Ana Girl
How popular is Ana?
#245 girl name in 2025
1,276 baby girls were named Ana in the US in 2025, making it the 245th most popular girl name.
Ana popularity over time
Boys Girls
| Rank in 2025 | #245 for girls (▼ 41 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 1,276 girls |
| 10-year trend | Falling (-18% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #211 in 2015, #244 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 1991 (2,652 girls) |
| Highest rank | #119 in 1991 |
| First recorded | 1880 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.9% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Ana counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Anna family of names ranked #77 for girls in 2025 (#69 the year before), with 3,872 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Anna | 2,521 | 65% |
| Ana | 1,276 | 33% |
| Anai | 29 | 1% |
| Ahna | 25 | 1% |
| Annah | 16 | 0% |
| Ahnna | 5 | 0% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Ana is most popular
Babies named Ana per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Arizona: 2.3 per 1,000 (326 girls)
- Texas: 1.8 per 1,000 (1,485 girls)
- New Mexico: 1.5 per 1,000 (37 girls)
- Alabama: 1.5 per 1,000 (137 girls)
- Florida: 1.3 per 1,000 (568 girls)
Ana by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 78 | #582 |
| 1890s | 110 | #667 |
| 1900s | 157 | #699 |
| 1910s | 367 | #741 |
| 1920s | 710 | #764 |
| 1930s | 752 | #690 |
| 1940s | 1,338 | #544 |
| 1950s | 3,930 | #393 |
| 1960s | 7,844 | #286 |
| 1970s | 11,217 | #211 |
| 1980s | 15,530 | #131 |
| 1990s | 23,541 | #119 |
| 2000s | 23,203 | #129 |
| 2010s | 14,543 | #197 |
| 2020s | 8,039 | #204 |
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Questions
- Is Ana a boy or girl name?
- Ana is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Ana were girls.
- How popular is the name Ana?
- 1,276 baby girls were named Ana in the US in 2025, making it the 245th most popular girl name.
- When was Ana most popular?
- Ana peaked in 1991, when 2,652 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #119 in 1991.
- How many people are named Ana?
- 111,960 babies have been named Ana in the US since 1880. We estimate about 106,278 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 30.
- Where is Ana most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Ana was most common in Arizona, at 2.3 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.