Given name & surname · also Galician

Anes

Anes is a surname from Galician, ultimately from Portuguese. It is used in English and Welsh.

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Anes comes from Galician, and ultimately from Portuguese.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

From Portuguese Anes.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

The story

Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1999. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.

From dated birth records

Anes through the years

Babies since 1880
120
120 boys · 0 girls
Most popular year
2009
14 babies
2025
0
Outside the ranked list
2021–25 vs 2016–20
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Too few births to compare
0246820002025Highest share 20090.0
Anes in U.S. Social Security birth records, 1999–2025, per million boys born. Years with fewer than five births for a sex are not published and appear as zero. Use the arrow keys to step through years.

By the numbers

The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 7 in 2021. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 14 in 2009. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 357 as a first name in 2020; 586 as a surname in 2020.

From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.

Anes’s family of names

In Welsh usage, Anes has a related form in ANEST. In Welsh usage, Anes has a related form in ANEST. In Welsh usage, Anes has a related form in ANNES.

Walk Anes’s family in the name graph

AnesAnnesAnestAnnestNestAnessEnesAnisAne

Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.

Hover or tab through the constellation to see how each name is related. Bigger dots are names more people in the U.S. share.

Nicknames & forms 5

Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.

Across languages 3

Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.

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Sibling ideas

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