Anaiah

What Anaiah means

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

Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1983, with 6 babies Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Anaiah?

US: Rising: up from #1677 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #1649 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2025, when 318 girls got the name (#853 that year). First in the US records in 1983.

How common

• About 1 in 5,054 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 2,533 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 5,964 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 MA (0.58 per 1,000 girls), FL (0.54 per 1,000 girls), MD (0.4 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

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

US vs UK

Anaiah is #853 in the US and #408 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 Anaiah were girls.

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

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Anaia183 US · 14 E&W
• Ania69 US · 11 E&W
• Aniah48 US · 4 E&W
• Annia39 US
• Annaiah9 US
• Anniah5 US

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 Anaiah

Girls

• Sarai#424“master, chief”^*
• Lydia#92“the region of Lydia”^*
• Azariah#630“Yah Has Helped”^*
• Eve#519Editor’s note Down from #470 in 2015 to #519 in 2025 in the US
• Naomi#47“my pleasantness”^*
• Ezra#833Editor’s note Up from #1,199 in 2015 to #833 in 2025 in the US

For a brother

• Noah#2Editor’s note Steady in the US: #1 in 2015 and #2 in 2025. About 1 in 84 US boys in the 2025 records
• Elijah#7“Yahweh is my god”^*
• Malachi#134“my messenger”^*
• Elisha#788Editor’s note Used for both: 85% of US babies named Elisha in 2025 were boys
• Isaias#426Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #426 vs #3,256 in 2025
• Jonah#128“dove”^*

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