Anapaula
Feminine · “Grace”
Anapaula is Ana Paula with the space closed, and the pairing is one of the standard Spanish and Portuguese compounds — as fixed a unit as Juan Carlos or José Luis. Both halves are ancient and both are used alone everywhere in the world.
How old is the name Anapaula?
Anapaula first appears in US birth records in 1996 — 29 years ago. The typical Anapaula is a kid of about 10 — this name's wave is very recent. About 600 people named Anapaula are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Anapaula most popular?
Anapaula peaked in 2022, reaching #3963 nationally. Today it ranks #5410, 1,447 places below that high. See the whole 2022 chart.
Where it comes from
From Ḥannāh to Anapaula
The story of Anapaula
Compound given names are standard in Spanish and Portuguese and function as single units: a girl called Ana Paula is addressed by both halves and never by one. The American record has no room for that, so the space closes in the first-name field and Anapaula, Anamaria, Anasofia and Anakaren all appear as single words. Ana Paula in particular is very common in Brazil and Mexico, and its American record follows Mexican and Brazilian migration. The peak in 2022 is extremely recent — this is one of the newest names in the whole ranked list, and it is still rising rather than settled.
Meaning
Grace, joined to small
Ana is the Spanish and Portuguese form of Hebrew Ḥannāh, grace or favor — settled. Paula is the feminine of the Roman family name Paulus, from Latin paulus, small or humble — also settled, and the name the apostle took after his conversion. The compound has no meaning beyond the two names joined.
How the name formed
- Ḥannāh
- Ana Paula
- Anapaula
Related forms: Ana Paula · Ana Paula · Anna Paola
Pronouncing Anapaula
ah-nah-POW-lah
Four syllables, said exactly as the two names in sequence, with the main stress on the third. The au is a diphthong rhyming with how.
Nicknames for Anapaula
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
- 1996
- Most girls named
- 202237 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #3963reached in 2022
- Change vs 2024
- −14.8%23 in 2025, from 27
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.
Anapaula in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Ana Paula in Spanish — same name
- Ana Paula in Portuguese — same name
- Anna Paola in Italian — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California.
Anapaulas among us
people named Anapaula are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 69,881 born in 2025 was named Anapaula
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Anapaula
- #5410
- Anapaula on the 2025 chart
- #931
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Anapaula went to 23 girls in 2025, but Annapaula is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 29, which makes it the 931st most-given girls’ name of the year — 4,479 places above the chart.
- Anapaula23
- Annapaula6
About 1 girl in 55,423 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 69,881 for Anapaula 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 Mitchelle test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Anapaula's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Mitchelle climbed just as high around 1976, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Mitchelle's path sketches the road Anapaula is walking now.
Anapaula 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
Anapaula beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Anapaula in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Both halves are complete, established names usable alone.
- The meanings of both parts are settled.
- It is instantly recognized across the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking world.
- Written solid it looks like an error to anyone who knows the convention.
- Nine letters in one field will be truncated by databases and airline systems.
- Forms and teachers will split it, join it and misspell it in every combination.
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Frequently asked
- How many Anapaulas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 600 people named Anapaula are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Anapaula?
- Anapaula is the most-used spelling in US records — 23 of the 29 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Annapaula.
- How popular is the name Anapaula in 2025?
- Anapaula ranks #5410 among US girl names in 2025, with 23 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Anapaula?
- About 1 in every 69,881 US girls born in 2025 was named Anapaula — 23 in all.
- Will my child share the name Anapaula with classmates?
- Anapaula will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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