Ania
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Latin Annia, feminine of Annius; 'dedicated to Anna Perenna', goddess of the year
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/aɲa/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ania is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country, where it is the 66th most common given name.
- CRCosta Rica1 in 9.4K(measured from records)
- ESSpain1 in 31K
- FIFinland1 in 292as Anja
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Ania itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 303 (measured from records)
- 1 in 9.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈200,000 named Anja, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Costa Rica
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Anja in DE Germany, FI Finland, DK Denmark and 3 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Latin Annia, feminine of Annius; 'dedicated to Anna Perenna', goddess of the year.
Sources 1
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
Attested across 28 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ania counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | #66 | ≈200,000 est. | ≈1 in 395 | — | Anja | 262 |
| FI Finland | #414 | 19,106as Anja | 1 in 292 | 38K | Anja | 33 |
| DK Denmark | #124 | 10,370as Anja | 1 in 566 | 10K | Anja | 147 |
| SI Slovenia | #122 | 8,731as Anja | 1 in 241 | 8.8K | Anja | 45 |
| AT Austria | #218 | ≈6,300 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | 7.4K | Anja | 112 |
| HR Croatia | — | 3,470as Anja | 1 in 1.2K | 4.1K | — | 4 |
| ES Spain | #791 | 1,591 | 1 in 31K | 1.6K | Anja | 75 |
| CR Costa Rica | #354 | 541 | 1 in 9.4K | 541 | Ania | 12 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); SURS — resident population given names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Ania is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, weibl. Vom., Schreibvariante von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
In Welsh, a female given name from Russian Аня (Anja), equivalent to English Anya
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Cebuano, there exists (near both the speaker and listener)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In jpx-pro, elder sister, older sister
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swahili, to intend, plan
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Ania Marsonb. 1949PLPolish and British actress
- Ania Pieronib. 1957ITItalian actress and model
- Anya Hindmarchb. 1968GBnot in their usual nameBritish designer
- Ania Kinskib. 1977PLPolish-French pornographic actress
- Ania Sowinskib. 1979GBBritish actress
- Ania Buksteinb. 1982ILSoviet Russian-born Israeli actress and singer
- Ania Niedieckb. 1983DEGerman actress
- Anya Olsenb. 1994USnot in their usual nameAmerican pornographic actress
- Anya Taylor-Joyb. 1996USnot in their usual nameactress (born 1996)
- Anya Chalotrab. 1996GBnot in their usual nameBritish actress
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 82 sources across 45 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 1.6K | #2,070 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 1.4K | #1,127 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 541 | #796 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 117 | #2,592 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 113 | #1,453 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 53 | — |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024) | 2024 | 37 | #1,868 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 37 | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 30 | #11,149 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 29 | #3,075 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 7 | #6,377 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2025 | 6 | #3,488 |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Ania?
- A machine transcription gives /aɲa/ (IPA) for Polish.
- What does the name Ania mean, and where does it come from?
- Latin Annia, feminine of Annius; 'dedicated to Anna Perenna', goddess of the year. Recorded by Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios.
- Is Ania a male or female name?
- Ania is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Ania?
- In the etymology graph, Ana, Ann and Nancy are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Ania have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 203 thousand people named Anja in Germany, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Ania most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ania is densest in Costa Rica — about 1 in 9.4 thousand people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Ania?
- In Spain, the national register counted 1,591 people named Ania, about 1 in 31 thousand residents.
- How common is Ania compared with other names?
- In Germany, Ania is the 66th most common given name of 156,202 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/aniaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Ania” — the 66th most common given name in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.