Anais
#892 for girls in 2025, 299 births · #7,194 for boys in 2025, 11 births
Given to girls 98.7% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2021 · 337 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 9,213since 1972
Anais over time
Rank among girls' names. Anais has never cracked the top 800 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #892 | 299 | #7,194 | 11 |
| 2024 | #852 | 317 | #7,257 | 11 |
| 2023 | #850 | 315 | #8,255 | 9 |
| 2022 | #840 | 333 | — | |
| 2021 | #825 | 337 | #5,562 | 16 |
| 2020 | #907 | 289 | #10,605 | 6 |
| 2019 | #859 | 312 | — | |
| 2018 | #850 | 319 | #12,156 | 5 |
| 2017 | #1,091 | 232 | #6,060 | 14 |
| 2016 | #1,125 | 225 | #12,185 | 5 |
| 2015 | #1,038 | 256 | — | |
| 2014 | #1,112 | 228 | #8,130 | 9 |
| 2013 | #1,171 | 205 | — | |
| 2012 | #1,167 | 210 | — | |
| 2011 | #1,418 | 160 | — | |
| 2010 | #1,292 | 184 | — | |
| 2009 | #1,106 | 230 | — | |
| 2008 | #1,157 | 222 | — | |
| 2007 | #906 | 303 | #12,367 | 5 |
| 2006 | #869 | 306 | — | |
| 2005 | #940 | 263 | #11,472 | 5 |
| 2004 | #1,404 | 148 | — | |
| 2003 | #990 | 233 | #9,581 | 6 |
| 2002 | #1,044 | 206 | — | |
| 2001 | #1,187 | 172 | — | |
| 2000 | #1,127 | 181 | — | |
| 1999 | #1,012 | 202 | — | |
| 1998 | #1,004 | 199 | — | |
| 1997 | #1,118 | 168 | — | |
| 1996 | #1,071 | 173 | — | |
| 1995 | #1,187 | 144 | — | |
| 1994 | #1,066 | 170 | #8,800 | 5 |
| 1993 | #972 | 193 | — | |
| 1992 | #845 | 235 | — | |
| 1991 | #1,024 | 180 | — | |
| 1990 | #1,154 | 149 | #8,117 | 5 |
| 1989 | #1,080 | 156 | — | |
| 1988 | #876 | 201 | — | |
| 1987 | #1,570 | 80 | — | |
| 1986 | #1,224 | 112 | — | |
| 1985 | #1,066 | 138 | #5,785 | 6 |
| 1984 | #1,087 | 128 | — | |
| 1983 | #2,783 | 31 | — | |
| 1982 | #4,167 | 18 | — | |
| 1981 | #5,254 | 13 | — | |
| 1980 | #10,392 | 5 | — | |
| 1979 | #7,313 | 8 | — | |
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| 1977 | #6,892 | 8 | — | |
| 1976 | #7,296 | 7 | — | |
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| 1973 | #8,423 | 5 | — | |
| 1972 | #8,292 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Anais! It came in at #8,292, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1972–1975, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Anais is popular in 1985
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Florida#507 · 1 in 3,839
- New Jersey#509 · 1 in 4,042
- New York#538 · 1 in 3,959
- Illinois#560 · 1 in 4,562
- Texas#720 · 1 in 6,061
Best ever in a state: #189 in Rhode Island, 2017.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Florida | #507 | 17 | 1 in 3,839 |
| New Jersey | #509 | 10 | 1 in 4,042 |
| New York | #538 | 27 | 1 in 3,959 |
| Illinois | #560 | 16 | 1 in 4,562 |
| Texas | #720 | 22 | 1 in 6,061 |
| California | #801 | 28 | 1 in 7,223 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Anais
- 40 spots since 2024 (#852 → #892)
- 15 spots since 2020 (#907 → #892)
- 146 spots since 2015 (#1,038 → #892)
- Biggest jump: 694 spots in 1988 (#1,570 → #876)
- Biggest drop: 414 spots in 2004 (#990 → #1,404)
- Debuted 1972
- Peaked 2021 at #825 (337 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 15 yrs · run 2018–2025
- Highest: 1 in 4,869 girls born in 2021 were named Anais (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 5,375 girls born in 2025 (0.02%)
- 25.3% of all girls named Anais (2,331) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 33 | #6,892 (1977) | #7,643 |
| 1980s | 882 | #876 (1988) | #2,950 |
| 1990s | 1,813 | #845 (1992) | #1,045 |
| 2000s | 2,264 | #869 (2006) | #1,073 |
| 2010s | 2,331 | #850 (2018) | #1,112 |
| 2020s | 1,890 | #825 (2021) | #861 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Anais in 1985
Top girls' names in 1985
Top boys' names in 1985
More about 1985
girls
1,720,828 girls got a published name in 1985; 1 in 12,470 of them was named Anais, which outranked 91.5% of the 12,505 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 18.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,060Kay139
- #1,060Natosha139
- #1,060Renita139
- #1,066Anais138
- #1,066Francis138
- #1,066Juana138
- #1,066Stephani138
- #1,071Ashlyn137
- #1,071Brian137
- #1,071Vickie137
Tied with 4 names at #1,066; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,848,210 boys got a published name in 1985; 1 in 308,035 of them was named Anais, which outranked 23.7% of the 7,586 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 22.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #5,147Zerrick7
- #5,147Zubin7
- #5,147Zvi7
- #5,785Anais6
- #5,785Aadil6
- #5,785Aarion6
- #5,785Abdel6
- #6,523Aamil5
- #6,523Aarik5
- #6,523Abayomi5
Tied with 737 names at #5,785; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.