Anayah

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Anayah: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Anayah: Recorded since 2000, it reached #256 in 2016, and it stood at #320 in 2024.

4registrars recorded it
26times a registrar ranked it
25years from first to last
#256highest recorded position
9groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 2000–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2000	#3912
2004	#3197
2005	#3970
2006	#4157
2007	#2895
2008	#1584
2009	#879
2010	#821
2011	#804
2012	#607
2013	#415
2014	#258
2015	#286
2016	#256
2017	#331
2018	#390
2019	#377
2020	#452
2021	#431
2022	#412
2023	#370
2024	#320

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in 22 of the 25 years from 2000 to 2024.

In 2024: #320 among girls in England and Wales, #407 among girls in Northern Ireland, #541 among girls in Scotland, #631 among girls in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 2000–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded2000
First recorded at #3912 among girls in England and Wales in 2000 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded2000–2024
Highest recorded position: #256 among girls in England and Wales, in 2016 (recorded 2000–2024).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #320 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Anayah appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 22 years beginning in 2000, and has registered 1,812 births with the name.

Anayah across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Anayah's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#3912 (2000)	#256 (2016)	#320 (2024)	22 of 25	1,812 (2000–2024)	197 (2016)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#905 (2022)	#631 (2024)	#631 (2024)	2 of 3	8 (2022–2024)	5 (2024)

Anayah by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Anayah in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
2000s	78	7 of 10	11
2010sbusiest	1,190	10 of 10	119
2020s	544	5 of 10	109

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 119 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2013 and 2014, when recorded births rose by 87, from 102 to 189.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Anayah appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 2000 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #256 in England and Wales in 2016.

Anayah's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#320	136	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#370	113	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#412	103	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#431	101	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#452	91	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#377	116	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#390	114	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#331	144	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#256	197	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#286	169	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#258	189	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#415	102	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#607	69	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#804	46	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#821	44	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#879	38	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#1584	17	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#2895	7	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#4157	4	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#3970	4	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#3197	5	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#3912	3	High	Verified
2024	Northern Ireland	female	#407	3	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#631	5	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	female	#905	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#541	5	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 4 registrars between 2000 and 2024, ranked in 22 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #256, first reached in 2016.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 197 births, registered in England and Wales in 2016.

Its record falls into 2 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 3 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2022, and 24 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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Anbjørg · #224, 18y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 4 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Lilly-Mae · #257, 25y
Bowie · #258, 21y
Alaia · #262, 20y
Antonina · #249, 24y

Also first recorded in the 2000s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 2000 and 2009.

Milosz · #256, 20y
Lilly-Mae · #257, 25y
Bowie · #258, 21y
Favour · #254, 25y

Anayah was ranked #256 in England and Wales · Girls in 2016. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Anayah and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Anayah without appearing here.

Anayah moved ahead of

Debra Compare
In 2007 they stood at #4157 and #4157 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2008 that had become #1584 and #5545.
Freddie Compare
In 2007 they stood at #4157 and #3548 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2008 that had become #1584 and #5545.
Therese Compare
In 2007 they stood at #2895 and #2895 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2008 that had become #1584 and #5545.
Finn Compare
In 2009 they stood at #3970 and #3382 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2010 that had become #821 and #4688.

Moved ahead of Anayah

Harper Compare
In 2011 they stood at #804 and #858 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #607 and #284.

Moved the opposite way to Anayah

Abigail Compare
Between 2000 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Anayah went from #3912 to #320 while Abigail went from #19 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 2000 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Anayah went from #3912 to #320 while Aimee went from #72 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 2000 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Anayah went from #3912 to #320 while Aisling went from #443 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 2000 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Anayah went from #3912 to #320 while Alex went from #186 to #2253.

Moved the same way as Anayah

Ada Compare
Between 2000 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Anayah went from #3912 to #320 and Ada from #1831 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 2000 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Anayah went from #3912 to #320 and Alma from #2416 to #234.
Amalie Compare
Between 2000 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Anayah went from #3912 to #320 and Amalie from #3912 to #1128.
Amelia Compare
Between 2000 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Anayah went from #3912 to #320 and Amelia from #35 to #2.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 2000 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #256 in England and Wales in 2016. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Anayah

Anayah at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Anayah across 2 official records

Anayah by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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Anayah across 2 official records

Anayah by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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