Ana
Ana places #245 across the country in 2025, as settled as a name gets. Its record runs from 1880 through a 1991 peak, 111,359 children in all.
What Ana carries
Ana · Hebrew
“grace”
Source: Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), see our sources.
Ana’s free Name Kit
Five printables for Ana, drawn in your browser at print size the moment you ask: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet, and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Letter size, 300 dpi, in the site’s own hand.
- Name print Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
- Nursery sign The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
- Tracing sheet The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
- Shortlist sheet A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
- Sibling names sheet Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Name print
Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
Nursery sign
The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
Tracing sheet
The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
Shortlist sheet
A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
Sibling names sheet
Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Print on plain letter paper or heavier card; the sign and the print look best on matte stock.
Ana since 1880
Ana peaked in 1991 at #119; #245 in 2025.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Ana is most common
By share of a state's recorded girls' names, Ana runs strongest in Arizona at 0.27% in 2025, then Texas and Connecticut.
Share of the state's recorded names for that sex, from the Social Security Administration's state file; a name is listed in a state only when five or more babies received it there that year.
Names that sit near Ana
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Adam
#101 in 2025 · Hebrew
Aaron
#80 in 2025 · Hebrew
Rachel
#250 in 2025 · Hebrew
Rafael
#218 in 2025 · Hebrew
Sara
#198 in 2025 · Hebrew
Molly
#196 in 2025 · Hebrew
Jesse
#184 in 2025 · Hebrew
Ivan
#163 in 2025 · Hebrew
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About Ana
How popular is the name Ana?
Ana places #245 across the country in 2025, as settled as a name gets. The chart above draws the whole run since 1880, from the Social Security Administration's public data.
What does Ana mean?
The reference we cite records “grace”, of Hebrew origin (Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884)).
Which names sit near Ana?
On origin, era, syllables and first letter, Adam sits closest, with Aaron and Rachel just behind. Give the matcher the names already in the house and it scores the whole top thousand against them.
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