Anais
Anais was given to 299 girls in 2025, #892 among girls’ names; 9,331 Americans have been recorded with it since 1972 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 9,220 Americans named Anais and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 8 and 28.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Anais by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Anais?
#892 among girls’ names, 2025
Anais rose from #1,038 in 2015 to #892 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.14 to 0.19 per 1,000.
353 babies in 2021, the peak
Anais peaked in 2021, when 353 babies were given it (337 girls, #825 among girls’ names). The 310 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 88% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 299 | #892 | 0.19 |
| 2024 | 317 | #852 | 0.20 |
| 2023 | 315 | #850 | 0.20 |
| 2022 | 333 | #840 | 0.20 |
| 2021 | 337 | #825 | 0.21 |
| 2020 | 289 | #907 | 0.18 |
| 2019 | 312 | #859 | 0.19 |
| 2018 | 319 | #850 | 0.19 |
| 2017 | 232 | #1,091 | 0.13 |
| 2016 | 225 | #1,126 | 0.13 |
Every recorded year (51)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 256 | #1,038 | 0.14 |
| 2014 | 228 | #1,112 | 0.13 |
| 2013 | 205 | #1,171 | 0.12 |
| 2012 | 210 | #1,168 | 0.12 |
| 2011 | 160 | #1,418 | 0.09 |
| 2010 | 184 | #1,292 | 0.10 |
| 2009 | 230 | #1,106 | 0.13 |
| 2008 | 222 | #1,157 | 0.12 |
| 2007 | 303 | #906 | 0.16 |
| 2006 | 306 | #869 | 0.16 |
| 2005 | 263 | #940 | 0.14 |
| 2004 | 148 | #1,404 | 0.08 |
| 2003 | 233 | #990 | 0.13 |
| 2002 | 206 | #1,043 | 0.11 |
| 2001 | 172 | #1,186 | 0.10 |
| 2000 | 181 | #1,125 | 0.10 |
| 1999 | 202 | #1,010 | 0.11 |
| 1998 | 199 | #1,003 | 0.11 |
| 1997 | 168 | #1,116 | 0.10 |
| 1996 | 173 | #1,069 | 0.10 |
| 1995 | 144 | #1,186 | 0.08 |
| 1994 | 170 | #1,064 | 0.10 |
| 1993 | 193 | #971 | 0.11 |
| 1992 | 235 | #843 | 0.13 |
| 1991 | 180 | #1,021 | 0.10 |
| 1990 | 149 | #1,150 | 0.08 |
| 1989 | 156 | #1,077 | 0.08 |
| 1988 | 201 | #877 | 0.11 |
| 1987 | 80 | #1,571 | 0.05 |
| 1986 | 112 | #1,224 | 0.07 |
| 1985 | 138 | #1,066 | 0.08 |
| 1984 | 128 | #1,087 | 0.08 |
| 1983 | 31 | #2,784 | 0.02 |
| 1982 | 18 | #4,172 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 13 | #5,267 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 5 | #10,458 | under 0.01 |
| 1979 | 8 | #7,341 | under 0.01 |
| 1977 | 8 | #6,911 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,321 | under 0.01 |
| 1973 | 5 | #8,469 | under 0.01 |
| 1972 | 5 | #8,329 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Anais a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 9,331 Americans recorded as Anais, 99% are girls and 1% boys. In 2025 it went to 299 girls and 11 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Anais: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Anais, and how old are they?
9,220 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 9,331 Americans ever recorded as Anais. The median Anais alive today is 18 years old; half are between 8 and 28.
The 2020 Census counted 7,875 people named Anais (7,778 women and girls, 97 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 7,381 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 36 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,080 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,370 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 3,730 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Anais born?
The states with the most babies named Anais are California, Texas and New York, with 49% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 46 | #675 | 1.6× |
| Texas | 44 | #688 | 1.1× |
| New York | 28 | #589 | 1.9× |
| Florida | 25 | #677 | 1.8× |
| Arizona | 15 | #447 | 1.4× |
| Illinois | 11 | #802 | 1.6× |
| Ohio | 10 | #884 | 0.2× |
| Virginia | 9 | #763 | 0.4× |
| New Jersey | 8 | #852 | 1.3× |
| Georgia | 8 | #1,085 | 0.5× |
Where Anais is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Anais is most over-represented in New York: since 1972 it was given 1.9 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Anais with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 12,981 babies since 1880, Anais is the most given (72% of them). In 2025 it was given to 310 of their 327 babies (95%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Anais
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Anais and names like it
- Compare Anais and AnnisBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sAnais peaked in 2021.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Anais since 1910.
- The top names of 2021The year the most babies were named Anais.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Anais alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.