Anai
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Anai is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- PEPeru≈1 in 62K(inferred from the name graph)
- CLChile≈1 in 103K
- USUnited States1 in 134K
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)
- Sources
- 157 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 19K (inferred from the name graph)
2,476 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Bolivia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Anai 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 | — | 2,476 | 1 in 134K | 2.4K | Anai | 157 |
| BR Brazil | — | 1,231 | 1 in 172K | 1.2K | Anai | 42 |
| BO Bolivia | — | ≈620 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Anai | 24 |
| PE Peru | — | ≈520 est. | ≈1 in 62K | — | Anai | 35 |
| GT Guatemala | #582 | ≈370 est. | ≈1 in 46K | — | Anai | 17 |
| CL Chile | — | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 103K | 1 | Anai | 36 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 32 | 1 in 106K | 32 | — | 8 |
2,476 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)
Anai 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 sga, wealth, riches
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Kazuhiro Anaib. 1959JPJapanese banker, victim of September 11 attacks, serving as former branch deputy manager of New York Branch, Nishi-Nippon Bank
- Takamasa Anaib. 1984JPJapanese Judoka
- Yuki Anaib. 1988JPbadminton player
- Chihiro Anaib. 1996JPJapanese singer
- Yōsuke AnaiJapanese animator and anime director
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)
Attested in 34 sources across 20 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2.4K | #6,480 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 1.2K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.2K | #7,192 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2020 | 1.1K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 1.1K | #8,844 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 1.1K | #4,409 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2010 | 932 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2000 | 806 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1990 | 712 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 83 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 51 | #6,480 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 32 | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname 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
- Is Anai a male or female name?
- Anai 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 Anai have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 2.5 thousand people named Anai, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled anai.
- How common is the name Anai?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,476 people named Anai in 2020, about 1 in 134 thousand residents.
- How common is Anai compared with other names?
- In Guatemala, Anai is the 582nd most common given name of 22,774 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Anai?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/anaiThe 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, “Anai” — the 582nd most common given name in Guatemala. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.