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Anas

#1,292 in 2025Boys' name

Friendliness

Anas has been given to 2,906 babies in the U.S. since 1978. In 2025 it ranked #1,292 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2016, with 151 recorded.

Babies named Anas, 2025

1 in 22,000

Anas over time, 1880–2025

Boys
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Anas: meaning, origin, and history

Friendliness

Arabic

What Anas means

Anas means “friendliness”.

Origin, language, and formation

Anas is used in Malay. Its origins include Arabic.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Malay, Anas is pronounced [a.nas].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,906 boys were recorded with the name Anas between 1978 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 151 in 2016; its best national rank was #1,234 in 2016.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,361 in 2020 to #1,292 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,601 in 2015 to #1,292 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Anas?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 22,000
151 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 11,300
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,292
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
15,219 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Anas sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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 5002%

Put another way: gather 15,219 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Anas. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Anass were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Anas was born before 2014 — so the typical Anas is around 11 today.

Median birth year
2014
About 11 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
36.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
84.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,906
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 36.7% of all recorded uses (1,066).

Is Anas 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
+92
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+69
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+309
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.51×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2016 (151)
Years since peak
9
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,234
2016

Spellings of Anas

Anas is not the most common spelling — Adam is, with 41.6% against Anas's 0.21%.

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 Anas is used

Across 2016–2025, Anas was most concentrated in Minnesota — about 1 in 2,632 boys, against 1 in 12,848 across all states with data. It was least common in Tennessee (1 in 100,000).

138 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Minnesota1 in 2,632
  2. 2New York1 in 3,571
  3. 3Michigan1 in 5,263
  4. 4New Jersey1 in 6,667
  5. 5Ohio1 in 7,692
  6. 6Pennsylvania1 in 8,333
  7. 7Illinois1 in 16,667
  8. 8Nebraska1 in 16,667

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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.

Anas around the world

Where Anas 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
    #312
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1983–2025
    #762
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    1991–2025
    #509
    in 2025
  • France
    1974–2025
    #90
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #334
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #491
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2000–2012
    #771
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, SSB, 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 Anas

People whose public names include Anas, 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.

Anas by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,292
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 69
Best rank ever
#1,234
2016
Peak year
2016
151 that year
First recorded
1978
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,906
Count in 2025
151

Names similar to Anas

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

AnayAnandAnakinAnavAnantAnaniasAnanAnaYonasAnaisAnastacioAnanthAnariManasJonasNasAnaelAnatoleAnaghZenasAnarAnakynAnastasiosAnanda

Names with a curve like Anas

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

YasinJiovanniSaifAymanSteeleAmmarDovidJakobiNoamEitanYasirYakov

Sibling names for Anas

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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