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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.
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 2016
Top girls' names in 2016
Top boys' names in 2016
More about 2016
girls
1,772,022 girls got a published name in 2016; 1 in 7,876 of them was named Anais, which outranked 94.0% of the 18,885 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,118Ireland226
- #1,118Karis226
- #1,118Litzy226
- #1,125Anais225
- #1,125Adilyn225
- #1,125Emerald225
- #1,125Giavanna225
- #1,132Abbigail224
- #1,132Alissa224
- #1,132Devyn224
Tied with 6 names at #1,125; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,897,738 boys got a published name in 2016; 1 in 379,548 of them was named Anais, which outranked 14.2% of the 14,207 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 2,022 names at #12,185; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.