Anna Girl
How popular is Anna?
#107 girl name in 2025
2,521 baby girls were named Anna in the US in 2025, making it the 107th most popular girl name.
Anna popularity over time
Boys Girls
| Rank in 2025 | #107 for girls (▼ 13 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 2,521 girls |
| 10-year trend | Falling fast (-51% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #44 in 2015, #68 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 1918 (15,666 girls) |
| Highest rank | #2 in 1880 (20 years at that rank) |
| First recorded | 1880 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 2% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Anna 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 Anna is most popular
Babies named Anna per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Vermont: 5.8 per 1,000 (28 girls)
- District of Columbia: 4.9 per 1,000 (58 girls)
- Maine: 4.1 per 1,000 (64 girls)
- New Hampshire: 4.1 per 1,000 (75 girls)
- Mississippi: 3.5 per 1,000 (165 girls)
Anna by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 38,159 | #2 |
| 1890s | 55,261 | #2 |
| 1900s | 54,918 | #3 |
| 1910s | 118,998 | #6 |
| 1920s | 123,895 | #10 |
| 1930s | 66,598 | #23 |
| 1940s | 41,282 | #51 |
| 1950s | 41,701 | #93 |
| 1960s | 40,935 | #91 |
| 1970s | 37,813 | #59 |
| 1980s | 57,327 | #51 |
| 1990s | 78,595 | #29 |
| 2000s | 90,325 | #19 |
| 2010s | 51,326 | #27 |
| 2020s | 17,726 | #68 |
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Questions
- Is Anna a boy or girl name?
- Anna is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Anna were girls.
- How popular is the name Anna?
- 2,521 baby girls were named Anna in the US in 2025, making it the 107th most popular girl name.
- When was Anna most popular?
- Anna peaked in 1918, when 15,666 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #2, held for 20 years starting in 1880.
- How many people are named Anna?
- 917,615 babies have been named Anna in the US since 1880. We estimate about 447,093 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 35.
- Where is Anna most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Anna was most common in Vermont, at 5.8 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.