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Anabella vs Anahi

American parents have registered 19,390 Anahis since 1880, against 6,768 Anabellas. Anahi is still ahead, with 623 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Anabella against Anahi, 1880 to 2025 0 300 600 900 1.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Anabella Anahi

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 51 years in which either name was published, Anahi for 46 years and Anabella for 5 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Anabella Anahi
Total US births 6,76819,390
Most in one year 5851,142
Babies in 2025 81623
Estimated living today 6,70019,000
Median age today 1317
Peak year 20142006
Best rank 529th girls290th girls
Rank in 2025 2,256th482nd
First recorded 19601976
Girls / boys 6,768 / 019,359 / 31

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Anahis alive today are over 17; half the Anabellas are over 13. That is 4 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Anabella Anahi
France 335180
England and Wales 39922

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Anabella and Anahi.