Given name & surname
Anania
Anania is a surname from Italian. It is used in English and Italian.
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2012. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Anania through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 54
- 54 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2017
- 9 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −59%
- Cooling
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 6 in 2024. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 9 in 2017. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 187 as a first name in 2020; 637 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Anania’s family of names
In Italian usage, Anania has a conventional equivalent in the Polish form Ananiasz. In Armenian usage, Anania is a Roman-alphabet rendering of Անանիա. In Armenian usage, Anania is a transliteration of Անանիա.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Anania has relatives in 3 languages. Lines run from its Italian roots to each of them.
3 related names in 3 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Spellings & scripts 3
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 7
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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