girls:
18.9k births since 1943
#1072 (81st percentile)
overall:
18.9k births since 1943
#1867 (76th percentile)
The name Anya is the #1,867 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 18,935 recorded births since 1943. This represents the 75.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 75.9% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,072 (81.3% percentile) for all time with 18,935 births since 1943.
Anya first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1943 (first recorded for girls in 1943). Birth data for Anya is available in 70 out of the 81 years between 1943 and 2023. 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.
For girls, Anya reached its peak popularity in 2009, achieving the 64.9% percentile (ranked #337) with 439 births per million. The name was most common in 2009, with 439 births per million (ranked 64.9% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2020, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Anya ranks #405 for girls (57.3% percentile) with 397 births per million, which is 90.4% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Anya".
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Our model has identified 8 different pronunciations for the name Anya. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 34.0% confident that Anya is pronounced as AH-nyuh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is A-nyuh, at 14.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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