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Annis

Girls' name

Form of Agnes

Annis has been given to 2,921 babies in the U.S. since 1880. 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 1920, with 82 recorded.

Babies named Annis, 2008

1 in 655,000

Annis over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Annis: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Agnes

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Annis means

Annis is a form of Agnes.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Annis is used in English.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈæn.ɪs/ for Annis.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Annis → Agnes. The family’s meaning is “pure, chaste”, recorded in English with the source elements hagnós.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Agnes.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,914 girls were recorded with the name Annis between 1880 and 2008. Its highest annual count was 82 in 1920; its best national rank was #541 in 1883.

In the United States, 7 boys were recorded with the name Annis between 1917 and 1917. Its highest annual count was 7 in 1917; its best national rank was #3,230 in 1917.

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 Annis?

Annis had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2008, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2008
1 in 655,000
6 of 3,930,727 births
Among girls only
1 in 315,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2008
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
454,097 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Annis 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 2008 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 454,097 children born in 2008 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Annis. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Anniss were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Annis was born before 1925 — so the typical Annis is around 100 today.

Median birth year
1925
About 100 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
20.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
0.72%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
328
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 20.8% of all recorded uses (606).

Is Annis 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
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1920 (82)
Years since peak
105
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
47.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#541
1883

Spellings of Annis

Annis is not the most common spelling — Anna is, with 35.1% against Annis's 0.11%.

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 Annis is used

Across 1910–2025, Annis was most concentrated in Tennessee — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 106,023 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Tennessee1 in 33,333
  2. 2Alabama1 in 50,000
  3. 3Arkansas1 in 100,000
  4. 4Georgia1 in 100,000
  5. 5Indiana1 in 100,000
  6. 6Kentucky1 in 100,000
  7. 7North Carolina1 in 100,000
  8. 8Oklahoma1 in 100,000

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. Annis has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Annis around the world

Where Annis 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
    1997–2023
    #4,710
    in 2023

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Annis in other languages

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

AnniceAnnise

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

Annis by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#541
1883
Peak year
1920
82 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2008
All-time count
2,914
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#3,230
1917
Peak year
1917
7 that year
First recorded
1917
Last recorded
1917
All-time count
7
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Annis

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

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Names with a curve like Annis

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

OssieMammieRosiaJettieVersieLomaFloFloridaFairyGarnettVerdieVerlie

Sibling names for Annis

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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