Anela
#2,895 for girls in 2025, 58 births
- Peak · girls
- 2003 · 70 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,793since 1959
Anela over time
Rank among girls' names. Anela has never cracked the top 2,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,895 | 58 |
| 2024 | #3,013 | 54 |
| 2023 | #3,140 | 52 |
| 2022 | #3,171 | 51 |
| 2021 | #3,339 | 47 |
| 2020 | #4,005 | 35 |
| 2019 | #3,923 | 37 |
| 2018 | #5,007 | 26 |
| 2017 | #3,145 | 51 |
| 2016 | #3,100 | 53 |
| 2015 | #3,650 | 42 |
| 2014 | #2,615 | 67 |
| 2013 | #3,123 | 52 |
| 2012 | #2,474 | 74 |
| 2011 | #2,534 | 71 |
| 2010 | #2,538 | 72 |
| 2009 | #2,730 | 66 |
| 2008 | #3,420 | 48 |
| 2007 | #2,394 | 79 |
| 2006 | #2,850 | 61 |
| 2005 | #3,009 | 53 |
| 2004 | #2,424 | 70 |
| 2003 | #2,368 | 70 |
| 2002 | #2,709 | 56 |
| 2001 | #2,963 | 48 |
| 2000 | #3,404 | 39 |
| 1999 | #3,895 | 30 |
| 1998 | #3,831 | 30 |
| 1997 | #4,370 | 24 |
| 1996 | #5,771 | 16 |
| 1995 | #6,641 | 13 |
| 1994 | #5,249 | 18 |
| 1993 | #10,588 | 7 |
| 1992 | #11,738 | 6 |
| 1991 | #7,430 | 11 |
| 1990 | #6,131 | 14 |
| 1989 | #10,847 | 6 |
| 1988 | #7,691 | 9 |
| 1987 | #7,353 | 9 |
| 1986 | #4,964 | 15 |
| 1985 | #6,457 | 10 |
| 1984 | #5,899 | 11 |
| 1983 | #7,312 | 8 |
| 1982 | #6,888 | 9 |
| 1981 | #5,254 | 13 |
| 1980 | #4,978 | 14 |
| 1979 | #4,420 | 16 |
| 1978 | #4,931 | 13 |
| 1977 | #8,444 | 6 |
| 1976 | #5,601 | 10 |
| 1975 | #9,067 | 5 |
| 1974 | #6,258 | 8 |
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| 1971 | #6,006 | 8 |
| 1970 | #6,362 | 7 |
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| 1968 | #7,016 | 5 |
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| 1964 | #6,767 | 5 |
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| 1959 | #6,245 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Anela! It came in at #6,245, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1959–1969, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Anela is popular in 1999
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Hawaii#96 · 1 in 317
- California#3,120 · 1 in 43,811
Best ever in a state: #22 in Hawaii, 2025.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Hawaii | #96 | 11 | 1 in 317 |
| California | #3,120 | 5 | 1 in 43,811 |
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See more about Anela
- 118 spots since 2024 (#3,013 → #2,895)
- 1,110 spots since 2020 (#4,005 → #2,895)
- 755 spots since 2015 (#3,650 → #2,895)
- Debuted 1959
- Peaked 2003 at #2,368 (70 births)
- Births halved by 2018, 15 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 23,798 girls born in 2012 were named Anela (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 27,711 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #2,368 in 2003, was only 1 in 26,102 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 32.9% of all girls named Anela (590) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 5 | #6,245 (1959) | #6,245 |
| 1960s | 10 | #6,767 (1964) | #6,892 |
| 1970s | 73 | #4,420 (1979) | #6,386 |
| 1980s | 104 | #4,964 (1986) | #6,764 |
| 1990s | 169 | #3,831 (1998) | #6,564 |
| 2000s | 590 | #2,368 (2003) | #2,827 |
| 2010s | 545 | #2,474 (2012) | #3,211 |
| 2020s | 297 | #2,895 (2025) | #3,261 |
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.
Anela in 1999
Top girls' names in 1999
More about 1999
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1,773,823 girls got a published name in 1999; 1 in 59,127 of them was named Anela, which outranked 77.0% of the 16,947 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 10.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #3,804Yakira31
- #3,804Zachary31
- #3,804Zana31
- #3,895Anela30
- #3,895Andreanna30
- #3,895Anijah30
- #3,895Auburn30
- #3,970Adelyn29
- #3,970Aime29
- #3,970Ajia29
Tied with 74 names at #3,895; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.