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Anali

Feminine · “grace”

1977high 2009
#2645 in the U.S.given to only a few children a year
rare65 girls in 2025

Anali joins Ana to a -li ending, and Ana is the Hebrew for grace — one of the oldest names still in daily use.

How old is the name Anali?

Anali first appears in US birth records in 1977 — 48 years ago. The typical Anali alive today was born around 2010, making them about 15 years old. About 2,300 people named Anali are estimated to be alive in the US today.

When was the name Anali most popular?

Anali peaked in 2010, reaching #1611 nationally. Today it ranks #2645, 1,034 places below that high. See the whole 2010 chart.

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Where it comes from

Our story of Anali

Our story of Anali is a story of an ancient front and a Mexican ending. Channah gives Hannah, Anna, Ana and a dozen more across Europe. Latin American families built Anali, Anayeli, Analia and Nayeli on the same pattern through the twentieth century, joining Ana to endings of their own making. The front has three thousand years; the compound has a few decades, and both are worth saying.

Meaningscholars disagree

grace

The Ana front is from the Hebrew channah, 'grace' or 'favor', which is settled. The -li ending is a modern Latin American addition. The compound is recent and only the front has a documented origin.

How the name formed

  1. channah
  2. Ana
  3. Anali

Related forms: Anali · Analie

Pronouncing Anali

ah-nah-LEE

Three syllables, stress on the third. Spanish gives every vowel a full value.

Nicknames for Anali

Moderate

AnaThe front of the name, and one of the most-used names in Europe
NaliThe back of the name, used inside families rather than generally
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What the data says

The long climb, and where it stands now

GIRLS NAMED · 1977–20251397001396519772025

US babies named Anali per year from 1977 to 2025
AVERAGE RANK BY DECADE#1#10#100#1000#16111970s2020s

The same years in position rather than babies

First recorded
1977
Most girls named
2009139 — the highest on record
Peak rank
#1611reached in 2010
Change vs 2024
−25.3%65 in 2025, from 87
Anali sits in the rare tail. Its best year on record was 2009, with 139 girls. Today it is given to few enough children that it does not enter the ranked charts at all.

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.

Anali in other languages

The same name elsewhere

  • Anali in Spanish — same name
  • Analie in English — spelling variant

Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California, Florida.

Analis among us

2,300

people named Anali are estimated to be alive in the US today

About 1 girl in 24,727 born in 2025 was named Anali

Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method

Spellings of Anali

#2645
Anali on the 2025 chart
#817
counting every spelling

The SSA counts spellings, not names. Anali went to 65 girls in 2025, but Analy, Annali and Annaly are the same name said out loud. Together the 4 spellings went to 143, which makes it the 817th most-given girls’ name of the year — 1,828 places above the chart.

About 1 girl in 11,240 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 24,727 for Anali 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

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Is it right for you

The Thania test

Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Anali's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Thania climbed just as high around 1993, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Thania's path sketches the road Anali is walking now.

40%chance Anali will feel “very 2020s” by 2040
Anali, aligned on its peakThania· peak 1993not yet written
#1#10#100#1000peak-40 yrs+30 yrsThania · #10621Anali today
Anali today is about where Thania stood in 2008 — 15 years past a #1611-sized peak. By 2023, Thania had settled around #10621.
Ages quietlysteadyDates fast

Anali sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.

A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored

Where Anali is headed

19772030

US babies named Anali per year, 1977 to 2025, with a projection to 2030

Anali should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.

Steady+14% by 2030projected around #2,520 in 2030

Medium 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.

Anali beside its neighbors

The names ranked closest to Anali in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.

Analithis name65#2645Caliana65#2645Aaira65#2645Wylie65#2645Henrietta65#2645

US girls given each name in 2025.

The trade-off

Practical strengths
  • Ana is available as a short form with an enormous record.
  • The grace meaning is genuine for the front element.
  • The end stress gives it a strong rhythm against a front-stressed surname.
What to consider
  • Only the front has a documented origin.
  • Several spellings of the sound are in circulation.
  • It reads as specifically Latin American.

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Frequently asked

How many Analis are there in the world?
No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 2,300 people named Anali are estimated to be alive in the US today.
How do you spell Anali?
Anali is the most-used spelling in US records — 65 of the 143 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Analy, Annali and Annaly.
How popular is the name Anali in 2025?
Anali ranks #2645 among US girl names in 2025, with 65 babies given the name.
How rare is the name Anali?
About 1 in every 24,727 US girls born in 2025 was named Anali — 65 in all.
Will my child share the name Anali with classmates?
Anali will almost certainly be the only one in school.

Ranked beside Anali

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Caliana#2645 · Aaira#2645 · Wylie#2645 · Henrietta#2645 · Mahogany#2645 · Amaiah#2645 · Charlize#2645 · Esra#2645

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