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The first name 
Anahita

Anahita is a first name for girls.

Anahita – one in 100,000!

There’s a good chance that a girl named Anahita in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Anahita in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 girls is named Anahita by her parents. In the ranking of most common girls names in recent years, Anahita ranks at #5,817. That means there are 5,816 more common girls names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Anahita.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Anahita

Anahita -
ahead of the curve

In fact, the name Anahita did not fit the trend of the last century. Young parents in the 2000s began to change that a bit. After several years of not being given at all (or less than 5 times, because that's the number required for a name to appear in the statistics), Anahita seemed to be more popular than ever in 2020. Although the name never ranked higher than #4,568, 24 parents chose it that year, making it a potential new rising star on the horizon of beautiful and rare names. If your name is Anahita, you are well on your way to becoming en vogue.

In years where the graph has no value, the name Anahita was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.

Anahita in 2022 – originality welcome!

In 2022, expectant parents chose the yet rare name Anahita a few times. Among all newborn girls it ranked #5,448 - with a total of 19 baby girls. This means, as you can see above, that the name is still more common than it was most time of the last century, when it supposedly didn't appear at all for many years - giving girls with this first name a sheen of something particularly contemporary and special.

Anahita -
at home in California and New York

If you ever wanted to meet a girl or a woman named Anahita, you have limited options – because girls with this beautiful name are currently living in California and New York. However, we must admit that a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if tehre are at least five people with that name living there – so it’s quite possible that there are still a few women and girls called Anahita living in one state or another (if your name is Anahita and you live outside of California and New York, we’d really appreciate it if you’d let us know, so we can refine our statistics even further). Which means – if you put this number in relation to the population of the USA – only one in 298,258 girls and women would turn around if you called out the name Anahita. So, if your name is Anahita it is very likely that you won’t need a nickname in your peer group, because having the name Anahita already makes you special.

Anahita has 7 letters 
and begins with an A

Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter A is the most popular first letter for girls’ names. 11.8% of all common girls’ names in the US start with this letter. The second most common first letter in girls' names is S.

With seven letters, the name Anahita has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.

That means that if 11.8% of all girls' names start with an A, this initial letter occurs over three times as often as all other letters on average. And, by the way, of all the girls' names that begin with the letter A, the name Ashley is the most common.

Other names with 
A, n, a, h, i, t and a

If you take all the letters in the name Anahita – A, n, a, h, i, t and a – and put them together again, you can form other names, such as Aithana or Ahitana.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Anahita

If your name is Anahita and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...

This is how you spell the name Anahita

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Anahita, you can simply say:

Apple

Nut

Apple

Hat

Igloo

Tiger

Apple

This is how the name Anahita is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Anahita in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Anahita

Anahita

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Anahita

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Anahita is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

A
N
A
H
I
T
A

Have you ever waved the name Anahita

In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.

A
N
A
H
I
T
A

Beeping like crazy...

In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Anahita sounds like this: