Meaning not yet researched.
Anas: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 151 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,234 in 2016.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,234 in 2016; #1,292 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Anas in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,292 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2016, at #1,234.
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Anas: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 151 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,234 in 2016 · most boys in one year: 151 (2025).
In 2025, 151 US boys were named Anas, making it the 1,292nd most common boys’ name of the year, up 92 places from #1,384 in 2024. That is 15 more than the 136 boys named Anas in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,234, reached in 2016. The most boys given the name in a single year was 151, in 2025. For comparison, it was #1,601 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Anas in 47 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1978 with 8 babies. In all, 2,906 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,066 babies named Anas.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,323 US boys were named Anas; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 151. In 2025 that was about 1 in 11,312 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Anas ranked highest in New York in 2025, at #382 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Anais (9,331 babies since 1880), Anish (3,109 babies since 1880) and Annis (2,921 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Aeneas, Anease and Aniyas 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: Aeneas (472), Anease (6), Aniyas (5), Aynaz (5).
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 Anas in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 40 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 46 | #382 | #953 |
| Wisconsin | 8 | #572 | — |
| Minnesota | 7 | #646 | #428 |
| Ohio | 10 | #804 | #785 |
| Pennsylvania | 9 | #852 | — |
| Virginia | 7 | #877 | — |
| New Jersey | 6 | #925 | #974 |
| Michigan | 5 | #1,120 | — |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,295 | #1,193 |
| California | 12 | #1,445 | #1,882 |
| Texas | 8 | #1,916 | #2,408 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 151 | #1,292 |
| 2024 | — | — | 136 | #1,384 |
| 2023 | — | — | 140 | #1,346 |
| 2022 | — | — | 128 | #1,425 |
| 2021 | — | — | 123 | #1,461 |
| 2020 | — | — | 130 | #1,361 |
| 2019 | — | — | 109 | #1,543 |
| 2018 | — | — | 122 | #1,432 |
| 2017 | — | — | 133 | #1,342 |
| 2016 | — | — | 151 | #1,234 |
| 2015 | — | — | 100 | #1,601 |
| 2014 | — | — | 111 | #1,465 |
| 2013 | — | — | 84 | #1,733 |
| 2012 | — | — | 70 | #2,003 |
| 2011 | — | — | 92 | #1,644 |
| 2010 | — | — | 94 | #1,654 |
| 2009 | — | — | 75 | #1,911 |
| 2008 | — | — | 73 | #1,949 |
| 2007 | — | — | 75 | #1,891 |
| 2006 | — | — | 53 | #2,351 |
| 2005 | — | — | 74 | #1,773 |
| 2004 | — | — | 53 | #2,194 |
| 2003 | — | — | 60 | #1,936 |
| 2002 | — | — | 59 | #1,891 |
| 2001 | — | — | 46 | #2,219 |
| 2000 | — | — | 58 | #1,831 |
| 1999 | — | — | 43 | #2,164 |
| 1998 | — | — | 33 | #2,554 |
| 1997 | — | — | 30 | #2,617 |
| 1996 | — | — | 30 | #2,536 |
| 1995 | — | — | 30 | #2,508 |
| 1994 | — | — | 30 | #2,507 |
| 1993 | — | — | 29 | #2,510 |
| 1992 | — | — | 16 | #3,754 |
| 1991 | — | — | 10 | #5,110 |
| 1990 | — | — | 18 | #3,315 |
| 1989 | — | — | 21 | #2,910 |
| 1988 | — | — | 18 | #2,966 |
| 1987 | — | — | 13 | #3,535 |
| 1986 | — | — | 15 | #3,138 |
| 1985 | — | — | 13 | #3,410 |
| 1984 | — | — | 9 | #4,228 |
| 1983 | — | — | 15 | #2,918 |
| 1982 | — | — | 15 | #2,976 |
| 1981 | — | — | 5 | #6,312 |
| 1979 | — | — | 5 | #6,094 |
| 1978 | — | — | 8 | #4,166 |
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).