Anya

What Anya means

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

Editor’s note Up from #550 in 2015 to #375 in 2025 in the US Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Anya?

US: Rising: up from #550 in 2015. England & Wales: Falling: down from #172 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2025, when 821 girls got the name (#375 that year). First in the US records in 1943.

How common

• About 1 in 1,958 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 1,634 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 1,789 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 AK (3.02 per 1,000 girls), AZ (1.31 per 1,000 girls), NV (1.2 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

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

US vs UK

Anya is #375 in the US and #291 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 Anya 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
• Aniyah618 US · 62 E&W
• Inaya350 US · 295 E&W
• Anayah289 US · 156 E&W
• Aniya226 US · 24 E&W
• Annya208 US
• Enya36 US · 47 E&W
• Anaiya44 US · 25 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 Anya

Girls

• Maya#62Editor’s note Steady in the US: #68 in 2015 and #62 in 2025. About 1 in 430 US girls in the 2025 records
• Alana#140Form of Elon, meaning “oak tree”^*
• Ava#11Editor’s note Down from #4 in 2015 to #11 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 210 US girls in the 2025 records
• Alayna#332Editor’s note Down from #223 in 2015 to #332 in 2025 in the US
• Lila#186“lilac”^*
• Brynn#407Editor’s note Down from #259 in 2015 to #407 in 2025 in the US

For a brother

• Rohan#810“to ascend”^*
• Aiden#62Variant of Aidan, meaning “fire”^*
• Owen#31Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #31 vs #170 in 2025
• Ayden#257Variant of Aidan, meaning “fire”^*
• Ishaan#893Editor’s note Up from #918 in 2015 to #893 in 2025 in the US
• Lochlan#644Editor’s note Up from #841 in 2015 to #644 in 2025 in the US

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