girls:
8.6k births since 1972
#1759 (69th percentile)
boys:
96 births since 1985
#4490 (2nd percentile)
overall:
8.7k births since 1972
#2903 (62nd percentile)
The name Anais is the #2,903 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 8,690 recorded births since 1972. This represents the 62.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 62.5% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,759 (69.2% percentile) for all time with 8,594 births since 1972. For boys, it ranks #4,490 (2.0% percentile) for all time with 96 births since 1985.
Anais first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1972 (1972 for girls and 1985 for boys). Birth data for Anais is available in 49 out of the 52 years between 1972 and 2023 (49 years for girls and 13 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Anais has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 98.9% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Anais reached its peak popularity in 2021, achieving the 34.0% percentile (ranked #618) with 188 births per million. The name was most common in 2021, with 188 births per million (ranked 34.0% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2013, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Anais is at or near its peak popularity for girls, ranked #646 (31.8% percentile) with 180 births per million.
For boys, Anais reached its peak popularity in 2021, achieving the 1.2% percentile (ranked #919) with 9 births per million. The name was most common in 2021, with 9 births per million (ranked 1.2% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2016, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Anais ranks #907 for boys (0.4% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 57.6% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Anais".
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Our model has identified 21 different pronunciations for the name Anais. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 18.4% confident that Anais is pronounced as uh-NUH-ees, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is ah-nah-EES, at 12.2% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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