Meaning not yet researched.
Anais: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 299 in 2025. Its best rank was #825 in 2021.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #825 in 2021; #892 in 2025. About 96% of babies named Anais in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#892 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2021, at #825.
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Anais: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 299 girls in 2025. Peak: #825 in 2021 · most girls in one year: 337 (2021).
In 2025, 299 US girls were named Anais, making it the 892nd most common girls’ name of the year, down 40 places from #852 in 2024. That is 18 fewer than the 317 girls named Anais in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #825, reached in 2021. That year also had the most girls given the name: 337. For comparison, it was #1,038 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Anais in 51 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1972 with 5 babies. In all, 9,331 US babies have been given the name, 99% of them girls and 1.3% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 2,364 babies named Anais.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,978 US girls were named Anais; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 337. In 2025 that was about 1 in 5,375 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Anais ranked highest in Arizona in 2025, at #447 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Anisa (5,558 babies since 1880), Anish (3,109 babies since 1880), Annis (2,921 babies since 1880) and Anas (2,906 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Anise, Anaise and Anis are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Anise (1,242), Anaise (489), Anis (426), Anias (421), Annais (394), Anaiz (391), Anahis (244), Annise (230), Anes (120), Anays (91), Anees (83), Annas (56), and more.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Anais in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 35 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arizona | 15 | #447 | — |
| Utah | 7 | #543 | — |
| New York | 28 | #589 | #591 |
| California | 46 | #675 | #828 |
| Florida | 25 | #677 | #668 |
| Massachusetts | 7 | #687 | #681 |
| Texas | 44 | #688 | #1,148 |
| Virginia | 9 | #763 | #777 |
| Illinois | 11 | #802 | #558 |
| Washington | 7 | #818 | — |
| New Jersey | 8 | #852 | #621 |
| Ohio | 10 | #884 | #1,290 |
| Indiana | 5 | #1,048 | — |
| Georgia | 8 | #1,085 | #1,061 |
| North Carolina | 7 | #1,148 | #1,240 |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | #1,246 | #752 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 299 | #892 | 11 | #7,223 |
| 2024 | 317 | #852 | 11 | #7,286 |
| 2023 | 315 | #850 | 9 | #8,303 |
| 2022 | 333 | #840 | — | — |
| 2021 | 337 | #825 | 16 | #5,578 |
| 2020 | 289 | #907 | 6 | #10,678 |
| 2019 | 312 | #859 | — | — |
| 2018 | 319 | #850 | 5 | #12,270 |
| 2017 | 232 | #1,091 | 14 | #6,073 |
| 2016 | 225 | #1,126 | 5 | #12,300 |
| 2015 | 256 | #1,038 | — | — |
| 2014 | 228 | #1,112 | 9 | #8,174 |
| 2013 | 205 | #1,171 | — | — |
| 2012 | 210 | #1,168 | — | — |
| 2011 | 160 | #1,418 | — | — |
| 2010 | 184 | #1,292 | — | — |
| 2009 | 230 | #1,106 | — | — |
| 2008 | 222 | #1,157 | — | — |
| 2007 | 303 | #906 | 5 | #12,462 |
| 2006 | 306 | #869 | — | — |
| 2005 | 263 | #940 | 5 | #11,558 |
| 2004 | 148 | #1,405 | — | — |
| 2003 | 233 | #991 | 6 | #9,631 |
| 2002 | 206 | #1,044 | — | — |
| 2001 | 172 | #1,187 | — | — |
| 2000 | 181 | #1,127 | — | — |
| 1999 | 202 | #1,012 | — | — |
| 1998 | 199 | #1,004 | — | — |
| 1997 | 168 | #1,118 | — | — |
| 1996 | 173 | #1,071 | — | — |
| 1995 | 144 | #1,189 | — | — |
| 1994 | 170 | #1,066 | 5 | #8,845 |
| 1993 | 193 | #973 | — | — |
| 1992 | 235 | #845 | — | — |
| 1991 | 180 | #1,024 | — | — |
| 1990 | 149 | #1,154 | 5 | #8,164 |
| 1989 | 156 | #1,080 | — | — |
| 1988 | 201 | #877 | — | — |
| 1987 | 80 | #1,572 | — | — |
| 1986 | 112 | #1,224 | — | — |
| 1985 | 138 | #1,066 | 6 | #5,813 |
| 1984 | 128 | #1,087 | — | — |
| 1983 | 31 | #2,785 | — | — |
| 1982 | 18 | #4,173 | — | — |
| 1981 | 13 | #5,268 | — | — |
| 1980 | 5 | #10,460 | — | — |
| 1979 | 8 | #7,343 | — | — |
| 1977 | 8 | #6,913 | — | — |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,323 | — | — |
| 1973 | 5 | #8,471 | — | — |
| 1972 | 5 | #8,331 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).