Anais

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Anais: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Anais: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #292 in 2003, and it stood at #608 in 2025.

3registrars recorded it
57times a registrar ranked it
30years from first to last
#292highest recorded position
13groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2025

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#1222
1997	#1015
1998	#925
1999	#752
2000	#375
2001	#298
2002	#361
2003	#292
2004	#367
2005	#343
2006	#381
2007	#401
2008	#416
2009	#351
2010	#409
2011	#468
2012	#470
2013	#450
2014	#427
2015	#334
2016	#356
2017	#389
2018	#356
2019	#439
2020	#349
2021	#428
2022	#355
2023	#440
2024	#676
2025	#658

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2025.

In 2025: #608 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #658 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1996–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #1222 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded1996–2025
Highest recorded position: #292 among girls in England and Wales, in 2003 (recorded 1996–2025).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #658 among girls in England and Wales, in 2025.
England and Wales · Girls

Anais appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 30 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 2,851 births with the name.

Anais across 3 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Anais's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#1222 (1996)	#292 (2003)	#658 (2025)	30 of 30	2,851 (1996–2025)	140 (2015)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#413 (2000)	#413 (2000)	#608 (2025)	20 of 26	82 (2000–2025)	7 (2016)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#384 (2006)	#353 (2016)	#446 (2021)	7 of 16	23 (2006–2021)	4 (2016)

Anais by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Anais in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	88	4 of 10	22
2000s	1,103	10 of 10	110
2010sbusiest	1,105	10 of 10	111
2020s	555	6 of 10	93

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 111 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 1999 and 2000, when recorded births rose by 56, from 30 to 86.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Anais appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #292 in England and Wales in 2003.

Anais's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2025	England and Wales	female	#658	58	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	female	#676	56	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#440	91	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#355	121	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#428	102	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#349	127	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#439	96	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#356	131	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#389	116	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#356	134	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#334	140	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#427	102	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#450	93	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#470	95	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#468	91	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#409	107	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#351	125	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#416	103	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#401	103	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#381	110	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#343	117	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#367	104	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#292	136	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#361	97	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#298	122	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#375	86	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#752	30	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#925	23	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#1015	20	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#1222	15	High	Verified
2021	Northern Ireland	female	#446	3	High	Verified
2019	Northern Ireland	female	#424	3	High	Verified
2018	Northern Ireland	female	#361	4	High	Verified
2016	Northern Ireland	female	#353	4	High	Verified
2015	Northern Ireland	female	#426	3	High	Verified
2009	Northern Ireland	female	#419	3	High	Verified
2006	Northern Ireland	female	#384	3	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	female	#608	5	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#736	4	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	female	#856	3	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	female	#634	5	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	female	#661	5	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	female	#834	3	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	female	#621	5	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	female	#734	4	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	female	#579	6	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	female	#515	7	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	female	#751	4	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	female	#747	4	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	female	#937	3	High	Verified
2009	Republic of Ireland	female	#893	3	High	Verified
2008	Republic of Ireland	female	#862	3	High	Verified
2007	Republic of Ireland	female	#705	4	High	Verified
2006	Republic of Ireland	female	#764	3	High	Verified
2005	Republic of Ireland	female	#689	3	High	Verified
2002	Republic of Ireland	female	#620	3	High	Verified
2000	Republic of Ireland	female	#413	5	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

Where Anais is officially recorded

3 official registrars have recorded Anais, between 1996 and 2025. Each registrar publishes for its own population on its own methodology, so the positions below are each one country's own ranking and are not comparable with one another.

Registrar	Recorded	Years	Its own highest position
England and Wales	1996–2025	30	#292 in 2003
Republic of Ireland	2000–2025	20	#413 in 2000
Northern Ireland	2006–2021	7	#353 in 2016

Its high point came 16 years earlier in Republic of Ireland (2000) than in Northern Ireland (2016).

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1996 and 2025, ranked in 30 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #292, first reached in 2003.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 140 births, registered in England and Wales in 2015.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2000, and 10 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Arvin · #291, 30y
Jenni · #293, 35y
Sumaya · #291, 31y
Shawn · #290, 30y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Ioan · #292, 30y
Oluwatobi · #292, 30y
Arvin · #291, 30y
Bobbi · #291, 30y

Anais was ranked #292 in England and Wales · Girls in 2003. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Kirsten#289
Scarlet#291
Leanne#292
Serena#292
Safa#295
Salma#295
Iona#297
Khadija#297

Anais and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,577 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Anais without appearing here.

Anais moved ahead of

Helene
In 1996 they stood at #1222 and #1168 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1997 that had become #1015 and #1802.
Belinda
In 1999 they stood at #752 and #736 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2000 that had become #375 and #969.
Brittany
In 2000 they stood at #375 and #275 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2001 that had become #298 and #871.
Carol
In 1997 they stood at #1015 and #897 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1998 that had become #925 and #1480.

Moved ahead of Anais

Daisy
In 2001 they stood at #413 and #465 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2002 that had become #620 and #254.
Layla
In 2001 they stood at #413 and #465 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2002 that had become #620 and #312.
Monica
In 2019 they stood at #579 and #734 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2020 that had become #834 and #544.
Charlie
In 2001 they stood at #413 and #536 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2002 that had become #620 and #352.

Moved the opposite way to Anais

Abigail
Between 1996 and 2025 in England and Wales · Girls, Anais went from #1222 to #658 while Abigail went from #21 to #171.
Aimee
Between 1996 and 2025 in England and Wales · Girls, Anais went from #1222 to #658 while Aimee went from #70 to #1809.
Aisling
Between 1996 and 2025 in England and Wales · Girls, Anais went from #1222 to #658 while Aisling went from #440 to #1892.
Alex
Between 1996 and 2025 in England and Wales · Girls, Anais went from #1222 to #658 while Alex went from #161 to #2605.

Moved the same way as Anais

Ada
Between 1996 and 2025 in England and Wales · Girls, Anais went from #1222 to #658 and Ada from #2683 to #40.
Alma
Between 1996 and 2025 in England and Wales · Girls, Anais went from #1222 to #658 and Alma from #2096 to #211.
Alyssa
Between 1996 and 2025 in England and Wales · Girls, Anais went from #1222 to #658 and Alyssa from #783 to #325.
Amalie
Between 1996 and 2025 in England and Wales · Girls, Anais went from #1222 to #658 and Amalie from #2096 to #894.

What's not yet available

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #292 in England and Wales in 2003. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Anais

Anais at a glance

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Popularity journey

Anais across 3 official records

Anais by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Anais appears in

Popularity data

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Anais across 3 official records

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