girls:
3k births since 1958
#3148 (45th percentile)
boys:
5 births since 2007
#4581 (0th percentile)
overall:
3k births since 1958
#4921 (36th percentile)
The name Ani is the #4,921 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,048 recorded births since 1958. This represents the 36.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 36.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #3,148 (44.9% percentile) for all time with 3,043 births since 1958. For boys, it ranks #4,581 (0.0% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 2007.
Ani first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1958 (1958 for girls and 2007 for boys). Birth data for Ani is available in 59 out of the 66 years between 1958 and 2023 (59 years for girls and 1 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 Ani has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.8% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Ani reached its peak popularity in 2007, achieving the 11.9% percentile (ranked #870) with 58 births per million. The name was most common in 2007, with 58 births per million (ranked 11.9% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Ani ranks #881 for girls (7.0% percentile) with 41 births per million, which is 70.4% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Ani reached its peak popularity in 2007, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #883) with 2 births per million. The name was most common in 2007, with 2 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2007.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Ani".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Ani. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 48.8% confident that Ani is pronounced as AH-nee, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is A-nee, at 26.8% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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