Anaya

What Anaya means

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

Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #86 vs #336 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Anaya?

US: Rising: up from #407 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #127 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2025, when 911 girls got the name (#336 that year). First in the US records in 1978.

How common

• About 1 in 1,764 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 473 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 895 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 MD (1.3 per 1,000 girls), NJ (1.21 per 1,000 girls), NY (1.16 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

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

US vs UK

Anaya is #336 in the US and #86 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 Anaya were girls.

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

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Anya821 US · 155 E&W
• Aniyah618 US · 62 E&W
• Inaya350 US · 295 E&W
• Anayah289 US · 156 E&W
• Inayah107 US · 161 E&W
• Aniya226 US · 24 E&W
• Annya208 US
• Inaaya45 US · 43 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 Anaya

Girls

• Riley#48“rye + clearing, meadow”^*
• Rylee#137Variant of Riley, meaning “rye + clearing, meadow”^*
• Madelyn#70Editor’s note Down from #59 in 2015 to #70 in 2025 in the US
• Lily#18Diminutive of Lilian, possibly meaning “lily”^*
• Olivia#1“olive; olive branch”^*
• Amaya#180“the end”^*

For a brother

• Malachi#134“my messenger”^*
• Zion#142Editor’s note Up from #227 in 2015 to #142 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 680 US boys in the 2025 records
• Owen#31Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #31 vs #170 in 2025
• Xander#259Diminutive of Alexander, meaning “to defend + man”^*
• Elijah#7“Yahweh is my god”^*
• Amari#185“Does the given name have different origins?”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Anaya’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.