Anel
#11,932 for girls in 2025, 7 births · Last seen for boys in 2023 at #12,239
Given to girls 87.7% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1974 · 58 births
- Debut · girls
- 11 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,877since 1971
Anel 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 | #11,932 | 7 | — | |
| 2024 | #11,122 | 8 | — | |
| 2023 | #8,486 | 12 | #12,239 | 5 |
| 2022 | #9,056 | 11 | — | |
| 2021 | #11,146 | 8 | — | |
| 2020 | #6,923 | 16 | — | |
| 2019 | #6,414 | 18 | — | |
| 2018 | #7,409 | 15 | — | |
| 2017 | #7,442 | 15 | #12,246 | 5 |
| 2016 | #8,393 | 13 | #12,185 | 5 |
| 2015 | #7,613 | 15 | — | |
| 2014 | #5,456 | 24 | — | |
| 2013 | #6,462 | 19 | #8,789 | 8 |
| 2012 | #10,429 | 10 | #10,770 | 6 |
| 2011 | #10,374 | 10 | #9,600 | 7 |
| 2010 | #7,217 | 17 | #8,139 | 9 |
| 2009 | #3,870 | 40 | #8,310 | 9 |
| 2008 | #4,179 | 37 | #6,763 | 12 |
| 2007 | #3,047 | 57 | #6,622 | 12 |
| 2006 | #3,617 | 43 | #6,094 | 13 |
| 2005 | #3,730 | 39 | #5,034 | 16 |
| 2004 | #3,071 | 50 | #6,138 | 12 |
| 2003 | #2,885 | 53 | #4,276 | 19 |
| 2002 | #2,935 | 50 | #5,395 | 13 |
| 2001 | #3,142 | 44 | #4,476 | 17 |
| 2000 | #3,453 | 38 | #6,316 | 10 |
| 1999 | #3,099 | 42 | #4,762 | 14 |
| 1998 | #2,691 | 50 | #5,466 | 11 |
| 1997 | #2,733 | 45 | #8,110 | 6 |
| 1996 | #2,796 | 43 | #6,496 | 8 |
| 1995 | #2,687 | 45 | #7,792 | 6 |
| 1994 | #2,124 | 64 | #6,372 | 8 |
| 1993 | #2,882 | 41 | #6,816 | 7 |
| 1992 | #2,295 | 57 | — | |
| 1991 | #1,857 | 76 | — | |
| 1990 | #2,289 | 55 | — | |
| 1989 | #2,572 | 44 | #6,941 | 6 |
| 1988 | #2,369 | 46 | — | |
| 1987 | #3,169 | 29 | #5,459 | 7 |
| 1986 | #3,203 | 28 | #5,332 | 7 |
| 1985 | #3,419 | 25 | — | |
| 1984 | #2,625 | 35 | — | |
| 1983 | #2,659 | 33 | — | |
| 1982 | #2,704 | 34 | — | |
| 1981 | #2,723 | 33 | #5,468 | 6 |
| 1980 | #2,651 | 35 | — | |
| 1979 | #2,525 | 36 | — | |
| 1978 | #2,012 | 47 | — | |
| 1977 | #1,901 | 52 | — | |
| 1976 | #2,292 | 36 | — | |
| 1975 | #1,986 | 44 | — | |
| 1974 | #1,616 | 58 | — | |
| 1973 | #2,127 | 37 | — | |
| 1972 | #2,598 | 27 | — | |
| 1971 | #4,810 | 11 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Anel! It came in at #4,810, and was given to 11 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 2024–2025, when fewer than 9 girls a year got the name.
Where Anel is popular in 2003
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- California#1,548 · 1 in 14,166
- Texas#1,661 · 1 in 14,371
Best ever in a state: #618 in California, 1974.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| California | #1,548 | 16 | 1 in 14,166 |
| Texas | #1,661 | 11 | 1 in 14,371 |
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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 Anel
- 810 spots since 2024 (#11,122 → #11,932)
- 5,009 spots since 2020 (#6,923 → #11,932)
- 4,319 spots since 2015 (#7,613 → #11,932)
- Debuted 1971
- Peaked 1974 at #1,616 (58 births)
- Births halved by 1985, 11 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 24,671 girls born in 1991 were named Anel (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 229,610 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,616 in 1974, was only 1 in 25,302 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 27.6% of all girls named Anel (518) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 348 | #1,616 (1974) | #2,430 |
| 1980s | 342 | #2,369 (1988) | #2,809 |
| 1990s | 518 | #1,857 (1991) | #2,545 |
| 2000s | 451 | #2,885 (2003) | #3,393 |
| 2010s | 156 | #5,456 (2014) | #7,721 |
| 2020s | 62 | #6,923 (2020) | #9,778 |
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.
Anel in 2003
Top girls' names in 2003
Top boys' names in 2003
More about 2003
girls
1,827,145 girls got a published name in 2003; 1 in 34,474 of them was named Anel, which outranked 84.4% of the 18,439 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,840Torri54
- #2,840Trinidy54
- #2,840Zia54
- #2,885Anel53
- #2,885Aleisha53
- #2,885Alyah53
- #2,885Aniston53
- #2,923Aleyah52
- #2,923Alyana52
- #2,923Annah52
Tied with 37 names at #2,885; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,975,349 boys got a published name in 2003; 1 in 103,966 of them was named Anel, which outranked 66.5% of the 12,761 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #4,114Zaylen20
- #4,114Zayvion20
- #4,114Ziyad20
- #4,276Anel19
- #4,276Abdias19
- #4,276Abhi19
- #4,276Abrahim19
- #4,426Abdurahman18
- #4,426Aboubacar18
- #4,426Abrar18
Tied with 149 names at #4,276; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.