Given name
Anise
“resembling the herb”
Anise is used as a given name. One English interpretation is “resembling the herb.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One English interpretation is “resembling the herb.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is English.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1893. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Anise through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 1,242
- 0 boys · 1,242 girls
- Most popular year
- 1992
- 23 babies
- 2025
- 9
- #10,176 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −42%
- Cooling
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 9 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 10,176 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,046 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.
Anise’s family of names
Anise has a related form in Anease. Anise has a related form in Aneese. Anise has a related form in Aneise.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 7
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Anise
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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