Anijah
#6,546 for girls in 2025, 17 births
- Peak · girls
- 2005 · 103 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,392since 1994
Anijah over time
Rank among girls' names. Anijah 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 | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #6,546 | 17 |
| 2024 | #6,394 | 18 |
| 2023 | #6,409 | 18 |
| 2022 | #9,680 | 10 |
| 2021 | #8,978 | 11 |
| 2020 | #6,325 | 18 |
| 2019 | #5,449 | 23 |
| 2018 | #5,152 | 25 |
| 2017 | #5,517 | 23 |
| 2016 | #5,622 | 23 |
| 2015 | #4,488 | 31 |
| 2014 | #4,003 | 37 |
| 2013 | #4,156 | 35 |
| 2012 | #3,213 | 51 |
| 2011 | #2,589 | 69 |
| 2010 | #1,928 | 104 |
| 2009 | #2,148 | 93 |
| 2008 | #2,122 | 95 |
| 2007 | #2,433 | 77 |
| 2006 | #2,127 | 91 |
| 2005 | #1,878 | 103 |
| 2004 | #1,909 | 98 |
| 2003 | #2,167 | 80 |
| 2002 | #2,199 | 75 |
| 2001 | #2,881 | 50 |
| 2000 | #3,070 | 45 |
| 1999 | #3,895 | 30 |
| 1998 | #6,073 | 16 |
| 1997 | #6,844 | 13 |
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| 1995 | #10,514 | 7 |
| 1994 | #11,778 | 6 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Anijah! It came in at #11,778, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1996, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Anijah is popular in 2003
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Louisiana#734 · 1 in 4,153
- Maryland#787 · 1 in 4,849
- Virginia#881 · 1 in 6,006
- North Carolina#1,061 · 1 in 7,250
- Ohio#1,303 · 1 in 11,656
Best ever in a state: #406 in Connecticut, 2001.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Louisiana | #734 | 5 | 1 in 4,153 |
| Maryland | #787 | 5 | 1 in 4,849 |
| Virginia | #881 | 6 | 1 in 6,006 |
| North Carolina | #1,061 | 6 | 1 in 7,250 |
| Ohio | #1,303 | 5 | 1 in 11,656 |
| New York | #1,381 | 9 | 1 in 10,901 |
| Georgia | #1,420 | 5 | 1 in 9,948 |
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See more about Anijah
- 152 spots since 2024 (#6,394 → #6,546)
- 221 spots since 2020 (#6,325 → #6,546)
- 2,058 spots since 2015 (#4,488 → #6,546)
- Debuted 1994
- Peaked 2005 at #1,878 (103 births)
- Births halved by 2012, 7 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 17,092 girls born in 2010 were named Anijah (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 94,545 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,878 in 2005, was only 1 in 17,940 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 58.0% of all girls named Anijah (807) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 72 | #3,895 (1999) | #7,821 |
| 2000s | 807 | #1,878 (2005) | #2,293 |
| 2010s | 421 | #1,928 (2010) | #4,212 |
| 2020s | 92 | #6,325 (2020) | #7,389 |
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.
Anijah in 2003
Top girls' names in 2003
More about 2003
girls
1,827,145 girls got a published name in 2003; 1 in 22,839 of them was named Anijah, which outranked 88.2% 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).
- #2,144Shyanna81
- #2,144Stefani81
- #2,144Tamiya81
- #2,167Anijah80
- #2,167Adalyn80
- #2,167Andria80
- #2,167Anja80
- #2,187Azul79
- #2,187Cami79
- #2,187Dymond79
Tied with 19 names at #2,167; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.