How Many People Are Named Anais?

9,222

people named Anais are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 37,061 people in the US has this name

Based on 9,331 babies named Anais in Social Security records from 1972 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#2,585

💎💎 Very Rare

Rank Among Girl Names

#1,432

See the top 100

Peak Year

2021

353 births

Trend

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Stable (last 10 years)

📖 Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: Occitan, Catalan, French
Pronunciation: A-NA-EES (French)
Gender: Primarily Female

Meaning:

Occitan and Catalan form of ANNA.

Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
98.7%
Male
1.3%

Of the babies given the name Anais, 98.7% were girls and 1.3% were boys.

👥 Age Distribution

The average person named Anais alive today is about 18 years old, and 79% are under 30. Half of them were between 7 and 27 in 2025.

Under 30 7,270
78.8%
30 to 59 1,951
21.2%
60 and over 0
0%

📈 Popularity Over Time

Anais first appears in the records in 1972 and was given most often in 2021, to 353 babies. In 2025, 310 babies got the name.

Babies given the name each year, 1972 to 2025

🏆 Rank History

Anais has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #825, in 2021. In 2025 it ranked #892.

Girls
Rank in 2025#892
Best rank#825 (2021)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#1,097 in the 2010s

📍 State-Wise Distribution

People named Anais alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Anais were born in California than in any other state: about 1,935 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Anais was given 2.3 times as often in New York, 2.2 times in Florida and 1.9 times in Illinois.

California 1,935
New York 1,084
Texas 1,029
Florida 894
Illinois 608
New Jersey 341
Arizona 278
Massachusetts 210
Pennsylvania 175
Georgia 164
North Carolina 103
Virginia 91
Washington 89
Colorado 73
Ohio 65
Nevada 45
Maryland 43
Connecticut 35
Michigan 31
Indiana 23
New Mexico 17
Wisconsin 17
Tennessee 12
South Carolina 11
Utah 7
Oklahoma 6
Kansas 6
Missouri 5
Rhode Island 5
Oregon 5
Louisiana 5
District of Columbia 5
Alabama 5

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