Anas
Anas was given to 151 boys in 2025, #1,292 among boys’ names; 2,906 Americans have been recorded with it since 1978 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,870 Americans named Anas and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 6 and 21.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Anas by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Anas?
#1,292 among boys’ names, 2025
Anas rose from #1,601 in 2015 to #1,292 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 52.2 to 88.4 per million.
151 babies in 2016, the peak
Anas peaked in 2016, when 151 boys were given it, #1,234 among boys’ names. The 151 births of 2025 are 100% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 151 | #1,292 | 88.4 |
| 2024 | 136 | #1,384 | 78.9 |
| 2023 | 140 | #1,346 | 81.8 |
| 2022 | 128 | #1,425 | 73.3 |
| 2021 | 123 | #1,461 | 70.3 |
| 2020 | 130 | #1,361 | 75.3 |
| 2019 | 109 | #1,543 | 60.8 |
| 2018 | 122 | #1,432 | 67.2 |
| 2017 | 133 | #1,342 | 71.9 |
| 2016 | 151 | #1,234 | 79.6 |
Every recorded year (47)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 100 | #1,601 | 52.2 |
| 2014 | 111 | #1,465 | 57.8 |
| 2013 | 84 | #1,732 | 44.4 |
| 2012 | 70 | #2,002 | 36.9 |
| 2011 | 92 | #1,644 | 48.4 |
| 2010 | 94 | #1,654 | 49.0 |
| 2009 | 75 | #1,910 | 37.8 |
| 2008 | 73 | #1,949 | 35.8 |
| 2007 | 75 | #1,891 | 36.1 |
| 2006 | 53 | #2,350 | 25.8 |
| 2005 | 74 | #1,770 | 37.0 |
| 2004 | 53 | #2,190 | 26.7 |
| 2003 | 60 | #1,932 | 30.4 |
| 2002 | 59 | #1,887 | 30.4 |
| 2001 | 46 | #2,215 | 23.7 |
| 2000 | 58 | #1,827 | 29.5 |
| 1999 | 43 | #2,161 | 22.4 |
| 1998 | 33 | #2,551 | 17.3 |
| 1997 | 30 | #2,613 | 15.9 |
| 1996 | 30 | #2,531 | 15.8 |
| 1995 | 30 | #2,503 | 15.8 |
| 1994 | 30 | #2,502 | 15.5 |
| 1993 | 29 | #2,504 | 14.8 |
| 1992 | 16 | #3,747 | 8.0 |
| 1991 | 10 | #5,103 | 4.9 |
| 1990 | 18 | #3,309 | 8.8 |
| 1989 | 21 | #2,904 | 10.5 |
| 1988 | 18 | #2,961 | 9.4 |
| 1987 | 13 | #3,530 | 7.0 |
| 1986 | 15 | #3,135 | 8.1 |
| 1985 | 13 | #3,407 | 7.0 |
| 1984 | 9 | #4,225 | 5.0 |
| 1983 | 15 | #2,917 | 8.4 |
| 1982 | 15 | #2,975 | 8.3 |
| 1981 | 5 | #6,310 | 2.8 |
| 1979 | 5 | #6,092 | 2.9 |
| 1978 | 8 | #4,164 | 4.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Anas a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Anas has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 47 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Anas: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Anas, and how old are they?
2,870 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,906 Americans ever recorded as Anas. The median Anas alive today is 12 years old; half are between 6 and 21.
The 2020 Census counted 3,493 people named Anas (84 women and girls, 3,409 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,104 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.7 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 12 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 274 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 973 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,610 |
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 Anas born?
The states with the most babies named Anas are New York, California and Ohio, with 55% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 46 | #382 | 2.4× |
| California | 12 | #1,445 | 0.4× |
| Ohio | 10 | #804 | 0.9× |
| Pennsylvania | 9 | #852 | 0.6× |
| Texas | 8 | #1,916 | 0.4× |
| Wisconsin | 8 | #572 | 0.3× |
| Minnesota | 7 | #646 | 4.4× |
| Virginia | 7 | #877 | 0.5× |
| New Jersey | 6 | #925 | 1.0× |
| Michigan | 5 | #1,120 | 1.1× |
Where Anas is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Anas is most over-represented in Minnesota: since 1978 it was given 4.4 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 boys’ 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 Anas 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 7 names spelled alike, given to 4,484 babies since 1880, Anas is the most given (65% of them). In 2025 it was given to 151 of their 202 babies (75%), 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 Anas
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 Anas and names like it
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- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Anas since 1910.
- The top names of 2016The year the most babies were named Anas.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Anas alive today were born 2013-2025.
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