Anais
#892 for girls in 2025, 299 births · #7,194 for boys in 2025, 11 births
Given to girls 98.7% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2021 · 337 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 9,213since 1972
Anais over time
Rank among girls' names. Anais has never cracked the top 800 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #892 | 299 | #7,194 | 11 |
| 2024 | #852 | 317 | #7,257 | 11 |
| 2023 | #850 | 315 | #8,255 | 9 |
| 2022 | #840 | 333 | — | |
| 2021 | #825 | 337 | #5,562 | 16 |
| 2020 | #907 | 289 | #10,605 | 6 |
| 2019 | #859 | 312 | — | |
| 2018 | #850 | 319 | #12,156 | 5 |
| 2017 | #1,091 | 232 | #6,060 | 14 |
| 2016 | #1,125 | 225 | #12,185 | 5 |
| 2015 | #1,038 | 256 | — | |
| 2014 | #1,112 | 228 | #8,130 | 9 |
| 2013 | #1,171 | 205 | — | |
| 2012 | #1,167 | 210 | — | |
| 2011 | #1,418 | 160 | — | |
| 2010 | #1,292 | 184 | — | |
| 2009 | #1,106 | 230 | — | |
| 2008 | #1,157 | 222 | — | |
| 2007 | #906 | 303 | #12,367 | 5 |
| 2006 | #869 | 306 | — | |
| 2005 | #940 | 263 | #11,472 | 5 |
| 2004 | #1,404 | 148 | — | |
| 2003 | #990 | 233 | #9,581 | 6 |
| 2002 | #1,044 | 206 | — | |
| 2001 | #1,187 | 172 | — | |
| 2000 | #1,127 | 181 | — | |
| 1999 | #1,012 | 202 | — | |
| 1998 | #1,004 | 199 | — | |
| 1997 | #1,118 | 168 | — | |
| 1996 | #1,071 | 173 | — | |
| 1995 | #1,187 | 144 | — | |
| 1994 | #1,066 | 170 | #8,800 | 5 |
| 1993 | #972 | 193 | — | |
| 1992 | #845 | 235 | — | |
| 1991 | #1,024 | 180 | — | |
| 1990 | #1,154 | 149 | #8,117 | 5 |
| 1989 | #1,080 | 156 | — | |
| 1988 | #876 | 201 | — | |
| 1987 | #1,570 | 80 | — | |
| 1986 | #1,224 | 112 | — | |
| 1985 | #1,066 | 138 | #5,785 | 6 |
| 1984 | #1,087 | 128 | — | |
| 1983 | #2,783 | 31 | — | |
| 1982 | #4,167 | 18 | — | |
| 1981 | #5,254 | 13 | — | |
| 1980 | #10,392 | 5 | — | |
| 1979 | #7,313 | 8 | — | |
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| 1977 | #6,892 | 8 | — | |
| 1976 | #7,296 | 7 | — | |
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| 1973 | #8,423 | 5 | — | |
| 1972 | #8,292 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Anais! It came in at #8,292, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1972–1975, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Anais is popular in 1992
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New York#462 · 1 in 3,138
- California#472 · 1 in 2,885
- Illinois#541 · 1 in 3,764
- Texas#598 · 1 in 4,169
- Arizona#691 · 1 in 4,365
Best ever in a state: #189 in Rhode Island, 2017.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| New York | #462 | 37 | 1 in 3,138 |
| California | #472 | 89 | 1 in 2,885 |
| Illinois | #541 | 20 | 1 in 3,764 |
| Texas | #598 | 33 | 1 in 4,169 |
| Arizona | #691 | 6 | 1 in 4,365 |
| Florida | #732 | 13 | 1 in 5,775 |
| New Jersey | #832 | 6 | 1 in 7,590 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Anais
- 40 spots since 2024 (#852 → #892)
- 15 spots since 2020 (#907 → #892)
- 146 spots since 2015 (#1,038 → #892)
- Biggest jump: 694 spots in 1988 (#1,570 → #876)
- Biggest drop: 414 spots in 2004 (#990 → #1,404)
- Debuted 1972
- Peaked 2021 at #825 (337 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 15 yrs · run 2018–2025
- Highest: 1 in 4,869 girls born in 2021 were named Anais (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 5,375 girls born in 2025 (0.02%)
- 25.3% of all girls named Anais (2,331) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 33 | #6,892 (1977) | #7,643 |
| 1980s | 882 | #876 (1988) | #2,950 |
| 1990s | 1,813 | #845 (1992) | #1,045 |
| 2000s | 2,264 | #869 (2006) | #1,073 |
| 2010s | 2,331 | #850 (2018) | #1,112 |
| 2020s | 1,890 | #825 (2021) | #861 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Anais in 1992
Top girls' names in 1992
More about 1992
girls
1,843,931 girls got a published name in 1992; 1 in 7,847 of them was named Anais, which outranked 94.6% of the 15,610 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 13.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
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- #842Macey236
- #842Whitley236
- #845Anais235
- #845Bernadette235
- #845Gabriel235
- #845Kallie235
- #852Alayna234
- #852Ellie234
- #854Anissa233
Tied with 6 names at #845; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.