Anniston
#1,525 for girls in 2025, 139 births
- Peak · girls
- 2014 · 302 births
- Debut · girls
- 7 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 3,660since 1996
Anniston over time
Rank among girls' names. Anniston has never cracked the top 800 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 | #1,525 | 139 |
| 2024 | #1,383 | 163 |
| 2023 | #1,344 | 168 |
| 2022 | #1,490 | 146 |
| 2021 | #1,249 | 188 |
| 2020 | #1,389 | 157 |
| 2019 | #1,203 | 194 |
| 2018 | #1,101 | 224 |
| 2017 | #1,082 | 234 |
| 2016 | #979 | 273 |
| 2015 | #1,038 | 256 |
| 2014 | #898 | 302 |
| 2013 | #1,165 | 206 |
| 2012 | #1,201 | 204 |
| 2011 | #1,382 | 165 |
| 2010 | #1,500 | 149 |
| 2009 | #2,204 | 89 |
| 2008 | #2,957 | 59 |
| 2007 | #3,214 | 53 |
| 2006 | #2,978 | 57 |
| 2005 | #3,646 | 40 |
| 2004 | #3,444 | 43 |
| 2003 | #4,109 | 32 |
| 2002 | #3,334 | 41 |
| 2001 | #6,067 | 18 |
| 2000 | #8,534 | 11 |
| 1999 | #5,039 | 21 |
| 1998 | #7,532 | 12 |
| 1997 | #9,017 | 9 |
| 1996 | #10,567 | 7 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Anniston! It came in at #10,567, and was given to 7 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1996–1997, when fewer than 10 girls a year got the name.
Where Anniston is popular in 1996
No state had 5 or more girls named Anniston in 1996, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Anniston
- 142 spots since 2024 (#1,383 → #1,525)
- 136 spots since 2020 (#1,389 → #1,525)
- 487 spots since 2015 (#1,038 → #1,525)
- Biggest jump: 267 spots in 2014 (#1,165 → #898)
- Biggest drop: 140 spots in 2015 (#898 → #1,038)
- Debuted 1996
- Peaked 2014 at #898 (302 births)
- Births halved by 2022, 8 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 2 yrs · 2014–2016
- Highest: 1 in 5,915 girls born in 2014 were named Anniston (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 11,563 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 60.3% of all girls named Anniston (2,207) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 49 | #5,039 (1999) | #8,039 |
| 2000s | 443 | #2,204 (2009) | #4,049 |
| 2010s | 2,207 | #898 (2014) | #1,155 |
| 2020s | 961 | #1,249 (2021) | #1,397 |
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.
Anniston in 1996
Top girls' names in 1996
More about 1996
girls
1,753,007 girls got a published name in 1996; 1 in 250,430 of them was named Anniston, which outranked 33.5% of the 15,894 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #9,581Zoraya8
- #9,581Zoua8
- #9,581Zykia8
- #10,567Anniston7
- #10,567Aaliyha7
- #10,567Aarianna7
- #10,567Aarionna7
- #11,807Aalayah6
- #11,807Aamna6
- #11,807Aarthi6
Tied with 1,239 names at #10,567; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.