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Anyia vs Anyla

American parents have registered 2,795 Anylas since 1880, against 895 Anyias. Anyla is still ahead, with 131 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Anyia against Anyla, 1880 to 2025 0 50 100 150 200 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Anyia Anyla

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 31 years in which either name was published, Anyla for 20 years and Anyia for 11 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Anyia Anyla
Total US births 8952,795
Most in one year 76166
Babies in 2025 8131
Estimated living today 8902,800
Median age today 199
Peak year 20062019
Best rank 2,438th girls1,357th girls
Rank in 2025 10,917th1,592nd
First recorded 19931998
Girls / boys 895 / 02,795 / 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 Anyias alive today are over 19; half the Anylas are over 9. That is 10 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: Anyia and Anyla.