Given name
Aani
Aani is a feminine given name from Danish. It is used in Greenlandic.
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2023. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Aani through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 6
- 0 boys · 6 girls
- Most popular year
- 2023
- 6 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 6 in 2023. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Aani’s family of names
In Greenlandic usage, Aani was borrowed from the Danish form Ane. In Greenlandic usage, Aani has a related form in Âne.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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