Ana

What Ana means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Ana yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Down from #211 in 2015 to #245 in 2025 in the US Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Ana?

US: Falling: down from #211 in 2015. England & Wales: Falling: down from #296 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2003, when 2,595 girls got the name (#129 that year). First in the US records in 1880.

How common

• About 1 in 1,260 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 2,783 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 2,236 baby girls in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in AZ (2.73 per 1,000 girls), TX (1.86 per 1,000 girls), CT (1.56 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Ana is #245 in the US and #439 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Ana were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Anna2,521 US · 347 E&W
• Aarna137 US · 28 E&W
• Una49 US · 84 E&W
• Ina66 US · 12 E&W
• Ani56 US · 15 E&W
• Anny59 US
• Ena44 US · 10 E&W
• Anni19 US · 13 E&W

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Ana

Girls

• Angelica#707Italian, meaning “angelic”^*
• Bianca#500Form of Blanche, meaning “white”^*
• Alejandra#604Same root as Alexandra, meaning “to defend + man”^*
• Andrea#235Feminine form of Andreas, meaning “manly”^*
• Angel#546Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 2002, with 3,100 babies; 551 in 2025
• Carmen#389Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1960, with 2,440 babies; 798 in 2025

For a brother

• Salvador#754“savior”^*
• Francisco#322Same root as Francis, meaning “Frankish (man); a Frank”^*
• Pedro#455“stone, rock”^*
• Felipe#955Spanish and Portuguese, meaning “fond of horses”^*
• Jaime#657Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1980, with 1,462 babies; 420 in 2025
• Jose#95Same root as Joseph, meaning “(God) shall add”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under Slavic, Spanish & Italian, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Ana’s. Rank is US 2025.