Anniston
Girl · AN-i-stun · English
Anniston is a girls' name of English origin, meaning “town of Annie”. In 2025 it ranked 1,525th for girls in the US (139 babies).
What does Anniston mean?
English: US place name, from Anniston in Alabama
“town of Annie”
Anniston, Alabama, was named 'Annie's Town' after Annie Tyler, a member of one of its founding families.
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- AN-i-stun
Is Anniston a girl's or a boy's name?
Anniston is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 139 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Anniston in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #1,525among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 139about 1 in 12,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steadydown 18% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 139 girls in the US were named Anniston, making it the 1,525th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 1,389th. Its busiest year was 2014, with 302 girls. It first appears in the records in 1996.
2025 had fewer girls named Anniston than any year since 2009.
Half of all the girls named Anniston in the US since 1880 were born between 2012 and 2020, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 281 girls in the US were given Anniston or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #865, up from #1,525 for this spelling alone.
Anniston in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 139 | #1,525 |
| 2024 | 163 | #1,383 |
| 2023 | 168 | #1,344 |
| 2022 | 146 | #1,490 |
| 2021 | 188 | #1,249 |
| 2020 | 157 | #1,389 |
| 2019 | 194 | #1,203 |
| 2018 | 224 | #1,101 |
| 2017 | 234 | #1,082 |
| 2016 | 273 | #979 |
| 2015 | 256 | #1,038 |
| 2014 | 302 | #898 |
| 2013 | 206 | #1,165 |
| 2012 | 204 | #1,201 |
| 2011 | 165 | #1,382 |
| 2010 | 149 | #1,500 |
| 2009 | 89 | #2,204 |
| 2008 | 59 | #2,956 |
| 2007 | 53 | #3,214 |
| 2006 | 57 | #2,977 |
| 2005 | 40 | #3,642 |
| 2004 | 43 | #3,440 |
| 2003 | 32 | #4,105 |
| 2002 | 41 | #3,330 |
| 2001 | 18 | #6,062 |
| 2000 | 11 | #8,527 |
| 1999 | 21 | #5,033 |
| 1998 | 12 | #7,527 |
| 1997 | 9 | #9,012 |
| 1996 | 7 | #10,562 |
Nicknames for Anniston
- Annie 562 girls in the UK in 2025
Names like Anniston
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
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