# Anas (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/anas/  
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 | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 2,906 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 2,906 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 2,419, 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, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 92 | 1,644 |
| 2012 | 70 | 2,003 |
| 2013 | 84 | 1,733 |
| 2014 | 111 | 1,465 |
| 2015 | 100 | 1,601 |
| 2016 | 151 | 1,234 |
| 2017 | 133 | 1,342 |
| 2018 | 122 | 1,432 |
| 2019 | 109 | 1,543 |
| 2020 | 130 | 1,361 |
| 2021 | 123 | 1,461 |
| 2022 | 128 | 1,425 |
| 2023 | 140 | 1,346 |
| 2024 | 136 | 1,384 |
| 2025 | 151 | 1,292 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 103 | 384 |
| 2012 | 86 | 460 |
| 2013 | 101 | 402 |
| 2014 | 101 | 402 |
| 2015 | 96 | 429 |
| 2016 | 93 | 442 |
| 2017 | 79 | 501 |
| 2018 | 77 | 504 |
| 2019 | 91 | 445 |
| 2020 | 94 | 426 |
| 2021 | 99 | 423 |
| 2022 | 145 | 311 |
| 2023 | 113 | 364 |
| 2024 | 137 | 318 |
| 2025 | 143 | 312 |

## People named Anas

- Anas ibn Malik, companion (Sahabi) of Muhammad
- Anas Sharbini, Croatian footballer
- Anas Bani Yaseen, football player
- Anas Tahiri, Belgian footballer
- Anas Haqqani, Afghan Taliban leader, commander and poet
- Anas Ouahim, association football player

## 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.