Anay
Last seen for girls in 2017 at #14,124 · #2,641 for boys in 2025, 49 births
Given to boys 62.6% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2017 · 102 births
- Debut · boys
- 9 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,287since 2001
Anay over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #2,641 | 49 | |
| 2024 | — | #2,789 | 46 | |
| 2023 | — | #4,610 | 22 | |
| 2022 | — | #2,717 | 48 | |
| 2021 | — | #3,074 | 39 | |
| 2020 | — | #2,347 | 57 | |
| 2019 | — | #2,292 | 60 | |
| 2018 | — | #1,920 | 77 | |
| 2017 | #14,124 | 6 | #1,582 | 102 |
| 2016 | #10,859 | 9 | #1,763 | 87 |
| 2015 | #11,835 | 8 | #1,870 | 78 |
| 2014 | — | #1,873 | 78 | |
| 2013 | #9,612 | 11 | #1,709 | 86 |
| 2012 | #14,962 | 6 | #1,909 | 75 |
| 2011 | #9,150 | 12 | #1,719 | 86 |
| 2010 | #5,771 | 23 | #2,169 | 61 |
| 2009 | #4,805 | 30 | #2,401 | 53 |
| 2008 | #4,006 | 39 | #3,286 | 34 |
| 2007 | #3,376 | 49 | #3,188 | 35 |
| 2006 | #3,505 | 45 | #3,153 | 34 |
| 2005 | #3,366 | 45 | #4,464 | 19 |
| 2004 | #3,989 | 35 | #4,421 | 19 |
| 2003 | #3,131 | 47 | #4,815 | 16 |
| 2002 | #2,780 | 54 | #4,502 | 17 |
| 2001 | #2,700 | 55 | #6,935 | 9 |
| 2000 | #2,854 | 50 | — | |
| 1999 | #3,048 | 43 | — | |
| 1998 | #3,426 | 35 | — | |
| 1997 | #5,417 | 18 | — | |
| 1996 | #4,453 | 23 | — | |
| 1995 | #5,958 | 15 | — | |
| 1994 | #8,122 | 10 | — | |
| 1993 | #5,419 | 17 | — | |
| 1992 | #5,267 | 18 | — | |
| 1991 | #4,329 | 23 | — | |
| 1990 | #5,549 | 16 | — | |
| 1989 | #8,037 | 9 | — | |
| 1988 | #6,277 | 12 | — | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Anay! It came in at #6,935, and was given to 9 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 2001, when fewer than 10 boys a year got the name.
Where Anay is popular in 2001
No state had 5 or more boys named Anay in 2001, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Anay
- 148 spots since 2024 (#2,789 → #2,641)
- 294 spots since 2020 (#2,347 → #2,641)
- 771 spots since 2015 (#1,870 → #2,641)
- Debuted 2001
- Peaked 2017 at #1,582 (102 births)
- Births halved by 2021, 4 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 18,147 boys born in 2017 were named Anay (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 34,859 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 61.4% of all boys named Anay (790) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 2008, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 236 | #2,401 (2009) | #4,129 |
| 2010s | 790 | #1,582 (2017) | #1,881 |
| 2020s | 261 | #2,347 (2020) | #3,030 |
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.
Anay in 2001
Top girls' names in 2001
Top boys' names in 2001
More about 2001
girls
1,800,624 girls got a published name in 2001; 1 in 32,739 of them was named Anay, which outranked 85.0% of the 17,978 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,663Zakiyah56
- #2,663Zayra56
- #2,663Zuri56
- #2,700Anay55
- #2,700Aine55
- #2,700Alexas55
- #2,700Alonna55
- #2,740Aerial54
- #2,740Akilah54
- #2,740Alexsis54
Tied with 39 names at #2,700; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,942,881 boys got a published name in 2001; 1 in 215,876 of them was named Anay, which outranked 43.6% of the 12,307 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 12.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #6,445Zyion10
- #6,445Zyquan10
- #6,445Zyron10
- #6,935Anay9
- #6,935Aashish9
- #6,935Abas9
- #6,935Abayomi9
- #7,536Aaliyah8
- #7,536Abdimalik8
- #7,536Abdoulie8
Tied with 600 names at #6,935; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.