girls:
2.5k births since 1998
#3495 (39th percentile)
boys:
19 births since 2009
#4567 (0th percentile)
overall:
2.5k births since 1998
#5359 (31st percentile)
The name Aniston is the #5,359 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,475 recorded births since 1998. This represents the 30.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 30.7% of all names). For girls, it ranks #3,495 (38.8% percentile) for all time with 2,456 births since 1998. For boys, it ranks #4,567 (0.3% percentile) for all time with 19 births since 2009.
Aniston first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1998 (1998 for girls and 2009 for boys).
The name Aniston has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.2% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Aniston reached its peak popularity in 2011, achieving the 18.5% percentile (ranked #766) with 92 births per million. The name was most common in 2011, with 92 births per million (ranked 18.5% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2015, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Aniston ranks #879 for girls (7.2% percentile) with 42 births per million, which is 45.2% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Aniston reached its peak popularity in 2013, achieving the 0.3% percentile (ranked #885) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 2013, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.3% 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 "Aniston".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Aniston", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 16 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Anniston" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Anniston..
Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Aniston. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 40.0% confident that Aniston is pronounced as A-nih-stuhn, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is A-nuh-stuhn, at 24.4% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like AE1 N IH0 S T AH0 N) 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.
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