Anis
Anis was given to 8 boys in 2025, #8,958 among boys’ names; 426 Americans have been recorded with it since 1887 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Anis by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Anis?
#8,958 among boys’ names, 2025
Anis fell from #7,523 in 2015 to #8,958 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 5.2 to 4.7 per million.
21 babies in 2005, the peak
Anis peaked in 2005, when 21 babies were given it (13 boys, #5,883 among boys’ names). The 8 births of 2025 are 38% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | under 5 | 8 | #8,958 | |
| 2024 | under 5 | 13 | #6,484 | |
| 2023 | under 5 | 7 | #9,819 | |
| 2022 | under 5 | 10 | #7,792 | |
| 2021 | under 5 | 7 | #9,782 | |
| 2020 | under 5 | 11 | #7,062 | |
| 2019 | under 5 | 8 | #8,948 | |
| 2018 | under 5 | 12 | #6,724 | |
| 2017 | under 5 | 16 | #5,533 | |
| 2016 | under 5 | 13 | #6,371 |
Every recorded year (44)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | under 5 | 10 | #7,523 | |
| 2014 | under 5 | 12 | #6,652 | |
| 2013 | under 5 | 14 | #5,937 | |
| 2012 | under 5 | 10 | #7,585 | |
| 2011 | under 5 | 12 | #6,596 | |
| 2010 | under 5 | 16 | #5,493 | |
| 2009 | under 5 | 6 | #11,080 | |
| 2008 | under 5 | 19 | #4,908 | |
| 2007 | under 5 | 16 | #5,443 | |
| 2006 | under 5 | 12 | #6,478 | |
| 2005 | 8 | #11,923 | 13 | #5,883 |
| 2004 | under 5 | 10 | #7,001 | |
| 2003 | under 5 | 9 | #7,265 | |
| 2002 | under 5 | 14 | #5,140 | |
| 2001 | under 5 | 9 | #6,954 | |
| 2000 | under 5 | 10 | #6,333 | |
| 1998 | 5 | #14,293 | 12 | #5,165 |
| 1995 | 6 | #11,877 | under 5 | |
| 1994 | under 5 | 5 | #8,845 | |
| 1992 | under 5 | 7 | #6,694 | |
| 1990 | under 5 | 9 | #5,390 | |
| 1987 | under 5 | 6 | #6,123 | |
| 1986 | under 5 | 5 | #6,765 | |
| 1985 | under 5 | 5 | #6,570 | |
| 1984 | under 5 | 5 | #6,355 | |
| 1982 | under 5 | 5 | #6,413 | |
| 1941 | 5 | #4,436 | under 5 | |
| 1934 | 5 | #4,308 | under 5 | |
| 1930 | 6 | #4,061 | under 5 | |
| 1929 | 6 | #4,074 | under 5 | |
| 1925 | 12 | #2,781 | under 5 | |
| 1922 | 6 | #4,471 | under 5 | |
| 1917 | 6 | #4,106 | under 5 | |
| 1887 | 5 | #1,156 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Anis a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 426 Americans recorded as Anis, 16% are girls and 84% boys. In 2025 it went to 8 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Anis: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Anis, and how old are they?
An estimated 373 Americans named Anis and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (88% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 10 and 24. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,422 people named Anis (318 women and girls, 1,104 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 327 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4.3 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Anis rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 4,012 babies since 1880, Anis is the second most given (11% of them). In 2025 it was given to 8 of their 193 babies (4.1%), the third most given that year.
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.
More about Anis and names like it
- Compare Anis and AnasBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sAnis peaked in 2005.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Anis since 1910.
- The top names of 2005The year the most babies were named Anis.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Anis alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.