Anais Girl
How popular is Anais?
#892 girl name in 2025
299 baby girls were named Anais in the US in 2025, making it the 892nd most popular girl name. Another 11 boys got the name (#7,190 for boys).
Anais popularity over time
Boys Girls
| Rank in 2025 | #892 for girls (▼ 40 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 299 girls, 11 boys |
| 10-year trend | Rising (+17% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #1,038 in 2015, #907 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2021 (337 girls) |
| Highest rank | #825 in 2021 |
| First recorded | 1972 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 3% boys, 97% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.2% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Anais counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Anais family of names ranked #749 for girls in 2025 (#747 the year before), with 342 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Anais | 299 | 87% |
| Anaise | 16 | 5% |
| Annais | 11 | 3% |
| Anise | 9 | 3% |
| Anaiz | 7 | 2% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Anais is most popular
Babies named Anais per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Nevada: 0.5 per 1,000 (21 girls)
- Arizona: 0.4 per 1,000 (55 girls)
- Florida: 0.4 per 1,000 (155 girls)
- Massachusetts: 0.3 per 1,000 (40 girls)
- New York: 0.3 per 1,000 (130 girls)
Anais by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 33 | #6,890 |
| 1980s | 882 | #876 |
| 1990s | 1,813 | #843 |
| 2000s | 2,264 | #869 |
| 2010s | 2,331 | #850 |
| 2020s | 1,890 | #825 |
Girl names about as popular as Anais
Questions
- Is Anais a boy or girl name?
- Anais is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 97% of babies named Anais were girls.
- How popular is the name Anais?
- 299 baby girls were named Anais in the US in 2025, making it the 892nd most popular girl name. Another 11 boys got the name (#7,190 for boys).
- When was Anais most popular?
- Anais peaked in 2021, when 337 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #825 in 2021.
- How many people are named Anais?
- 9,331 babies have been named Anais in the US since 1880. We estimate about 9,238 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 18.
- Where is Anais most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Anais was most common in Nevada, at 0.5 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.