Analeia
Feminine
Analeia is a newcomer to the American record, and it surfaced where Spanish and English live side by side — California, Texas, Florida. Said aloud, it holds two familiar shapes: Ana, in continuous use across Europe and Latin America for centuries, and the soft -leia ending that Amelia and Leia also carry. Four syllables, every one of them easy to sound out.
How old is the name Analeia?
Analeia first appears in US birth records in 2011 — 14 years ago. Analeia is overwhelmingly a brand-new baby name right now — most Analeias are still in diapers. About 1,200 people named Analeia are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Analeia most popular?
Analeia peaked in 2025, reaching #514 nationally. Today it ranks #514, exactly where it peaked. See the whole 2025 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Analeia
Some names arrive without paperwork. Analeia appears in the American record only recently, and it appears first in the states where Spanish and English are spoken in the same kitchens — so the story we tell is one of a meeting. On one side, Ana: a name that traveled from Hebrew into Greek, into Latin, into every language of Europe, and has been given without interruption ever since. On the other, the long open ending that Amelia, Aleia and Leia all share, the kind of ending that likes to be sung rather than spoken. Analeia sits at that crossing, an old first syllable with a new tail, and the family who chose it first left no note explaining why.
Meaningnot established
Not established
No meaning has been established for this spelling. What is documented is the first element: Ana, the Spanish and Portuguese form of Anna, which comes through Greek from Hebrew Channah, 'grace' or 'favor'. Spanish-speaking countries also have the older compound name Analía, built from Ana and Lía. How Analeia relates to either is not recorded, so the honest answer is that its meaning is open.
Pronouncing Analeia
ah-nah-LAY-ah
You will also hear ah-nah-LEE-ah, closer to Spanish Analía. Neither is wrong; the family decides, and both survive an English-speaking mouth without trouble.
Nicknames for Analeia
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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
- 2011
- Most girls named
- 2025579 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #514reached in 2025
- Change vs 2024
- +100.3%579 in 2025, from 289
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.
Analeia in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Analía in Spanish — related form
- Analia in Spanish — spelling variant
- Ana in Spanish — related form
- Anna in English — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas, Florida.
Analeias among us
people named Analeia are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 2,776 born in 2025 was named Analeia
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Analeia
- #514
- Analeia on the 2025 chart
- #375
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Analeia went to 579 girls in 2025, but Annaleia, Analeya and Analeiah and the rest below are the same name said out loud. Together the 9 spellings went to 790, which makes it the 375th most-given girls’ name of the year — 139 places above the chart.
- Analeia579
- Annaleia79
- Analeya49
- Analeiah27
- Analeyah21
- Annaleya13
- Analeiya12
- Analeiyah5
and 1 rarer spelling.
About 1 girl in 2,035 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 2,776 for Analeia 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 Leeann test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Analeia's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Leeann climbed just as high around 1962, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Leeann's path sketches the road Analeia is walking now.
Analeia 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 Analeia is headed
Analeia is on a steep climb — if the curve holds, 2030 could see around 179% more babies given the name than today. 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.
Analeia beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Analeia in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Built on Ana, a name recognized on sight in nearly every European and Latin American language — the first half never needs explaining.
- Reads and sounds out the same in English and Spanish, which matters in a bilingual family.
- Several ready-made short forms — Ana, Leia, Ani, Lia — each of which already works as a name on its own.
- Fully phonetic: no silent letters, no unexpected stress once the reader knows which of the two pronunciations you use.
- The spelling competes with Analia, Analía, Annalia, Anaya-adjacent forms and Analeah, so she will be spelling it out at appointments and correcting autocorrect for life.
- Two live pronunciations — LAY and LEE in the third syllable — means the correction will come up as often as the spelling does.
- It is a very young name, so there are no grown Analeias to point to and no long track record to lean on; the family will be setting the precedent rather than following one.
- Leia sits audibly inside it, and some people will hear Star Wars first. That fades quickly with use, but expect the comment early on.
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Frequently asked
- How many Analeias are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,200 people named Analeia are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Analeia?
- Analeia is the most-used spelling in US records — 579 of the 790 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Annaleia, Analeya, Analeiah, Analeyah, Annaleya, Analeiya and Analeiyah.
- How popular is the name Analeia in 2025?
- Analeia ranks #514 among US girl names in 2025, with 579 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Analeia?
- About 1 in every 2,776 US girls born in 2025 was named Analeia — 579 in all.
- Will my child share the name Analeia with classmates?
- Analeia will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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