Anya Girl
How popular is Anya?
#375 girl name in 2025
821 baby girls were named Anya in the US in 2025, making it the 375th most popular girl name.
Anya popularity over time
| Rank in 2025 | #375 for girls (▲ 19 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 821 girls |
| 10-year trend | Rising (+46% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #550 in 2015, #657 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2007 (895 girls) |
| Highest rank | #363 in 2009 |
| First recorded | 1943 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.6% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Anya counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Anya family of names ranked #253 for girls in 2025 (#254 the year before), with 1,336 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Anya | 821 | 61% |
| Aanya | 124 | 9% |
| Ania | 69 | 5% |
| Aniah | 48 | 4% |
| Annya | 208 | 16% |
| Anyah | 22 | 2% |
| Annia | 39 | 3% |
| Anniah | 5 | 0% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Anya is most popular
Babies named Anya per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Washington: 1.0 per 1,000 (150 girls)
- Nevada: 1.0 per 1,000 (45 girls)
- Massachusetts: 0.8 per 1,000 (101 girls)
- Arizona: 0.7 per 1,000 (104 girls)
- Connecticut: 0.7 per 1,000 (43 girls)
Anya by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 10 | #4,690 |
| 1950s | 34 | #3,185 |
| 1960s | 232 | #1,897 |
| 1970s | 522 | #1,537 |
| 1980s | 1,328 | #556 |
| 1990s | 1,495 | #690 |
| 2000s | 6,877 | #363 |
| 2010s | 6,089 | #394 |
| 2020s | 3,974 | #375 |
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Questions
- Is Anya a boy or girl name?
- Anya is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Anya were girls.
- How popular is the name Anya?
- 821 baby girls were named Anya in the US in 2025, making it the 375th most popular girl name.
- When was Anya most popular?
- Anya peaked in 2007, when 895 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #363 in 2009.
- How many people are named Anya?
- 20,561 babies have been named Anya in the US since 1880. We estimate about 20,332 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 17.
- Where is Anya most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Anya was most common in Washington, at 1.0 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.