Anays

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Anays: Recorded every year since 2015, it reached #871 in 2019, and it stood at #2,574 in 2024.

2registrars recorded it
11times a registrar ranked it
10years from first to last
#871highest recorded position
1grouping it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 2015–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2015	#2496
2016	#2008
2017	#1733
2018	#1272
2019	#1189
2020	#1313
2021	#1007
2022	#1245
2023	#1135
2024	#2574

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

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in every year from 2015 to 2024.

In 2019: #871 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #1189 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 2015–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded2015
First recorded at #2496 among girls in England and Wales in 2015 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #2574 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Anays appears in

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

Names recorded by exactly 2 registrars

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 2015 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #871 in Republic of Ireland in 2019.

Anays'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	#2574	10	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#1135	29	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#1245	26	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#1007	34	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#1313	24	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#1189	28	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#1272	26	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#1733	17	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#2008	14	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#2496	10	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	female	#871	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 2015 and 2024, ranked in 10 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #871, first reached in 2019.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 34 births, registered in England and Wales in 2021.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2019, and 4 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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Anders · #3, 81y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 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.

Ecaterina · #871, 15y
Melany · #871, 14y
Saylor · #871, 10y
Abbie-Mae · #873, 12y

Also first recorded in the 2010s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 2010 and 2019.

Saylor · #871, 10y
Mila-Rose · #870, 14y
Aurora-Rose · #869, 12y
Baani · #869, 13y

Anays was ranked #871 in Republic of Ireland · Girls in 2019. 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.

Anays 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 Anays without appearing here.

Anays moved ahead of

Tracy Compare
In 2015 they stood at #2496 and #2496 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #2008 and #4763.
Levi Compare
In 2015 they stood at #2496 and #2070 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #2008 and #4096.
Yvonne Compare
In 2015 they stood at #2496 and #2496 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #2008 and #4096.
Kim Compare
In 2015 they stood at #2496 and #1961 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #2008 and #3609.

Moved ahead of Anays

Meabh Compare
In 2023 they stood at #1135 and #1288 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #2574 and #952.
Rory Compare
In 2023 they stood at #1135 and #1469 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #2574 and #1603.
Noah Compare
In 2023 they stood at #1135 and #3218 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #2574 and #1743.
Arlo Compare
In 2023 they stood at #1135 and #1469 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #2574 and #1894.

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 2 regions, from 2015 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #871 in Republic of Ireland in 2019. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

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Also first recorded in the 2010s

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