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Aanya

Girls' name · Current · Sanskrit origin

Living in the US
~3,700 survival-weighted estimate
2025 rank
#1,666 among girls
Births in 2025
124 3,732 since 1880
Typical age
11 years, median

Aanya popularity over time

Aanya rank by birth year, 1998–2025Aanya ranked #14,122 in 1998 and #1,666 in 2025. Its best rank in the period was #997, in 2014.#1,000#10,000#1,666best #997 in 2014200020052010201520202025
Rank among US baby names by birth year, 1998–2025. Lower is more popular; the scale is logarithmic so the top of the chart is not compressed.

The high point was 2014: 266 births recorded as Aanya. The name does not appear in the data until 1998. The 2025 position is #1,666, on 124 births.

The ten-year change is -48%. Year on year the rank dropped by 91.

Babies named Aanya per yearPeaks at 266 births in 2014.266 in 20140200020052010201520202025
Recorded US births by year. The peak is labelled; the axis starts at zero.

How many people are named Aanya?

Roughly 3,700 Aanyas are alive in the US right now. That is out of 3,732 recorded births since 1880.

This is a survival-weighted estimate, not a headcount: every recorded birth year is multiplied by the chance someone born that year is still alive, using the SSA period life table. How the estimate works.

How old is the average Aanya?

Median age among living Aanyas: 11. Most living bearers were born in the 2010s. By the site’s era rules that makes Aanya a current name.

Your Aanya

Ages of living people named AanyaHalf of living Aanyas are older than 11 and half younger.median 11020
Estimated living bearers by age today. Each bar is a birth year, weighted by the chance someone born then is still alive.

Where Aanya is most common

The name is concentrated in New Jersey, at 4.0× the national rate. Washington, Virginia and Massachusetts follow.

Where Aanya is used more than average5 states use the name Aanya more than the national average.Alaska: not over-representedAKMaine: not over-representedMEVermont: not over-representedVTNew Hampshire: not over-representedNHWashington: 2.9× the national rateWAIdaho: not over-representedIDMontana: not over-representedMTNorth Dakota: not over-representedNDMinnesota: not over-representedMNIllinois: 1.6× the national rateILWisconsin: not over-representedWIMichigan: not over-representedMINew York: not over-representedNYOregon: not over-representedORNevada: not over-representedNVWyoming: not over-representedWYSouth Dakota: not over-representedSDIowa: not over-representedIAIndiana: not over-representedINOhio: not over-representedOHPennsylvania: not over-representedPANew Jersey: 4.0× the national rateNJConnecticut: not over-representedCTRhode Island: not over-representedRICalifornia: not over-representedCAUtah: not over-representedUTColorado: not over-representedCONebraska: not over-representedNEMissouri: not over-representedMOKentucky: not over-representedKYWest Virginia: not over-representedWVVirginia: 1.9× the national rateVAMaryland: not over-representedMDDelaware: not over-representedDEMassachusetts: 1.9× the national rateMAArizona: not over-representedAZNew Mexico: not over-representedNMKansas: not over-representedKSArkansas: not over-representedARTennessee: not over-representedTNNorth Carolina: not over-representedNCSouth Carolina: not over-representedSCDistrict of Columbia: not over-representedDCOklahoma: not over-representedOKLouisiana: not over-representedLAMississippi: not over-representedMSAlabama: not over-representedALGeorgia: not over-representedGAHawaii: not over-representedHITexas: not over-representedTXFlorida: not over-representedFL
Same as national3× or more
Location quotient, 2016–2025. Shaded states use the name more than the country does, relative to their own births. Exact figures are in the table below.
States where Aanya is over-represented, 2016–2025. The location quotient compares the state's share of the name with the national share.
StateBirthsvs national rate
New Jersey 139 4.0×
Washington 83 2.9×
Virginia 63 1.9×
Massachusetts 44 1.9×
Illinois 77 1.6×

Aanya in England and Wales

ONS recorded 39 births named Aanya in 2025, ranking it #894. That is 50% higher than five years earlier.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Counts below three are suppressed by ONS.

Where the name Aanya comes from

English Wiktionary: given name from Sanskrit.

See how Sanskrit names are used in American and British births on the Sanskrit names page.

Names similar to Aanya

Matched by sound and spelling inside this dataset, then ordered by total recorded births. This is not a claim about shared etymology.

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