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Anes

Boys' name

Form of Anas

Anes has been given to 120 babies in the U.S. since 1999. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2009, with 14 recorded.

Babies named Anes, 2021

1 in 484,000

Anes over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Anes: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Anas

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Anes means

Anes is a form of Anas.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Anes is used in Bosnian.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Anes → Anas. The family’s meaning is “friendliness”, recorded in the naming reference for Anas.

Origin, language, and formation

Anes is used in Welsh.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Anas.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Welsh, Anes is pronounced /ˈanɛs/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 120 boys were recorded with the name Anes between 1999 and 2021. Its highest annual count was 14 in 2009; its best national rank was #6,106 in 2009.

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 Anes?

Anes had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2021, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2021
1 in 484,000
7 of 3,389,958 births
Among boys only
1 in 250,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2021
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
335,678 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Anes 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 2021 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 335,678 children born in 2021 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Anes. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Aness were born

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

Median birth year
2008
About 17 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
64.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
120
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 64.2% of all recorded uses (77).

Is Anes 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2009 (14)
Years since peak
16
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
44.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#6,106
2009

Spellings of Anes

Anes is not the most common spelling — James is, with 79.1% against Anes's <0.01%.

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.

Anes around the world

Where Anes 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
    2002–2025
    #4,275
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2010–2020
    #741
    in 2020
  • France
    1982–2025
    #591
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1999–2024
    #1,614
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1971–1971
    #512
    in 1971

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS 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.

Anes by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#6,106
2009
Peak year
2009
14 that year
First recorded
1999
Last recorded
2021
All-time count
120
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Anes

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

AnerAnelEnesAneesAneudyAneilBarnesAnelloYunesAneeshAneekFinesHinesInesAneelAneeqAneasYnesJanesHaynesYounesAgnesHainesArnes

Sibling names for Anes

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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