Anis

maleStatistical record

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

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

Anis: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #841 in 2004, and it stood at #2,263 in 2024.

1registrar recorded it
34times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#841highest recorded position
9groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1998–2017

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1998	#3848
2006	#5061
2007	#5201
2013	#5742
2017	#5765

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

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

Official data for England and Wales, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #1765 among boys in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Highest recorded1996–2024
Highest recorded position: #841 among boys in England and Wales, in 2004 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #2263 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Boys

Anis appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 366 births with the name.

Anis across 2 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.

Anis'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 · Boys	#1765 (1996)	#841 (2004)	#2263 (2024)	29 of 29	366 (1996–2024)	25 (2004)
England and Wales · Girls	#3848 (1998)	#3848 (1998)	#5765 (2017)	5 of 20	15 (1998–2017)	3 (1998)

Anis by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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 Anis in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	35	4 of 10	9
2000sbusiest	183	10 of 10	18
2010s	114	10 of 10	11
2020s	34	5 of 10	7

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 18 births a year.

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

Anis appears in

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

Popularity data

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #841 in England and Wales in 2004.

Anis'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
2024	England and Wales	male	#2263	10	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#3112	6	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#4001	4	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#2301	9	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#3334	5	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#1745	13	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#2693	7	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#5765	3	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#2734	7	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#2556	8	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#1786	13	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#1819	12	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#5742	3	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#2055	10	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#1756	13	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#1398	17	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#1620	14	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#1099	23	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#1596	13	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#5201	3	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#1053	23	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#5061	3	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#1016	22	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#1456	13	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#841	25	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#889	22	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#993	17	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#1135	13	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#1167	12	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#1130	12	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#3848	3	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#1110	12	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#2022	5	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#1765	6	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 1 registrar between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #841, first reached in 2004.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 25 births, registered in England and Wales in 2004.

1 registrar publishes it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

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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Anisah · #375, 27y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 1 registrar, 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.

Jay-Jay · #841, 27y
Varun · #841, 29y
Anees · #840, 25y
Fatema · #840, 29y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Avni · #841, 29y
Jay-Jay · #841, 27y
Varun · #841, 29y
Abigaile · #842, 13y

Anis was ranked #841 in England and Wales · Boys in 2004. 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.

Anis 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 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Anis without appearing here.

Anis moved ahead of

Graham Compare
In 2023 they stood at #3112 and #1533 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #2263 and #5119.
Jade Compare
In 2023 they stood at #3112 and #2813 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #2263 and #5119.
Courtney Compare
In 2023 they stood at #4001 and #3449 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #2263 and #4270.
Grant Compare
In 2023 they stood at #3112 and #2813 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #2263 and #4270.

Moved ahead of Anis

Matheo Compare
In 2021 they stood at #2301 and #3017 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2022 that had become #4001 and #2018.
Aksel Compare
In 2015 they stood at #1786 and #1902 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2016 that had become #2556 and #1431.
Rune Compare
In 2019 they stood at #1745 and #2104 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2020 that had become #3334 and #2228.
Henrik Compare
In 2015 they stood at #1786 and #2020 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2016 that had become #2556 and #1704.

Moved the opposite way to Anis

Arlo Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Anis went from #1130 to #2263 while Arlo went from #2943 to #15.
Harper Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Anis went from #1130 to #2263 while Harper went from #2425 to #1402.
Kasper Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Anis went from #1130 to #2263 while Kasper went from #2425 to #529.
Rune Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Anis went from #1130 to #2263 while Rune went from #2943 to #1460.

Moved the same way as Anis

Garry Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Boys, Anis went from #1765 to #3112 and Garry from #573 to #4991.
Graeme Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Boys, Anis went from #1765 to #3112 and Graeme from #755 to #4107.
Nicola Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Boys, Anis went from #1765 to #3112 and Nicola from #2863 to #4107.
Brent Compare
Between 1996 and 2022 in England and Wales · Boys, Anis went from #1765 to #4001 and Brent from #898 to #3449.

What's not yet available

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Nicknames and spelling variants

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.

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #841 in England and Wales in 2004. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Anis

Anis at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Anis across 2 official records

Anis by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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Anis across 2 official records

Anis by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Anis

Anis and the names beside it

Anis moved ahead of

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