Ani
#2,957 for girls in 2025, 56 births · Last seen for boys in 2007 at #12,367
Given to girls 99.8% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2004 · 115 births
- Debut · girls
- 7 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 3,183since 1958
Ani over time
Rank among girls' names. Ani 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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,957 | 56 | — | |
| 2024 | #2,303 | 80 | — | |
| 2023 | #2,442 | 73 | — | |
| 2022 | #2,346 | 79 | — | |
| 2021 | #2,558 | 68 | — | |
| 2020 | #2,216 | 81 | — | |
| 2019 | #2,217 | 83 | — | |
| 2018 | #2,610 | 66 | — | |
| 2017 | #2,508 | 71 | — | |
| 2016 | #2,093 | 93 | — | |
| 2015 | #2,351 | 78 | — | |
| 2014 | #1,967 | 101 | — | |
| 2013 | #2,364 | 77 | — | |
| 2012 | #2,654 | 67 | — | |
| 2011 | #2,274 | 82 | — | |
| 2010 | #2,386 | 79 | — | |
| 2009 | #1,947 | 107 | — | |
| 2008 | #1,966 | 107 | — | |
| 2007 | #1,760 | 122 | #12,367 | 5 |
| 2006 | #1,894 | 107 | — | |
| 2005 | #1,704 | 116 | — | |
| 2004 | #1,684 | 115 | — | |
| 2003 | #1,720 | 110 | — | |
| 2002 | #1,915 | 92 | — | |
| 2001 | #2,211 | 73 | — | |
| 2000 | #1,900 | 89 | — | |
| 1999 | #2,854 | 47 | — | |
| 1998 | #2,498 | 55 | — | |
| 1997 | #2,590 | 49 | — | |
| 1996 | #2,510 | 50 | — | |
| 1995 | #2,345 | 56 | — | |
| 1994 | #3,098 | 37 | — | |
| 1993 | #2,417 | 52 | — | |
| 1992 | #2,386 | 54 | — | |
| 1991 | #2,738 | 43 | — | |
| 1990 | #2,737 | 42 | — | |
| 1989 | #2,931 | 37 | — | |
| 1988 | #3,393 | 28 | — | |
| 1987 | #3,101 | 30 | — | |
| 1986 | #3,360 | 26 | — | |
| 1985 | #3,517 | 24 | — | |
| 1984 | #2,915 | 30 | — | |
| 1983 | #3,065 | 27 | — | |
| 1982 | #3,647 | 22 | — | |
| 1981 | #3,340 | 25 | — | |
| 1980 | #3,853 | 20 | — | |
| 1979 | #4,231 | 17 | — | |
| 1978 | #3,512 | 21 | — | |
| 1977 | #5,888 | 10 | — | |
| 1976 | #4,614 | 13 | — | |
| 1975 | #6,484 | 8 | — | |
| 1974 | #3,695 | 17 | — | |
| 1973 | #7,435 | 6 | — | |
| 1972 | #5,959 | 8 | — | |
| 1971 | #4,810 | 11 | — | |
| 1970 | #7,995 | 5 | — | |
| 1969 | #5,057 | 9 | — | |
| 1968 | #4,779 | 9 | — | |
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| 1965 | #4,202 | 10 | — | |
| 1964 | #6,009 | 6 | — | |
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| 1958 | #4,890 | 7 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Ani! It came in at #4,890, and was given to 7 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1959–1963, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Ani is popular in 2016
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Massachusetts#670 · 1 in 3,640
- New Jersey#1,168 · 1 in 7,315
- California#1,184 · 1 in 8,149
- Virginia#1,200 · 1 in 7,428
- Illinois#1,428 · 1 in 9,604
Best ever in a state: #580 in Massachusetts, 2020.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Massachusetts | #670 | 7 | 1 in 3,640 |
| New Jersey | #1,168 | 5 | 1 in 7,315 |
| California | #1,184 | 25 | 1 in 8,149 |
| Virginia | #1,200 | 5 | 1 in 7,428 |
| Illinois | #1,428 | 6 | 1 in 9,604 |
| New York | #1,732 | 7 | 1 in 12,834 |
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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 Ani
- 654 spots since 2024 (#2,303 → #2,957)
- 741 spots since 2020 (#2,216 → #2,957)
- 606 spots since 2015 (#2,351 → #2,957)
- Debuted 1958
- Peaked 2004 at #1,684 (115 births)
- Births halved by 2025, 21 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 15,759 girls born in 2007 were named Ani (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 28,701 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,684 in 2004, was only 1 in 15,967 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 32.6% of all girls named Ani (1,038) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 7 | #4,890 (1958) | #4,890 |
| 1960s | 34 | #4,202 (1965) | #5,012 |
| 1970s | 116 | #3,512 (1978) | #5,462 |
| 1980s | 269 | #2,915 (1984) | #3,312 |
| 1990s | 485 | #2,345 (1995) | #2,617 |
| 2000s | 1,038 | #1,684 (2004) | #1,870 |
| 2010s | 797 | #1,967 (2014) | #2,342 |
| 2020s | 437 | #2,216 (2020) | #2,470 |
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.
Ani in 2016
Top girls' names in 2016
More about 2016
girls
1,772,022 girls got a published name in 2016; 1 in 19,054 of them was named Ani, which outranked 88.9% of the 18,885 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,084Marli94
- #2,084Raizy94
- #2,084Susannah94
- #2,093Ani93
- #2,093Armoni93
- #2,093Audrie93
- #2,093Beckett93
- #2,117Adelia92
- #2,117Austen92
- #2,117Jailynn92
Tied with 23 names at #2,093; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.