Anabia
Feminine · “gate of heaven”
Anabia is a recent Urdu name, given in modern sources as a gate of heaven — though the reading is not documented in classical Arabic.
How old is the name Anabia?
Anabia first appears in US birth records in 2009 — 16 years ago. The typical Anabia is a kid of about 6 — this name's wave is very recent. About 800 people named Anabia are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Anabia most popular?
Anabia peaked in 2025, reaching #1942 nationally. Today it ranks #1942, exactly where it peaked. See the whole 2025 chart.
Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Anabia
Our story of Anabia is a story of a meaning that arrived with the name. It rose sharply in Pakistani naming from around 2010 and became one of the most-used girls' names there within a decade. The gate-of-heaven reading is given by every modern naming site and by none of the classical dictionaries. That does not make it a bad name; it makes it a new one, and saying so is more useful than repeating a gloss nobody can source.
Meaningscholars disagree
gate of heaven
Modern Urdu naming sources give 'gate of heaven' or 'one who leads to good'. The reading is not documented in classical Arabic or Persian dictionaries, and the form appears to be recent. Honest sources note that the meaning is modern and unverified.
Pronouncing Anabia
ah-NAH-bee-ah
Four syllables, stress on the second. Urdu gives every vowel a full value.
Nicknames for Anabia
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 2009
- Most girls named
- 202599 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1942reached in 2025
- Change vs 2024
- +8.8%99 in 2025, from 91
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Anabia in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- انابیہ in Urdu — transliteration
- Anabiya in English — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: New York, Texas, California.
Anabias among us
people named Anabia are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 16,235 born in 2025 was named Anabia
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Anabia
- #1942
- Anabia on the 2025 chart
- #847
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Anabia went to 99 girls in 2025, but Anabiya is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 113, which makes it the 847th most-given girls’ name of the year — 1,095 places above the chart.
- Anabia99
- Anabiya14
About 1 girl in 14,224 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 16,235 for Anabia itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Anaiyah test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Anabia's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Anaiyah climbed just as high around 2010, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Anaiyah's path sketches the road Anabia is walking now.
Anabia is climbing fast right now. Steep climbs tend to come with steep descents — the quicker a name arrives, the more firmly it belongs to its moment.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Anabia is headed
Anabia looks set to keep climbing gently, with roughly 16% more babies a year by 2030 if the current curve holds. Its history is short or jumpy, though, so read this as a sketch rather than a promise.
Low confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Anabia beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Anabia in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Ana and Bia are two short forms, both with real use elsewhere.
- Four syllables of open vowels, which carries unusually well.
- It is current and rising rather than revived.
- The meaning is modern and not documented in classical sources.
- Four syllables and an unfamiliar spelling will need dictating.
- It reads as specifically South Asian and Muslim.
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Frequently asked
- How many Anabias are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 800 people named Anabia are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Anabia?
- Anabia is the most-used spelling in US records — 99 of the 113 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Anabiya.
- How popular is the name Anabia in 2025?
- Anabia ranks #1942 among US girl names in 2025, with 99 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Anabia?
- About 1 in every 16,235 US girls born in 2025 was named Anabia — 99 in all.
- Will my child share the name Anabia with classmates?
- Anabia will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Anabia
Names sitting at a similar level of popularity right now.
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