girls:
2.9k births since 1880
#3213 (44th percentile)
boys:
7 births since 1917
#4579 (0th percentile)
overall:
2.9k births since 1880
#5015 (35th percentile)
The name Annis is the #5,015 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,921 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 35.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 35.2% of all names). For girls, it ranks #3,213 (43.8% percentile) for all time with 2,914 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,579 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 7 births since 1917.
Annis has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1917 for boys). Birth data for Annis is available in 94 out of the 129 years between 1880 and 2008 (94 years for girls and 1 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 Annis has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.8% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Annis reached its peak popularity in 1920, achieving the 12.7% percentile (ranked #531) with 66 births per million. The name was most common in 1900, with 113 births per million (ranked 8.7% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2008.
For boys, Annis reached its peak popularity in 1917, achieving the 0.4% percentile (ranked #515) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 1917, with 7 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1917.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Annis".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Annis. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 70.7% confident that Annis is pronounced as A-nihs, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is A-neez, at 14.6% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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