Anecia vs Anel
American parents have registered 2,141 Anels since 1880, against 650 Anecias. Anel is still ahead, with 7 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Anecia Anel
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 59 years in which either name was published, Anel for 55 years and Anecia for 4 years. The lead changed hands once.
Side by side
| Anecia | Anel | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 650 | 2,141 |
| Most in one year | 31 | 76 |
| Babies in 2025 | under 5 | 7 |
| Estimated living today | 640 | 2,100 |
| Median age today | 27 | 29 |
| Peak year | 1999 | 1991 |
| Best rank | 3,804th girls | 1,857th girls |
| Rank in 2025 | unranked | 11,932nd |
| First recorded | 1961 | 1971 |
| Girls / boys | 650 / 0 | 1,877 / 264 |
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 Anels alive today are over 29; half the Anecias are over 27. That is 2 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Anecia and Anel.