How common is the name Anna?

512,954 people in the United States have the first name Anna, about 1 in 589. It ranks #82 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

ANNA

#82

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
512,954
About
1 in 589
This common or more
27.4%
Who bears it

Of the 512,954 people named Anna, 74.8% reported their origin as White, 13.4% as Hispanic or Latino and 5% as Asian or Pacific Islander. Virtually all are female (99.9%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Anna peaked in 1918, when 15,697 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
18802025
Peak year
1918
Births that year
15,697
In 2025*
2,521 ▼84%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 917,615 babies have been given the name since 1880. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Anna by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1890s, when it ranked #4. The largest share of babies named Anna, 29.7%, were born between 1901 and 1927, the Greatest Generation's birth years.

1880s#738,320
1890s#455,461
1900s#755,099
1910s#15119,311
1920s#28124,291
1930s#6266,896
1940s#14241,444
1950s#19341,834
1960s#19141,084
1970s#16037,976
1980s#11357,590
1990s#8178,721
2000s#7390,470
2010s#11751,381
2020s#21417,737
Before 190110.9%
Greatest Generation 1901–2729.7%
Silent Generation 1928–4512.3%
Baby boom 1946–648.8%
Generation X 1965–806.7%
Millennials 1981–9611.5%
Generation Z 1997–1214.6%
2013 and later5.6%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Anna is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Anna has been most common in Pennsylvania (2.1×), Kentucky (1.9×), and West Virginia (1.6×), and least common in Florida (0.55×).

766,568 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Either side of Anna

#80 Brenda · 521,400#81 Samantha · 517,508#83 Larry · 512,456#84 Gregory · 503,949

Spelled almost the same

8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Anna, most common first.

#161 Ana · 321,854#178 Ann · 293,049#252 Anne · 221,693#1,747 Anya · 17,277#4,635 Ania · 3,952#4,821 Anny · 3,739#8,029 Annah · 1,834#8,362 Anni · 1,739

Also a last name

As a last name, Anna ranks #20,463 of 156,621, with 1,311 people. See Anna as a last name

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