Anax
given name · Latin script
Meaning: An Ancient Greek tribal chief or leader
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries · latest register: IBGE, 2022
/anaks/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Anax is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- BRBrazil1 in 3.3M(measured from records)
- CLChile≈1 in 7M
- PEPeru≈1 in 12M
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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 26 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.3M (inferred from the name graph)
65 people, 2022
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Brazil
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)An Ancient Greek tribal chief or leader.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world
(measured from records)Anax 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 65 | 1 in 3.3M | 66 | Anax | 26 |
| US United States | ≈10 est. | ≈1 in 32M | — | Anax | 8 |
| PE Peru | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 12M | — | Anax | 6 |
| CL Chile | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 7M | 1 | — | 2 |
| VE Venezuela | ≈1 est. | ≈1 in 22M | — | Anax | 3 |
65 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021). 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)Anax 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 za, great-aunt (paternal grandmother's younger sister)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In ale, mother
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In aoz, child
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Latvian, Dižspārnu spāru apakškārtas dižspāru dzimtas ģints
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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.
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)5 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 66 | #24,348 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 65 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 60 | #55,639 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 22 | #59,846 |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 1943 | 1 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Anax mean, and where does it come from?
- An Ancient Greek tribal chief or leader. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Anax?
- A machine transcription gives /anaks/ (IPA) for Indonesian.
- Is Anax a male or female name?
- Anax 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.
- In which country does Anax have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 65 people named Anax, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled anax.
- Where is Anax most common?
- Anax is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 3.3 million people carrying it.
- How common is the name Anax?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 65 people named Anax in 2022, about 1 in 3.3 million residents.
What do you want to know about Anax?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/anaxThe 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, “Anax”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.