Anai
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- ah-nah-EE
- US rank, 2025
- #4,660 for girls
Anai is a girls' name. In 2025 it ranked 4,660th for girls in the US (29 babies).
What does Anai mean?
Probably a form of Anahí, from a Guaraní legend
In a Guaraní legend from Argentina and Paraguay, Anahí is a young woman who is turned into the ceibo flower.
Is Anai a girl's or a boy's name?
Anai is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 29 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Anai in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #4,660among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 29about 1 in 55,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steadydown 4% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 29 girls in the US were named Anai, making it the 4,660th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,167th. Its busiest year was 2005, with 139 girls. It first appears in the records in 1984.
Half of all the girls named Anai in the US since 1880 were born between 1999 and 2009, the years shaded on the chart below.
Anai in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 29 | #4,660 |
| 2024 | 22 | #5,612 |
| 2023 | 23 | #5,386 |
| 2022 | 46 | #3,415 |
| 2021 | 34 | #4,163 |
| 2020 | 33 | #4,167 |
| 2019 | 30 | #4,545 |
| 2018 | 14 | #7,758 |
| 2017 | 30 | #4,574 |
| 2016 | 31 | #4,530 |
| 2015 | 35 | #4,143 |
| 2014 | 38 | #3,923 |
| 2013 | 47 | #3,365 |
| 2012 | 39 | #3,914 |
| 2011 | 47 | #3,406 |
| 2010 | 63 | #2,780 |
| 2009 | 79 | #2,424 |
| 2008 | 104 | #2,004 |
| 2007 | 112 | #1,868 |
| 2006 | 129 | #1,639 |
| 2005 | 139 | #1,500 |
| 2004 | 109 | #1,755 |
| 2003 | 116 | #1,651 |
| 2002 | 115 | #1,605 |
| 2001 | 138 | #1,377 |
| 2000 | 107 | #1,646 |
| 1999 | 83 | #1,890 |
| 1998 | 80 | #1,896 |
| 1997 | 58 | #2,306 |
| 1996 | 57 | #2,311 |
| 1995 | 54 | #2,389 |
| 1994 | 58 | #2,250 |
| 1993 | 50 | #2,484 |
| 1992 | 44 | #2,728 |
| 1991 | 40 | #2,880 |
| 1990 | 38 | #2,952 |
| 1989 | 23 | #4,115 |
| 1988 | 13 | #5,890 |
| 1987 | 0 | – |
| 1986 | 6 | #9,540 |
| 1985 | 8 | #7,560 |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,139 |
Names like Anai
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Anahi Armani Avani Amani Anaya Aaliyah Amaya Alani Amari Anika Anya Amira
Names related to Anai
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Anai: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/anai, updated 20 October 2026.