Anayah

What Anayah means

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

Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #290 vs #913 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Anayah?

US: Rising: up from #1239 in 2015. England & Wales: Steady: #286 in 2015, #290 now.

Biggest US share so far: 2025, when 289 girls got the name (#913 that year). First in the US records in 1996.

How common

• About 1 in 5,561 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 1,624 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 4,473 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 ME (1.61 per 1,000 girls), MA (0.71 per 1,000 girls), FL (0.61 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

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

US vs UK

Anayah is #913 in the US and #290 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 Anayah were girls.

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

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Anaya911 US · 535 E&W
• Anya821 US · 155 E&W
• Aniyah618 US · 62 E&W
• Inaya350 US · 295 E&W
• Inayah107 US · 161 E&W
• Aniya226 US · 24 E&W
• Annya208 US
• Anaiyah58 US · 24 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 Anayah

Girls

• Madelyn#70Editor’s note Down from #59 in 2015 to #70 in 2025 in the US
• Nyla#236Editor’s note Up from #326 in 2015 to #236 in 2025 in the US
• Rylee#137Variant of Riley, meaning “rye + clearing, meadow”^*
• Ailani#168Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #1,199 in 2015, #168 in 2025
• Amaya#180“the end”^*
• Lily#18Diminutive of Lilian, possibly meaning “lily”^*

For a brother

• Owen#31Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #31 vs #170 in 2025
• 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
• Amari#185“Does the given name have different origins?”^*
• Jack#15Short form of John, possibly meaning “God is gracious”^*
• 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
• Elijah#7“Yahweh is my god”^*

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 Anayah’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.