Anilah

girls:

472 births since 2004

#5244 (8th percentile)

overall:

472 births since 2004

#7267 (6th percentile)

Popularity Trends

The name Anilah is the #7,267 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 472 recorded births since 2004. This represents the 6.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 6.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,244 (8.2% percentile) for all time with 472 births since 2004.

Anilah first appeared in U.S. birth records in 2004 (first recorded for girls in 2004).

For girls, Anilah reached its peak popularity in 2012, achieving the 3.7% percentile (ranked #902) with 21 births per million. The name was most common in 2012, with 21 births per million (ranked 3.7% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Anilah ranks #929 for girls (1.9% percentile) with 13 births per million, which is 63.8% of its peak share of births.

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Anilah".

2004 2023 20042023

Key Statistics

Total Births
472
Peak Births
40
Peak Year
2012
First Recorded
2004
Peak Percentile
3.7%
Current Percentile
1.9%
Peak Rank
#902
Current Rank
#929
Female statistics

How to Pronounce Anilah

Our model has identified 7 different pronunciations for the name Anilah. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.

Our model is 38.9% confident that Anilah is pronounced as uh-NEE-luh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is A-nih-luh, at 13.9% confidence, with 3 syllables.

A-nih-luh (3 syllables)
13.9% confidence
AE1 N IH0 L AH0
uh-NIH-luh (3 syllables)
13.9% confidence
AH0 N IH1 L AH0
ah-NIH-luh (3 syllables)
11.1% confidence
AA0 N IH1 L AH0
AH-nih-luh (3 syllables)
8.3% confidence
AA1 N IH0 L AH0
A-nih-lah (3 syllables)
8.3% confidence
AE1 N IH0 L AA0
ah-nih-LAH (3 syllables)
5.6% confidence
AA0 N IH0 L AA1

Possible Additional Pronunciations

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About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like AH0 N IY1 L AH0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.

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