Aniš
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Aniš 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”). Aniš is also written Анис in Cyrillic.
- SISlovenia1 in 13K(measured from records)
- ALAlbania1 in 24K
- SESweden1 in 30K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Aniš itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 114 (measured from records)
- 1 in 13K (inferred from the name graph)
4,400 named Anish, 2020
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Slovenia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Aniš in other scripts: Cyrillic
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Anis in US United States, ES Spain, SI Slovenia and 1 more and Анис in RU Russia, TJ Tajikistan, UZ Uzbekistan.
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 27 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Aniš 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 | — | 4,400as Anish | 1 in 76K | 4.5K | Anis | 18 |
| RU Russia | — | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 75K | register #536 | Анис | 114 |
| BR Brazil | — | 1,445as Anice | 1 in 147K | 1.8K | — | — |
| UZ Uzbekistan | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 25K | — | Анис | 7 |
| TJ Tajikistan | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 8.1K | listed | Анис | 8 |
| ES Spain | — | 598 | 1 in 84K | 598 | Anis | 5 |
| MK North Macedonia | — | 260as Анис | 1 in 8.2K | 260 | — | 2 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 167 | 1 in 13K | 174 | Anis | 4 |
| AL Albania | — | 129 | 1 in 24K | 124 | — | — |
| BA Bosnia & Herzegovina | #517 | — | — | — | Anis | 13 |
4,400 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020, counting the spelling anish. 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); State Statistical Office — living population names; SURS — resident population given names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Anish Kapoorb. 1954GBnot in their usual nameBritish-Indian artist (born 1954)
- Anish Ghoshb. 1979INnot in their usual nameIndian mathematician
- Anish Girib. 1994RUnot in their usual nameDutch chess player
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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Aniš 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 Aniš a male or female name?
- Aniš 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.
- Which countries have the most people named Aniš?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 4.4 thousand people named Anish, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Russia, Brazil, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Aniš most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Aniš 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 Aniš?
- In Spain, the national register counted 598 people named Aniš, about 1 in 84 thousand residents.
- How common is Aniš compared with other names?
- In Bosnia & Herzegovina, Aniš is the 517th most common given name of 4,559 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/ani%C5%A1The 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, “Aniš” — ranked 4310th in the United States (Census Bureau). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.