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Ana

111,960 recorded births · active 1880–2025

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Living-age distribution

The median living Ana is 30. If you meet a Ana, there's about a 70% chance they're between 12 and 52 years old.

Popularity arc

Peak Ana: 1991. Down 41% from peak.

Projected: the dashed 10-year forecast (Holt damped-trend exponential smoothing, fit to recent years), with a shaded 95% interval.

Gender balance

Ana is almost always given to female babies — 99.5% female.

99.5%female
Male0.5%
Female99.5%

Rarity

Ana ranks #640 out of 105,966 names ever recorded by the SSA.

99.4%more common
Commonness rank#640of 105,966

Name neighbors

People named Ana have popularity-curve siblings named:

JavierMiguelJorgeSergioMarco

Geographic fingerprint

Anas are 2.2x more common in the West than the national average.

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Predictive modeling

Three statistical models, all fit to Ana's own SSA history plus the historical behavior of every other name in the dataset.

Peak popularity prediction

Ana's modeled peak was #245 in 1991 — its trend isn't projected to beat that.

Top 1000 Reached in 1948
Top 500 Reached in 1971
Top 100
0% chance
Top 50
0% chance
Top 10
0% chance

Projects the trend forward, then converts share into rank using this year's popularity distribution.

This forecasts Ana's share of births by fitting a damped-trend model to its last 145 years of data and projecting 10 years forward with a widening uncertainty band. Each projected share is then translated into a rank by comparing it against 2025's actual name-popularity distribution — so the model implicitly assumes the overall shape of that distribution doesn't shift much over the forecast window. Its trend is projected to stay below its historic best over the next 10 years, so the model treats 1991 as its peak. Milestone probabilities come from how much of each year's uncertainty band clears that milestone's rank, combined across years as if they were independent — which slightly overstates the odds for names sitting right at a threshold, since a good year is usually followed by another good year rather than an independent coin flip.

Name life-cycle stage

A rule-based classifier over recent growth, momentum, and peak proximity.

Growing

Ana's popularity has been gently rising in recent years without yet approaching its historic peak.

34
years since peak
→ stable
overall trend
~33 years
estimated time left in top 1000

Popularity survival model

Once a name reaches a rank tier, how long does it typically stay there before falling out?

Built from a Kaplan-Meier survival curve: every historical run any name has ever had above this tier, with runs still ongoing today counted as still in progress rather than as an exit.

Ana isn't currently in the Top 100 tier. Estimated chance of entering it in the forecast window: 0%.

If Ana enters Top 100, chance it's still there after:

71%
5 years
63%
10 years
48%
20 years

Names that do enter Top 100 have historically stayed a median of ~19 years. Based on 668 historical Top 100 runs across every name in the dataset.