Anan
Meaning
traditional Akan birth-order name given to the fourth-born child
Popularity, 1890–2024
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Anan has stayed rare in US records the whole time: no peak decade to name.
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Popularity in Brazil
200 people · the #25,399 first name in Brazil · about 1 in 1,000,000 · median age 19
Among people named Anan living in Brazil at the 2022 census, more were born in the 2000s than in any other decade.
Source: IBGE, Censo Demográfico 2022
The Anan deep dive
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