Anas
given name · Latin script
Meaning: friendliness, joy, delight
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈænəs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Anas is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country. In Morocco it is the 51st most common given name.
- JOJordan≈1 in 298(inferred from the name graph)
- MAMorocco≈1 in 542
- SYSyria≈1 in 838
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.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- 6 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 259 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 298 (inferred from the name graph)
≈140,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Jordan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
11 other spellings are counted as the same name:
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)
friendliness, joy, delight. Comp. Anis jus, friendly. Anas ibn Malik: a sahaabi known as ‘the servant and friend of the Messenger of Allah’** and a transmitter of many hadith
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Anas 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK Pakistan | #604 | ≈140,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | listed | Anas | 84 |
| NG Nigeria | #486 | ≈77,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.8K | — | Anas | 63 |
| MA Morocco | #51 | ≈66,000 est. | ≈1 in 542 | — | Anas | 129 |
| ID Indonesia | #848 | ≈37,000 est. | ≈1 in 7.1K | — | Anas | 135 |
| JO Jordan | #123 | ≈36,000 est. | ≈1 in 298 | — | Anas | 109 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | #103 | ≈31,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Anas | 163 |
| SY Syria | #100 | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 838 | — | Anas | 71 |
| ES Spain | — | 7,956 | 1 in 6.3K | 8K | Anas | 69 |
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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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)
Anas is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swedish, Anas är ett arabiskt namn som betyder ’vänlighet’. Anas innehåller samma ordrot som Anis och → Anisa.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In Arabic, friend
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
In Arabic, companionship; sociability
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
In German, männl. Vom. arabischer Herkunft (arab. anäs »Gemeinschaft, Menschheit«).
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
man; friend; intimacy.
as a nameMuslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
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)
- Anas ibn Malikb. 611SAcompanion (Sahabi) of Muhammad
- Anas Aremeyaw Anasb. 1970GHGhanaian investigative journalist
- Anas Rashidb. 1980INIndian actor
- Anas Sarwarb. 1983GBLeader of the Scottish Labour Party
- Anas Khattabb. 1987SYSyrian intelligence official
- Anas Sharbinib. 1987HRCroatian footballer
- Anas Haqqanib. 1993AFAfghan Taliban leader, commander and poet
- Anas Tahirib. 1995BEBelgian footballer
- Anas Al Sharifb. 1996PSPalestinian journalist (1996–2025)
- Anass Zarouryb. 2000BEnot in their usual nameBelgian 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 87 sources across 47 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 64 | #37,728 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 64 | #37,368 |
Reference works 7
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
- Ismlar.com — Uzbek given-name dictionary (meanings, gender, origin)
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 Anas come from?
- friendliness, joy, delight. Comp. Anis jus, friendly. Anas ibn Malik: a sahaabi known as ‘the servant and friend of the Messenger of Allah’** and a transmitter of many hadith Recorded by A Dictionary of Muslim Names.
- Is Anas a male or female name?
- Anas is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- How do you pronounce Anas?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈænəs/ (IPA) for Arabic.
- How common is the name Anas?
- In Spain, the national register counted 7,956 people named Anas, about 1 in 6.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Anas compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Anas is the 604th most common given name of 77,659 given names recorded there.
- What does the name Anas mean?
- Recorded meaning: friendliness, joy, delight.
- What are other forms of the name Anas?
- In the etymology graph, Anass is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Anas have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 144 thousand people named Anas in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled anas.
What do you want to know about Anas?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/anasThe 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, “Anas” — the 604th most common given name in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.