Annayah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- a-NY-a
- US rank, 2025
- #6,115 for girls
Annayah is a girls' name. In 2025 it ranked 6,115th for girls in the US (19 babies).
Where does Annayah come from?
Spelling of Anaya; used in several cultures with different roots
Meaning borrowed from Anaya. More on Wiktionary.
Is Annayah a girl's or a boy's name?
Annayah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 19 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Annayah in the UK?
No girls in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2013, with 10 girls.
Half of all the girls named Annayah in the UK since 1996 were born between 2012 and 2017, the years shaded on the chart below.
Annayah in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 4 | #4,915 |
| 2022 | 5 | #4,168 |
| 2021 | 3 | #5,824 |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 3 | #5,896 |
| 2017 | 6 | #3,774 |
| 2016 | 8 | #3,105 |
| 2015 | 10 | #2,629 |
| 2014 | 10 | #2,618 |
| 2013 | 10 | #2,599 |
| 2012 | 5 | #4,390 |
| 2011 | 3 | #6,007 |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 4 | #4,795 |
| 2008 | 6 | #3,589 |
| 2007 | 5 | #3,858 |
How popular is Annayah in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 6,115th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 19 about 1 in 85,000 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, 19 girls in the US were named Annayah, making it the 6,115th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 10,245th. It first appears in the records in 2008.
It has been given to more girls each year for the last 3 years. 2025 had the most girls named Annayah of any year since it first appeared, in 2008.
Half of all the girls named Annayah in the US since 1880 were born between 2013 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 2,733 girls in the US were given Annayah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #123, up from #6,115 for this spelling alone.
Annayah in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 19 | #6,115 |
| 2024 | 13 | #7,962 |
| 2023 | 6 | #13,456 |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 5 | #15,246 |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,245 |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 16 | #7,096 |
| 2017 | 8 | #11,611 |
| 2016 | 6 | #14,326 |
| 2015 | 5 | #16,413 |
| 2014 | 13 | #8,480 |
| 2013 | 7 | #13,145 |
| 2012 | 7 | #13,477 |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 12 | #9,227 |
| 2009 | 7 | #13,698 |
| 2008 | 5 | #17,498 |
Names like Annayah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Ayah, Aaliyah, Nusaybah, Abeeha, Safa, Aaminah, Aafiyah, Ruqayyah, Sumayyah, Ayra, Zainab, Hidayah
Other spellings of Annayah
Anaya, Aniyah, Anaiah, Anayah, Aniya, Anaia, Anaiyah, Anaiya, Annaya, Anniyah, Aaniyah
Names related to Annayah
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, “Annayah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/annayah, updated 20 October 2026.