Anayat
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- a-NAA-yat
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #1,085 for girls
- US rank, 2025
- #6,324 for girls
Anayat is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “care, kindness, favour”. In 2025 it ranked 1,085th for girls in the UK (33 babies) and 6,324th for girls in the US (18 babies).
What does Anayat mean?
Arabic: Punjabi and Urdu form of Inayat
“care, kindness, favour”
Is Anayat a girl's or a boy's name?
Anayat is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 33 girls in the UK and 18 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Anayat in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 1,085th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 33 about 1 in 8,400 girls
- Five-year trend
- Newly popular new in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 33 girls in the UK were named Anayat, making it the 1,085th most popular name for girls. Its busiest year was 2024, with 42 girls.
Half of all the girls named Anayat in the UK since 1996 were born between 2023 and 2025, the years shaded on the chart below.
Among girls in 2025, it was 1,028th in England and Wales.
Anayat in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 33 | #1,085 |
| 2024 | 42 | #907 |
| 2023 | 28 | #1,247 |
| 2022 | 12 | #2,277 |
| 2021 | 11 | #2,478 |
How popular is Anayat in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 6,324th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 18 about 1 in 89,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising fast up 200% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 18 girls in the US were named Anayat, making it the 6,324th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 13,448th. Its busiest year was 2024, with 23 girls. It first appears in the records in 2017.
Half of all the girls named Anayat in the US since 1880 were born between 2021 and 2024, the years shaded on the chart below.
Anayat in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 18 | #6,324 |
| 2024 | 23 | #5,440 |
| 2023 | 10 | #9,611 |
| 2022 | 13 | #8,027 |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,141 |
| 2020 | 6 | #13,448 |
| 2019 | 5 | #15,532 |
| 2018 | 6 | #13,788 |
| 2017 | 5 | #15,898 |
Names like Anayat
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Ayat, Anvika, Inayat, Aayat, Arshiya, Amanat, Aadhya, Aaradhya, Aarvi, Aavya, Rehmat, Gursifat
Names related to Anayat
More Arabic names
Muhammad, Layla, Mohammed, Lyla, Mohammad, Zara, Aaliyah, Amir, Amira, Fatima, Ali, Yahya, Zayn, Aisha, Omar, Zahra
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, “Anayat: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/anayat, updated 20 October 2026.