#960 · 1 in 4,940
- Ohio#1,147 · 1 in 6,944
- California#1,194 · 1 in 7,933
Best ever in a state: #311 in New Jersey, 2005.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Massachusetts | #750 | 6 | 1 in 4,143 |
| New Jersey | #932 | 7 | 1 in 5,204 |
| Virginia | #960 | 7 | 1 in 4,940 |
| Ohio | #1,147 | 7 | 1 in 6,944 |
| California | #1,194 | 22 | 1 in 7,933 |
| Georgia | #1,310 | 6 | 1 in 7,548 |
| North Carolina | #1,412 | 5 | 1 in 9,015 |
| Illinois | #1,507 | 5 | 1 in 9,680 |
| Texas | #1,787 | 12 | 1 in 12,957 |
| New York | #2,090 | 5 | 1 in 16,250 |
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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 Ananya
- 797 spots since 2024 (#2,303 → #3,100)
- 1,522 spots since 2020 (#1,578 → #3,100)
- 1,734 spots since 2015 (#1,366 → #3,100)
- Debuted 1995
- Peaked 2006 at #1,167 (208 births)
- Births halved by 2022, 16 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 8,790 girls born in 2009 were named Ananya (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 30,909 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,167 in 2006, was only 1 in 9,140 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 41.9% of all girls named Ananya (1,679) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 141 | #2,527 (1999) | #5,307 |
| 2000s | 1,652 | #1,167 (2006) | #1,415 |
| 2010s | 1,679 | #1,270 (2014) | #1,384 |
| 2020s | 538 | #1,578 (2020) | #2,246 |
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.
Ananya in 2021
Top girls' names in 2021
More about 2021
girls
1,640,861 girls got a published name in 2021; 1 in 13,789 of them was named Ananya, which outranked 90.2% of the 17,676 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,721Natalya120
- #1,721Ramsey120
- #1,721Serene120
- #1,730Ananya119
- #1,730Alara119
- #1,730Anabella119
- #1,730Annabeth119
- #1,739Alanis118
- #1,739Asiya118
- #1,739Camellia118
Tied with 8 names at #1,730; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.