Anniston Girl
How popular is Anniston?
#1,525 girl name in 2025
139 baby girls were named Anniston in the US in 2025, making it the 1525th most popular girl name.
Anniston popularity over time
| Rank in 2025 | #1,525 for girls (▼ 142 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 139 girls |
| 10-year trend | Falling (-46% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #1,038 in 2015, #1,389 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2014 (302 girls) |
| Highest rank | #898 in 2014 |
| First recorded | 1996 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.1% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Anniston counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Anniston family of names ranked #832 for girls in 2025 (#778 the year before), with 281 babies in all.
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 Anniston is most popular
Babies named Anniston per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Kentucky: 0.7 per 1,000 (64 girls)
- Louisiana: 0.5 per 1,000 (46 girls)
- Tennessee: 0.5 per 1,000 (80 girls)
- Mississippi: 0.5 per 1,000 (22 girls)
- Alabama: 0.4 per 1,000 (39 girls)
Anniston by decade
Girl names about as popular as Anniston
Questions
- Is Anniston a boy or girl name?
- Anniston is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Anniston were girls.
- How popular is the name Anniston?
- 139 baby girls were named Anniston in the US in 2025, making it the 1525th most popular girl name.
- When was Anniston most popular?
- Anniston peaked in 2014, when 302 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #898 in 2014.
- How many people are named Anniston?
- 3,660 babies have been named Anniston in the US since 1880. We estimate about 3,640 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 10.
- Where is Anniston most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Anniston was most common in Kentucky, at 0.7 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.