Anel
Anel is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 8 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 80.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 199176 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1971
- 2,133people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,869 girls have been named Anel in the United States since 1971, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1991, with 76 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1994, and the 1990s alone account for 28%.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 264 boys have also been given it, 12% of the total.
By decade
In 1991, its biggest year
Anel was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1991 were Ashley, Jessica, Brittany, Amanda and Samantha. See all of 1991.
Names that rose and fell with Anel
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Taviapeak 1993
- Michapeak 1990
- Chenoapeak 1976
- Brookpeak 1980
- Larissapeak 1994
- Andreanapeak 1990
- Zakiapeak 1975
- Akilahpeak 1993
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.