Anamaria
Feminine · “grace”
Anamaria is Ana and Maria written as one word, which is what Romanian and Spanish-speaking families do with the pair. It joins the two most-used women's names in Christian Europe, one of them settled in meaning and one of them still argued over after two thousand years.
How old is the name Anamaria?
Anamaria first appears in US birth records in 1930 — 95 years ago. The typical Anamaria alive today was born around 1998, making them about 27 years old. About 3,100 people named Anamaria are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Anamaria most popular?
Anamaria peaked in 1999, reaching #1804 nationally. Today it ranks #4878, 3,074 places below that high. See the whole 1999 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Channah to Anamaria
The story of Anamaria
Double Marian names were built across Catholic Europe and Latin America: Ana Maria in Spain and Mexico, Anamaria in Romania, Anna Maria in Italy, Anne-Marie in France. Writing it as one word rather than two is the step that makes it a single name rather than a pair, and Romanian does it as standard while Spanish-speaking families do it sometimes. The name came to American records from both directions, and it usually stands as the formal name behind an everyday Ana.
Meaningscholars disagree
grace, joined to a name never satisfactorily explained
Ana is settled: Hebrew Channah, grace or favor. Maria is not. Its Hebrew original Miryam has been read as bitter, as rebellious and, most respectably now, as coming from an Egyptian word meaning beloved. So half the compound is clear and half is open.
How the name formed
- Channah
- Ana
- Ana Maria
- Anamaria
Related forms: Anamaria · Ana María · Annamaria · Anne-Marie · Ana Maria
Pronouncing Anamaria
ah-nah-mah-REE-ah
Five syllables, stress on the fourth. English speakers usually reduce it to four and keep the weight in the same place.
Nicknames for Anamaria
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
- 1930
- Most girls named
- 200189 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1804reached in 1999
- Change vs 2023
- −44.9%27 in 2025, from 49
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.
Anamaria in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Anamaria in Romanian — same name
- Ana María in Spanish — same name
- Annamaria in Italian — spelling variant
- Anne-Marie in French — same name
- Ana Maria in Portuguese — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas, Florida.
Anamarias among us
people named Anamaria are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 59,528 born in 2025 was named Anamaria
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Anamaria
- #4878
- Anamaria on the 2025 chart
- #905
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Anamaria went to 27 girls in 2025, but Annamaria is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 55, which makes it the 905th most-given girls’ name of the year — 3,973 places above the chart.
- Annamaria28
- Anamaria27
About 1 girl in 29,223 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 59,528 for Anamaria 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 Louellen test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Anamaria's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Louellen climbed just as high around 1942, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Louellen's path sketches the road Anamaria is walking now.
Anamaria 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 Anamaria is headed
Anamaria should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
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.
Anamaria beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Anamaria in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- It carries two of the most widely recognized names in the world in one word.
- Ana and Mari are ready short forms, both of them complete names elsewhere.
- It works in Spanish, Portuguese and Romanian households without adjustment.
- It is long for American forms and gets split into two words or clipped without being asked.
- Ana Maria, Anamaria and Annamaria all appear, so family records may not match.
- The everyday form Ana is very widely used and will not be distinctive.
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Frequently asked
- How many Anamarias are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 3,100 people named Anamaria are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Anamaria?
- Anamaria is one of 2 recorded spellings. Annamaria is the more common one — 28 births in 2025 against 27 for Anamaria.
- How popular is the name Anamaria in 2025?
- Anamaria ranks #4878 among US girl names in 2025, with 27 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Anamaria?
- About 1 in every 59,528 US girls born in 2025 was named Anamaria — 27 in all.
- Will my child share the name Anamaria with classmates?
- Anamaria will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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