Aanaya
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- a-NY-a
- UK rank, 2025
- #5,990 for girls
- US rank, 2025
- #9,454 for girls
Aanaya is a girls' name. In 2025 it ranked 5,990th for girls in the UK (3 babies) and 9,454th for girls in the US (10 babies).
Where does Aanaya come from?
Spelling of Anaya; used in several cultures with different roots
Meaning borrowed from Anaya. More on Wiktionary.
Is Aanaya a girl's or a boy's name?
Aanaya is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 3 girls in the UK and 10 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Aanaya in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 5,990th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 3 about 1 in 93,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Falling down 57% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 3 girls in the UK were named Aanaya, making it the 5,990th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 2,766th. Its busiest year was 2016, with 9 girls.
Half of all the girls named Aanaya in the UK since 1996 were born between 2016 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 993 girls in the UK were given Aanaya or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #55, up from #5,990 for this spelling alone.
Among girls in 2025, it was 5,925th in England and Wales.
Aanaya in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 3 | #5,990 |
| 2024 | 6 | #3,758 |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 3 | #5,885 |
| 2021 | 6 | #3,697 |
| 2020 | 9 | #2,766 |
| 2019 | 8 | #3,018 |
| 2018 | 4 | #4,914 |
| 2017 | 4 | #4,967 |
| 2016 | 9 | #2,893 |
| 2015 | 3 | #5,983 |
| 2014 | 5 | #4,187 |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 1 | #7,717 |
How popular is Aanaya in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 9,454th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 10 about 1 in 160,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 10 girls in the US were named Aanaya, making it the 9,454th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 11,085th. Its busiest year was 2018, with 17 girls. It first appears in the records in 2014.
Half of all the girls named Aanaya in the US since 1880 were born between 2017 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.
Aanaya in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #9,454 |
| 2024 | 7 | #12,156 |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 10 | #9,674 |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,141 |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,085 |
| 2019 | 17 | #6,694 |
| 2018 | 17 | #6,788 |
| 2017 | 12 | #8,772 |
| 2016 | 14 | #7,985 |
| 2015 | 8 | #11,830 |
| 2014 | 7 | #13,063 |
Names like Aanaya
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Anvika, Raya, Inaya, Aadhya, Amaya, Arya, Haniya, Abeeha, Avaya, Ayat, Aaradhya, Ayra
Other spellings of Aanaya
Anaya, Anayah, Anaiah, Aniyah, Anaiya, Aniya, Anaiyah, Anaia, Annaya, Aaniya, Anniyah
Names related to Aanaya
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Aanaya: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/aanaya, updated 20 October 2026.