Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Anahis isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1990. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Anahis through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 244
- 0 boys · 244 girls
- Most popular year
- 2006
- 22 babies
- 2025
- 6
- #13,323 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +24%
- Rising
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 6 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 13,323 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for girls was 22 in 2006. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 291 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Anahis’s family of names
In French usage, Anahis has a related form in Anaïs.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
People named Anahis
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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