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Anais

#892 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Anais has been given to 9,331 babies in the U.S. since 1972. In 2025 it ranked #892 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2021, with 337 recorded.

Babies named Anais, 2025

1 in 11,100

Anais over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
010020030040018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Anais: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Anais means

Anais is a given name.

The naming story behind Anais

Wikidata records Anais as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q19792225, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 9,213 girls were recorded with the name Anais between 1972 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 337 in 2021; its best national rank was #825 in 2021.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #907 in 2020 to #892 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,038 in 2015 to #892 in 2025.

In the United States, 118 boys were recorded with the name Anais between 1985 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 16 in 2021; its best national rank was #5,573 in 2021.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #10,672 in 2020 to #7,219 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Anais?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 11,100
299 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 5,380
0.02% of girls
Rank, 2025
#892
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
7,686 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Anais sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 5004%

Put another way: gather 7,686 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Anais. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Anaiss were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Anais was born before 2008 — so the typical Anais is around 17 today.

Median birth year
2008
About 17 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
25.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
68.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
9,213
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 25.3% of all recorded uses (2,331).

Is Anais rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−40
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+15
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+146
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.17×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
88.7%
Peak was 2021 (337)
Years since peak
4
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
11.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#825
2021

Spellings of Anais

Anais is not the most common spelling — Annie is, with 45.3% against Anais's 1.2%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Anais is used

Across 2016–2025, Anais was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 2,778 girls, against 1 in 4,795 across all states with data. It was least common in Missouri (1 in 50,000).

236 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in 2,778
  2. 2Arizona1 in 2,857
  3. 3Nevada1 in 2,941
  4. 4New York1 in 3,333
  5. 5Massachusetts1 in 3,448
  6. 6California1 in 3,704
  7. 7Colorado1 in 4,167
  8. 8Illinois1 in 4,167

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Geographically, Anais is somewhat regional — more concentrated than 67% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Anais around the world

Where Anais ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #658
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1983–2023
    #749
    in 2023
  • Northern Ireland
    2006–2021
    #446
    in 2021
  • Ireland
    2000–2025
    #608
    in 2025
  • France
    1900–2025
    #157
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #708
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1975–2013
    #818
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Anais

People whose public names include Anais, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Anais in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Anais. Linked forms have their own page here.

Anisa

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Anais by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#892
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 15
Best rank ever
#825
2021
Peak year
2021
337 that year
First recorded
1972
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
9,213
Count in 2025
299

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#7,219
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 3,453
Best rank ever
#5,573
2021
Peak year
2021
16 that year
First recorded
1985
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
118
Count in 2025
11

Names similar to Anais

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Anais

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Anais, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Anais

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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