Anais is a first name typically given to girls, but in rare cases also used as a boys name.
The name Anais isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Anais ranks 899. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 2 were named Anais. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Anais.
The Spanish name Anais was derived from the French Anaïs. Both names go back to the Greek Annais, which is associated with the meaning ‘gracious’. The Greek name is probably a derivation of the Old Persian name Anahita meaning ‘immaculate’ or ‘undefiled’
Anahita is... the name an Iranian goddess of fertility, water and wisdom. Her symbol is the lotus flower.
Anais is a fairly recent phenomenon. In the past, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Then, unexpectedly, Anais cried out for attention, reaching its peak in popularity at #725 in our SmartGenius statistics in the year 2021. People over 50 probably didn't have classmates named Anais, for there were many years in which not a single parent chose this first name for their daughter. Although it also has never been in the top 100 of most popular first names, Anais seems to have been in vogue for a while, especially since the beginning of the new millennium.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Anais was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
331 babies were named Anais in 2022 - that's 1 in 447,831 newborn girls. With this number, the girls' name Anais ranked 767 in our SmartGenius first name statistics in 2022, the most recent year for which records are available.
You may not know anyone named Anais, but there’s a good chance you live in the same state as someone with that name. In fact, 31 states are home to women and girls named Anais. (To be fair, a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s entirely possible that there are still a few women and girls named Anais living in one state or another. If your name is Anais and you live outside of the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can refine our statistics even further). And while the first name is present in many states, it is still not one of the popular ones. In Florida, which has the most people named Anais relative to the population, you still have to ask 6,077 women and girls their names before you hear Anais as an answer just once.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter A is the most popular first letter for girls’ names. 11.8% of all common girls’ names in the US start with this letter. The second most common first letter in girls' names is S.
With five letters, the name Anais is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that if 11.8% of all girls' names start with an A, this initial letter occurs over three times as often as all other letters on average. And, by the way, of all the girls' names that begin with the letter A, the name Ashley is the most common.
If your name is Anais and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Anais, you can simply say:
Apple
Nut
Apple
Igloo
Sun
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Anais
Anais
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
A
N
A
I
S
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
A
N
A
I
S
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Anais sounds like this:
