Anise
given name · Latin script
Meaning: An umbelliferous plant (Pimpinella anisum) growing naturally in Egypt, and cultivated in Spain, Malta, etc., for its carminative and aromatic seeds, which are used as a spice
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ænis/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Anise is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Algeria than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 318K(measured from records)
- GPGuadeloupe≈1 in 26K
- DZAlgeria≈1 in 35K
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.
- Algeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 219 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 26K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,200 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Guadeloupe, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
An umbelliferous plant (Pimpinella anisum) growing naturally in Egypt, and cultivated in Spain, Malta, etc., for its carminative and aromatic seeds, which are used as a spice. It has a licorice scent.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Anise 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DZ Algeria | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 35K | — | Anise | 5 |
| US United States | 1,046 | 1 in 318K | 998 | Anise | 219 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 1M | — | Anise | 20 |
| FR France | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 351K | 145 | — | — |
| BR Brazil | 184 | 1 in 1.2M | 188 | — | — |
| CA Canada | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 271K | 1 | Anise | 53 |
| BE Belgium | ≈45 est. | ≈1 in 259K | — | Anise | 5 |
| GP Guadeloupe | ≈17 est. | ≈1 in 26K | 5 | — | — |
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; Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 971 (Guadeloupe). 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)
Anise 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 Spanish, inflection of anisar:
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)
- Anise Boyerb. 1914USAmerican dancer and actress
- Anise Koltzb. 1928LULuxembourgish writer (1928–2023)
- Anise K. Strongb. 1977classicist
- Hélène Hubyb. 1978FRnot in their usual nameFrench official
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 37 sources across 24 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 998 | #12,045 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 188 | #14,656 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 184 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 171 | #26,983 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 170 | #27,704 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 1974 | 145 | #1,066 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 48 | #12,045 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1980 | 36 | — |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 28 | #41,065 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 9 | — |
| CA Canada | Statistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01) | 2007 | 5 | — |
| GP Guadeloupe | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 971 (Guadeloupe) | 1986 | 5 | #92 |
Reference works 3
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- 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 Anise come from?
- An umbelliferous plant (Pimpinella anisum) growing naturally in Egypt, and cultivated in Spain, Malta, etc., for its carminative and aromatic seeds, which are used as a spice. It has a licorice scent. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Anise have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.2 thousand people named Anise in Algeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled anise.
- How do you pronounce Anise?
- A machine transcription gives /ænis/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Anise mean?
- Recorded meaning: An umbelliferous plant (Pimpinella anisum) growing naturally in Egypt, and cultivated in Spain, Malta, etc., for its carminative and aromatic seeds, which are used as a spice.
- Is Anise a male or female name?
- Anise 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.
- How common is the name Anise?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,046 people named Anise in 2020, about 1 in 318 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/aniseThe 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, “Anise”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.