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Anais

Gender
Girl
Say it
a-na-EES
Origin
Hebrew
UK rank, 2025
#698 for girls
US rank, 2025
#892 for girls

Anais is a girls' name of Hebrew origin, meaning “favour, grace”. In 2025 it ranked 698th for girls in the UK (58 babies) and 892nd for girls in the US (299 babies).

What does Anais mean?

Hebrew: Catalan and Occitan form of Anna

“favour, grace”

A Catalan and Provencal form of Anna; the diarist Anais Nin (1903-1977) made it widely known.

Is Anais a girl's or a boy's name?

Anais is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 58 girls in the UK and 299 girls and 11 boys in the US.

How popular is Anais in the UK?

Rank in 2025
#698among girls
Babies in 2025
58about 1 in 4,800 girls
Five-year trend
Fallingdown 44% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 58 girls in the UK were named Anais, making it the 698th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 369th. Its busiest year was 2015, with 147 girls.

Half of all the girls named Anais in the UK since 1996 were born between 2005 and 2018, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 68 girls in the UK were given Anais or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #580, up from #698 for this spelling alone.

Among girls in 2025, it was 658th in England and Wales.

1996Busiest: 147 in 20152025
Anais in the UK, year by year
YearGirlsRank
202558#698
202456#725
202394#469
2022126#382
2021107#447
2020131#369
2019103#461
2018137#370
2017121#403
2016144#363
2015147#349
2014112#431
201396#484
201297#494
201194#499
2010109#442
2009132#369
2008109#434
2007108#421
2006116#393
2005120#368
2004108#384
2003140#311
200299#381
2001124#319
200087#409
199930#819
199823#1,015
199720#1,087
199616#1,244

How popular is Anais in the US?

Rank in 2025
#892among girls
Babies in 2025
299about 1 in 5,400 girls
Five-year trend
Steadyup 1% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 299 girls in the US were named Anais, making it the 892nd most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 907th. Its busiest year was 2021, with 337 girls. It first appears in the records in 1972. 11 boys were also named Anais in 2025 (7,190th for boys).

2025 had fewer girls named Anais than any year since 2020.

Half of all the girls named Anais in the US since 1880 were born between 1997 and 2018, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 317 girls in the US were given Anais or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #815, up from #892 for this spelling alone.

1972Busiest: 337 in 20212025
Anais in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
2025299#892
2024317#852
2023315#850
2022333#840
2021337#825
2020289#907
2019312#859
2018319#850
2017232#1,091
2016225#1,125
2015256#1,038
2014228#1,112
2013205#1,171
2012210#1,167
2011160#1,418
2010184#1,292
2009230#1,106
2008222#1,157
2007303#906
2006306#869
2005263#940
2004148#1,403
2003233#989
2002206#1,043
2001172#1,186
2000181#1,125
1999202#1,010
1998199#1,003
1997168#1,116
1996173#1,069
1995144#1,184
1994170#1,064
1993193#970
1992235#843
1991180#1,021
1990149#1,150
1989156#1,077
1988201#876
198780#1,569
1986112#1,224
1985138#1,066
1984128#1,087
198331#2,782
198218#4,166
198113#5,253
19805#10,390
19798#7,311
19780–
19778#6,890
19767#7,294
19750–
19740–
19735#8,421
19725#8,290

Names like Anais

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

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Sources

Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and 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, “Anais: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/anais, updated 20 October 2026.