Anais — #854 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Anais

The Social Security Administration has registered 8,911 babies named Anais between 1972 and 2024, spanning 53 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Anais currently holds the #854 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2021, when 337 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Anais performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 2,331 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Anais shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 1,914 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Anais in 32 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Anais in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 8,911 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.