Anais

Where Anais comes from

Anais hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

Along the way
  1. 1972
    First appearance
    #8,292 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1973
    Anais Granofsky born
    actress, director, screenwriter
  3. 1991
    Anais Mali born
    fashion model
  4. 2021
    Peak, #825
    337 babies named Anais — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Anais Granofsky · actress, director, screenwriter, born 1973
  • Anais Mali · fashion model, born 1991

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.