Anis
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Indonesian: anise (Pimpinella anisum)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/anajs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Anis is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bangladesh than in any other country. In Tunisia it is the 15th most common given name.
- TNTunisia≈1 in 400(inferred from the name graph)
- DZAlgeria≈1 in 734
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 1.2K
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.
- Bangladesh (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 244 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 400 (inferred from the name graph)
≈62,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Tunisia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
short form; An(n)ieser 'anise merchant' from Agnes
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
How Anis is read(measured from records)
Anis is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Hindi29%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Anis in Hindi.
- Indonesian24%
anise (Pimpinella anisum)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- French15%
anise (plant and spice)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English6.5%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Anis in English.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Anis 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BD Bangladesh | #395 | ≈62,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.6K | — | Anis | 67 |
| DZ Algeria | #44 | ≈59,000 est. | ≈1 in 734 | — | Anis | 72 |
| TN Tunisia | #15 | ≈29,000 est. | ≈1 in 400 | 2.3K | Anis | 85 |
| MY Malaysia | #450 | ≈27,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | — | Anis | 67 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Anis | 65 |
| FR France | — | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.8K | 11K | Anis | 6 |
| US United States | — | 1,422 | 1 in 234K | 1.1K | Anis | 244 |
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; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); INS Tunisia — Les prénoms des nouveau-nés les plus populaires (2022). 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)
Anis is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, short form; An(n)ieser 'anise merchant' from Agnes
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
companion; friend; lover.
as a nameMuslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
Amichevole / Pura
as a nameIl grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
Friendly, gentle,
as a nameDictionary of Islamic Names
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)
- Anis Mansourb. 1924EGEgyptian writer (1924–2011)
- Anis Hassan Yahyab. 1934YEYemeni socialist thinker and politician (1934–2026)
- Bushidob. 1978DEnot in their usual nameGerman rapper
- Anis Lounifib. 1978TNTunisian judoka
- Anis Boussaïdib. 1981TNTunisian association football player
- Anis Ayarib. 1982TNTunisian association football player
- Anice Badrib. 1990FRnot in their usual nameTunisian and French association football player
- Anis Amrib. 1992TNTunisian islamist terrorist
- Anis Ben Slimaneb. 2001TNTunisian and Danish association football player
- Anis Mehmetib. 2001ALAlbanian-English footballer
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 97 sources across 50 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 11K | #309 |
| TN Tunisia | INS Tunisia — Les prénoms des nouveau-nés les plus populaires (2022) | 1980 | 2.3K | #5 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.1K | #9,683 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 318 | #9,683 |
Reference works 10
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Lietuvių kalbos institutas — Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Lithuanian surname dictionary)
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- Ismlar.com — Uzbek given-name dictionary (meanings, gender, origin)
- Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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
- Where does the name Anis come from?
- short form; An(n)ieser 'anise merchant' from Agnes Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- How do you pronounce Anis?
- A machine transcription gives /anajs/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- What does the name Anis mean?
- In Indonesian, anise (Pimpinella anisum)
- Is Anis a male or female name?
- Anis 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.
- What are other forms of the name Anis?
- In the etymology graph, Enes and Enis are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Anis have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 62 thousand people named Anis in Bangladesh, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled anis.
- How common is the name Anis?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,422 people named Anis in 2020, about 1 in 234 thousand residents.
- How common is Anis compared with other names?
- In Bangladesh, Anis is the 395th most common given name of 29,323 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/anisThe 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, “Anis” — the 395th most common given name in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.