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Ania

Feminine · “grace”

1968high 2006
#2542 in the U.S.given to only a few children a year
rare69 girls in 2025

Ania is the Polish everyday form of Anna — grace, in Hebrew — one of the oldest names still in daily use.

How old is the name Ania?

Ania first appears in US birth records in 1968 — 57 years ago. The typical Ania alive today was born around 2006, making them about 19 years old. About 3,300 people named Ania are estimated to be alive in the US today.

When was the name Ania most popular?

Ania peaked in 2004, reaching #1273 nationally. Today it ranks #2542, 1,269 places below that high. See the whole 2004 chart.

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Where it comes from

The story of Ania

Channah gives Hannah, Anna, Anne, Ana, Annushka and Ania across Europe — one of the most productive feminine names on the continent. Polish uses Ania as the everyday form of Anna. It appears in American records in current use.

Meaning

grace, favor

From the Hebrew channah, 'grace' or 'favor', through Anna and the Polish diminutive Ania. The Hebrew is ordinary and the reading undisputed. Ania is the standard Polish affectionate form.

How the name formed

  1. channah
  2. Anna
  3. Ania

Related forms: Ania · Anya · Аня

Pronouncing Ania

AH-nyah

Two syllables, stress on the first. Polish says it the same way; English speakers add a syllable.

Nicknames for Ania

Moderate

AnnaThe parent form, available as a fuller and more formal version
AniA shorter form, and a name in its own right in Armenian
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What the data says

The long climb, and where it stands now

GIRLS NAMED · 1968–20251819101816919682025

US babies named Ania per year from 1968 to 2025
AVERAGE RANK BY DECADE#1#10#100#1000#12731960s2020s

The same years in position rather than babies

First recorded
1968
Most girls named
2006181 — the highest on record
Peak rank
#1273reached in 2004
Change vs 2024
+3.0%69 in 2025, from 67
Ania sits in the rare tail. Its best year on record was 2006, with 181 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.

Ania in other languages

The same name elsewhere

  • Ania in Polish — same name
  • Anya in English — spelling variant
  • Аня in Russian — transliteration

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

Anias among us

3,300

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

About 1 girl in 23,294 born in 2025 was named Ania

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

Spellings of Ania

#2542
Ania on the 2025 chart
#137
counting every spelling

The SSA counts spellings, not names. Ania went to 69 girls in 2025, but Anya, Aniyah and Aniya and the rest below are the same name said out loud. Together the 14 spellings went to 2,226, which makes it the 137th most-given girls’ name of the year — 2,405 places above the chart.

and 6 rarer spellings.

About 1 girl in 722 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 23,294 for Ania 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 Genese test

Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Ania's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Genese climbed just as high around 1980, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Genese's path sketches the road Ania is walking now.

40%chance Ania will feel “very 2000s” by 2040
Ania, aligned on its peakGenese· peak 1980not yet written
#1#10#100#1000peak-40 yrs+20 yrsGenese · #17168Ania today
Ania today is about where Genese stood in 2001 — 21 years past a #1273-sized peak. Within 15 years, Genese had drifted out of the mainstream charts.
Ages quietlysteadyDates fast

Ania 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 Ania is headed

19682030

US babies named Ania per year, 1968 to 2025, with a projection to 2030

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

Steady-4% by 2030projected around #2,743 in 2030

High 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.

Ania beside its neighbors

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

Aniathis name69#2542Lynn69#2542Primrose69#2542Atarah69#2542Alaysha69#2542

US girls given each name in 2025.

The trade-off

Practical strengths
  • The grace meaning is transparent and undisputed.
  • Anna is available as a full formal version.
  • Two clean syllables with no pronunciation risk once heard.
What to consider
  • Anya is the commoner English spelling.
  • It is a diminutive and reads as informal in Polish.
  • English speakers often say AN-ee-uh with three syllables.

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Frequently asked

How many Anias are there in the world?
No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 3,300 people named Ania are estimated to be alive in the US today.
How do you spell Ania?
Ania is one of 8 recorded spellings. Anya is the more common one — 821 births in 2025 against 69 for Ania.
How popular is the name Ania in 2025?
Ania ranks #2542 among US girl names in 2025, with 69 babies given the name.
How rare is the name Ania?
About 1 in every 23,294 US girls born in 2025 was named Ania — 69 in all.
Will my child share the name Ania with classmates?
Ania will almost certainly be the only one in school.

Ranked beside Ania

Names sitting at a similar level of popularity right now.

Lynn#2542 · Primrose#2542 · Atarah#2542 · Alaysha#2542 · Taelyn#2542 · Lennie#2542 · Eliyana#2542 · Hinda#2542

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