girls:
2.8k births since 1983
#3259 (43rd percentile)
boys:
12 births since 2009
#4574 (0th percentile)
overall:
2.8k births since 1983
#5066 (35th percentile)
The name Anaiah is the #5,066 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,847 recorded births since 1983. This represents the 34.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 34.5% of all names). For girls, it ranks #3,259 (43.0% percentile) for all time with 2,835 births since 1983. For boys, it ranks #4,574 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 12 births since 2009.
Anaiah first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1983 (1983 for girls and 2009 for boys). Birth data for Anaiah is available in 30 out of the 41 years between 1983 and 2023 (30 years for girls and 2 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Anaiah has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.6% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Anaiah reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 23.2% percentile (ranked #728) with 128 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 128 births per million (ranked 23.2% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2019, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Anaiah is at or near its peak popularity for girls, ranked #728 (23.2% percentile) with 128 births per million.
For boys, Anaiah reached its peak popularity in 2013, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #887) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2013, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2013.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Anaiah".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Anaiah. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 56.3% confident that Anaiah is pronounced as uh-NAI-uh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is uh-NAY-uh, at 25.0% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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