Anela vs Anetta

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Anela Anetta

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 110 years in which either name was published, Anetta for 59 years and Anela for 51 years. The lead changed hands 7 times.

• 1902–1969 Anetta ahead
• 1970 Anela ahead
• 1971–1973 Anetta ahead
• 1974–1975 Anela ahead
• 1976 Anetta ahead
• 1977–1982 Anela ahead
• 1983 Anetta ahead
• 1984–2025 Anela ahead

Side by side

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 Anettas alive today are over 63; half the Anelas are over 16. That is 47 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

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

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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