Anaïs is a French and Catalan form of Anna, and so carries the ancient Hebrew meaning of grace and favour.
It is inseparable from the writer Anaïs Nin, lending the name a note of literary sophistication and independence.
Chic, artistic and graceful, Anaïs is Anna reimagined with style.
Anais does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.
In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Anais reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.