# Anja (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/anja/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 2,797 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 0 / 2,797 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 507, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 81 | 2,302 |
| 2012 | 87 | 2,161 |
| 2013 | 62 | 2,773 |
| 2014 | 49 | 3,277 |
| 2015 | 73 | 2,475 |
| 2016 | 72 | 2,503 |
| 2017 | 64 | 2,692 |
| 2018 | 45 | 3,441 |
| 2019 | 57 | 2,892 |
| 2020 | 53 | 3,022 |
| 2021 | 46 | 3,394 |
| 2022 | 50 | 3,220 |
| 2023 | 51 | 3,187 |
| 2024 | 48 | 3,283 |
| 2025 | 35 | 4,075 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 34 | 1,015 |
| 2012 | 21 | 1,483 |
| 2013 | 17 | 1,707 |
| 2014 | 20 | 1,501 |
| 2015 | 13 | 2,070 |
| 2016 | 12 | 2,233 |
| 2017 | 19 | 1,628 |
| 2018 | 13 | 2,090 |
| 2019 | 5 | 4,001 |
| 2020 | 9 | 2,615 |
| 2021 | 10 | 2,499 |
| 2022 | 7 | 3,148 |
| 2023 | 10 | 2,504 |
| 2024 | 6 | 3,695 |
| 2025 | 4 | 4,867 |

## People named Anja

- Anja Andersen, Danish handball player
- Anja Nissen, Danish-Australian pop singer
- Anja Mittag, German footballer
- Anja Cetti Andersen, Danish astronomer and astrophysicist (born 1965)
- Anja Kling, German actress
- Anja Fichtel, German fencer
- Anja Kluge, East German rower
- Anja Althaus, German handball player
- Anja Nielsen, Danish handball player
- Anja Schneiderheinze-Stöckel, German bobsledder and speedskater
- Anja Haas, Austrian alpine skier
- Anja Salomonowitz, Austrian film director and screenwriter

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.