# Anis (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/anis/  
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 and girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 426 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 356 / 70 (16% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 384, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 1887 | 5 | 1,156 |
| 1917 | 6 | 4,108 |
| 1922 | 6 | 4,473 |
| 1925 | 12 | 2,782 |
| 1929 | 6 | 4,076 |
| 1930 | 6 | 4,063 |
| 1934 | 5 | 4,310 |
| 1941 | 5 | 4,438 |
| 1995 | 6 | 11,882 |
| 1998 | 5 | 14,300 |
| 2005 | 8 | 11,929 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 12 | 6,602 |
| 2012 | 10 | 7,591 |
| 2013 | 14 | 5,941 |
| 2014 | 12 | 6,657 |
| 2015 | 10 | 7,528 |
| 2016 | 13 | 6,376 |
| 2017 | 16 | 5,537 |
| 2018 | 12 | 6,728 |
| 2019 | 8 | 8,953 |
| 2020 | 11 | 7,067 |
| 2021 | 7 | 9,787 |
| 2022 | 10 | 7,797 |
| 2023 | 7 | 9,824 |
| 2024 | 13 | 6,489 |
| 2025 | 8 | 8,962 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 3 | 3,848 |
| 2006 | 3 | 5,061 |
| 2007 | 3 | 5,201 |
| 2013 | 3 | 5,742 |
| 2017 | 3 | 5,765 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 17 | 1,398 |
| 2012 | 13 | 1,756 |
| 2013 | 10 | 2,055 |
| 2014 | 12 | 1,819 |
| 2015 | 13 | 1,786 |
| 2016 | 8 | 2,556 |
| 2017 | 7 | 2,734 |
| 2018 | 7 | 2,693 |
| 2019 | 13 | 1,745 |
| 2020 | 5 | 3,334 |
| 2021 | 9 | 2,301 |
| 2022 | 4 | 4,001 |
| 2023 | 6 | 3,112 |
| 2024 | 10 | 2,263 |
| 2025 | 3 | 5,137 |

## People named Anis

- Anis Mehmeti, Albanian-English footballer
- Anis Mansour, Egyptian writer (1924–2011)
- Anis Djaad, Algerian film director, screenwriter, and writer,
- Anis Ananenka, Belarusian distance runner

## 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.