Ànis
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Ànis is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Arabic أنيس (ʔanīs, “close friend”).
- DZAlgeria≈1 in 176K(inferred from the name graph)
- TNTunisia≈1 in 529K
- SISlovenia1 in 13K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 282 (measured from records)
- 1 in 13K (inferred from the name graph)
1,422 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Slovenia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Anis in TN Tunisia, DZ Algeria, US United States.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Borrowed from Arabic أنيس (ʔanīs, “close friend”).
Cited for this meaning 7
- Dictionary of Islamic Names
- Il grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
- Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
- Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
- Wiktionary
Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Ànis counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 1,422 | 1 in 234K | 1.1K | Anis | 90 |
| ES Spain | — | 598 | 1 in 84K | 598 | — | 11 |
| SE Sweden | — | 338 | 1 in 30K | 338 | — | 9 |
| DZ Algeria | #371 | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 176K | — | Anis | 43 |
| BR Brazil | — | 236 | 1 in 897K | 236 | — | — |
| SI Slovenia | — | 167 | 1 in 13K | 174 | — | — |
| AL Albania | — | 129 | 1 in 24K | 124 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | — | 85 | 1 in 69K | 71 | — | — |
| TN Tunisia | #233 | ≈22 est. | ≈1 in 529K | 2.3K | Anis | 48 |
1,422 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: INS Tunisia — Les prénoms des nouveau-nés les plus populaires (2022); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); SURS — resident population given names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Ànis is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Croatian, bot. jednogodišnja začinska i ljekovita biljka ( Pimpinella anisum ) iz porodice štitarki ( Umbelliferae ), aromatičnih plodova
as a wordHrvatski jezični portal (HJP) dictionary export
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ànis mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Arabic أنيس (ʔanīs, “close friend”). Recorded by Dictionary of Islamic Names and Il grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,… and 5 other sources.
- Is Ànis a male or female name?
- Ànis is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Ànis have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.4 thousand people named Ànis, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled anis.
- Where is Ànis most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ànis is densest in Slovenia — about 1 in 13 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Ànis?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,422 people named Ànis in 2020, about 1 in 234 thousand residents.
- How common is Ànis compared with other names?
- In Tunisia, Ànis is the 233rd most common given name of 13,277 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C3%A0nisThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Ànis” — the 233rd most common given name in Tunisia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.