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Anuhea vs Anum

American parents have registered 614 Anums since 1880, against 523 Anuheas. But in 2025 it was Anuhea that was commoner, 15 babies to 7.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Anuhea against Anum, 1880 to 2025 0 10 20 30 40 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Anuhea Anum

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 38 years in which either name was published, Anum for 22 years and Anuhea for 16 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.

Side by side

  Anuhea Anum
Total US births 523614
Most in one year 3732
Babies in 2025 157
Estimated living today 520610
Median age today 1122
Peak year 20151992
Best rank 3,989th girls3,419th girls
Rank in 2025 7,133rd11,932nd
First recorded 19951988
Girls / boys 523 / 0614 / 0

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 Anums alive today are over 22; half the Anuheas are over 11. That is 11 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.

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