How rare is the name Anais?

7,875 people in the United States have the first name Anais, about 1 in 38,353. It ranks #2,898 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census, tied with 1 other.

first name

ANAIS

#2,898

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
7,875
About
1 in 38,353
This common or more
81.1%
Who bears it

Of the 7,875 people named Anais, 68.7% reported their origin as Hispanic or Latino, 16.2% as White and 8.6% as Black. 98.8% are female. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Anais peaked in 2021, when 353 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19722025
Peak year
2021
Births that year
353
In 2025*
310 ▼12%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 9,331 babies have been given the name since 1972. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Anais by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 2020s, when it ranked #1,606. The largest share of babies named Anais, 40.2%, were born in 2013 or later.

1970s#14,22933
1980s#2,339888
1990s#1,8011,823
2000s#1,8742,280
2010s#1,9592,364
2020s#1,6061,943
Generation X 1965–800.4%
Millennials 1981–9622.9%
Generation Z 1997–1236.5%
2013 and later40.2%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Anais is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Anais has been most common in Florida (3.5×), Arizona (3×), and California (2.6×), and least common in Michigan (0.11×).

7,507 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Exactly as common as Anais

1 other first name also has 7,875 people.

#2,898 Letitia · 7,875

Either side of Anais

#2,896 Jaydon · 7,883#2,897 Jorden · 7,881#2,898 Letitia · 7,875#2,900 Marquise · 7,873

Spelled almost the same

8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Anais, most common first.

#5,048 Anas · 3,493#9,683 Anis · 1,422#12,054 Annis · 1,045#21,445 Anaisa · 473#23,227 Anaise · 423#26,603 Anaiz · 349#29,211 Annais · 304#30,089 Anahis · 291

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