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Anais vs Anamarie

American parents have registered 9,331 Anaises since 1880, against 1,377 Anamaries. Anais is still ahead, with 310 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Anais against Anamarie, 1880 to 2025 0 100 200 300 400 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Anais Anamarie

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 69 years in which either name was published, Anais for 46 years and Anamarie for 23 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Anais Anamarie
Total US births 9,3311,377
Most in one year 35346
Babies in 2025 31011
Estimated living today 9,2001,300
Median age today 1724
Peak year 20212015
Best rank 825th girls3,429th girls
Rank in 2025 892nd8,860th
First recorded 19721948
Girls / boys 9,213 / 1181,377 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Anamaries alive today are over 24; half the Anaises are over 17. That is 7 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Anais and Anamarie.