# Anais (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/anais/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 9,331 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 118 / 9,213 (99% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 2,851, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 160 | 1,418 |
| 2012 | 210 | 1,168 |
| 2013 | 205 | 1,171 |
| 2014 | 228 | 1,112 |
| 2015 | 256 | 1,038 |
| 2016 | 225 | 1,126 |
| 2017 | 232 | 1,091 |
| 2018 | 319 | 850 |
| 2019 | 312 | 859 |
| 2020 | 289 | 907 |
| 2021 | 337 | 825 |
| 2022 | 333 | 840 |
| 2023 | 315 | 850 |
| 2024 | 317 | 852 |
| 2025 | 299 | 892 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1985 | 6 | 5,813 |
| 1990 | 5 | 8,164 |
| 1994 | 5 | 8,845 |
| 2003 | 6 | 9,631 |
| 2005 | 5 | 11,558 |
| 2007 | 5 | 12,462 |
| 2014 | 9 | 8,174 |
| 2016 | 5 | 12,300 |
| 2017 | 14 | 6,073 |
| 2018 | 5 | 12,270 |
| 2020 | 6 | 10,678 |
| 2021 | 16 | 5,578 |
| 2023 | 9 | 8,303 |
| 2024 | 11 | 7,286 |
| 2025 | 11 | 7,223 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 91 | 468 |
| 2012 | 95 | 470 |
| 2013 | 93 | 450 |
| 2014 | 102 | 427 |
| 2015 | 140 | 334 |
| 2016 | 134 | 356 |
| 2017 | 116 | 389 |
| 2018 | 131 | 356 |
| 2019 | 96 | 439 |
| 2020 | 127 | 349 |
| 2021 | 102 | 428 |
| 2022 | 121 | 355 |
| 2023 | 91 | 440 |
| 2024 | 56 | 676 |
| 2025 | 58 | 658 |

## People named Anais

- Anaïs Nin, French-born American author (1903–1977)
- Anaïs Demoustier, French actress
- Anaïs Chevalier-Bouchet, French biathlete
- Anaïs Bescond, French biathlete
- Anaïs Mitchell, American singer-songwriter
- Anais Granofsky, actress, director, screenwriter
- Anais Mali, fashion model
- Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette, Canadian actress, film director and screenwriter
- Adele-Anais Toudouze, French artist (1822–1899)
- Anaïs Caradeux, French freestyle skier
- Anaïs Delva, French singer
- Anaïs Bourgoin, French athlete (born 1996)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.