Anaïs
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Anaïs är en katalansk form av namnet Anna
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/anais/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Anaïs is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 839(inferred from the name graph)
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 2.5K
- CLChile≈1 in 2.8K
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.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 353 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 839 (inferred from the name graph)
≈81,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Anais in FR France, VE Venezuela, CL Chile and 4 more.
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)
Anaïs är en katalansk form av namnet Anna. Namnet brukades i Frankrike under 1800-talet och blev populärt där igen på 1980-talet på grund av att det användes som namn på en parfym, vilket också ledde till vidare användning i andra delar av världen. En känd namnbärare var Anaïs Nin (1903–77), en franskfödd amerikansk författare.
Sources 1
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Attested across 27 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Anaïs 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | #107 | ≈81,000 est. | ≈1 in 839 | 133K | Anais | 353 |
| VE Venezuela | #245 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.5K | — | Anais | 53 |
| US United States | — | 7,875 | 1 in 42K | 7.8K | Anais | 273 |
| ES Spain | #494 | 6,517 | 1 in 7.7K | 6.5K | Anais | 112 |
| CL Chile | #308 | ≈6,500 est. | ≈1 in 2.8K | 220 | Anais | 55 |
| BE Belgium | #254 | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 4.2K | 54 | Anais | 97 |
| PA Panama | #108 | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.9K | — | Anais | 29 |
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: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns). 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)
Anaïs 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.
Catalan and Provençal derivative of ANA .
as a word
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Anaïs Ninb. 1903FRFrench-born American author (1903–1977)
- Anaïs Barbeau-Lavaletteb. 1979CACanadian actress, film director and screenwriter
- Anaïs Mitchellb. 1981USAmerican singer-songwriter
- Anaïs Delvab. 1986FRFrench singer
- Anaïs Demoustierb. 1987FRFrench actress
- Anaïs Bescondb. 1987FRFrench biathlete
- Anaïs Michelb. 1988FRFrench weightlifter
- Anaïs Chevalier-Bouchetb. 1993FRFrench biathlete
- Océane Sercien-Ugolinb. 1997FRnot in their usual nameFrench handball player
- Arlo Parksb. 2000GBnot in their usual nameBritish singer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 33 sources across 24 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 133K | #144 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 2024 | 54 | #159 |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 2020 | 4 | — |
| FR France | Dictionary of French Prénoms (Benoist, 2009) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Anaïs?
- A machine transcription gives /anais/ (IPA) for French.
- What are other forms of the name Anaïs?
- In the etymology graph, Nancy, Anne and Annette are forms of the same name in other languages.
- What does the name Anaïs mean?
- Recorded meaning: Anaïs är en katalansk form av namnet Anna.
- Is Anaïs a male or female name?
- Anaïs is a female 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 Anaïs have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 81 thousand people named Anaïs in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled anais.
- How common is the name Anaïs?
- In the United States, the national register counted 7,875 people named Anaïs in 2020, about 1 in 42 thousand residents.
- How common is Anaïs compared with other names?
- In France, Anaïs is the 107th most common given name of 754,146 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/ana%C3%AFsThe 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, “Anaïs” — the 107th most common given name in France. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.