Anas

What Anas means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Anas yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #312 vs #1,290 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Anas?

US: Rising: up from #1599 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #429 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2025, when 151 boys got the name (#1290 that year). First in the US records in 1978.

How common

• About 1 in 11,312 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 1,902 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 6,547 baby boys in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in NY (0.54 per 1,000 boys), WI (0.34 per 1,000 boys), MN (0.29 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Anas is #1290 in the US and #312 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Anas were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Enos38 US
• Enes10 US · 21 E&W
• Anais11 US
• Anis8 US · 3 E&W
• Enis0 US · 8 E&W
• Anzo5 US
• Enys0 US · 5 E&W
• Anes0 US · 4 E&W

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Anas

Boys

• Jett#169Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #169 vs #452 in 2025
• Legend#193Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #391 in 2015, #193 in 2025
• Kai#93“warrior”^*
• Mateo#8Same root as Matthew, meaning “gift of the Lord”^*
• Luca#14Form of Lucy, meaning “light”^*
• Matteo#146Italian, from Latin Matthaeus, meaning “gift of the Lord”^*

For a sister

• Haven#190Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #190 vs #1,512 in 2025
• Ellie#24Editor’s note Up from #48 in 2015 to #24 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 260 US girls in the 2025 records
• Elaina#267Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #267 vs #951 in 2025
• Esme#298Diminutive of Esmeralda, meaning “emerald”^*
• Alani#161Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #529 in 2015, #161 in 2025
• Naomi#47“my pleasantness”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Anas’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.