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Annais

Girl · a-na-EES · Hebrew

Annais is a girls' name of Hebrew origin, meaning “favour, grace”. In 2025 it ranked 8,858th for girls in the US (11 babies).

What does Annais mean?

Hebrew: spelling of Anais; 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.

Say it
a-na-EES

Meaning borrowed from Anais.

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

Annais is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 11 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Annais in the US?

Rank in 2025
#8,858among girls
Babies in 2025
11about 1 in 150,000 girls
Five-year trend
Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 11 girls in the US were named Annais, making it the 8,858th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 9,541st. Its busiest year was 2016, with 16 girls. It first appears in the records in 1984.

2025 had more girls named Annais than any year since 2018.

Half of all the girls named Annais in the US since 1880 were born between 1996 and 2016, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 317 girls in the US were given Annais or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #815, up from #8,858 for this spelling alone.

1984Busiest: 16 in 20162025
Annais in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
202511#8,858
20249#10,266
20237#12,192
20228#11,225
202110#9,557
202010#9,541
201910#9,730
201816#7,096
201716#7,088
201616#7,227
201512#8,926
20147#13,063
201314#8,131
201211#9,706
201111#9,719
201011#9,786
200910#10,675
200813#8,961
20078#12,671
20067#13,601
20058#11,828
20046#14,172
20038#11,319
20028#11,102
20016#13,514
20006#13,147
199911#8,216
19987#11,132
19978#9,797
199614#6,387
199512#7,036
19947#10,563
19938#9,552
19927#10,471
199110#7,980
199010#7,874
19899#8,031
198810#7,106
19870–
19865#10,907
19857#8,315
198410#6,290

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