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Anais

Rooted in French, Anais is a girl's name that means "French/Provençal form of Anna". It shows no signs of slowing down, reaching new highs in the 2000s. In the current registry, it is a real rarity. Across the twelve decades this registry covers, it appears in 5 of them.

FrenchFrench/Provençal form of Anna
EtymologyMeaning "grace"
Births by decade
1900s
0
1910s
0
1920s
0
1930s
0
1940s
0
1950s
0
1960s
0
1970s
33
1980s
881
1990s
1,822
2000s
2,279
2010s
1,725
Peaked in the 2000s · 6,740 total U.S. births since 1900