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I really don't think this is derived from Anahita. Who came up with this? It seems wrong. It's an old French name.
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Anaïs is also a French Provençal and Catalan form of Anna meaning grace. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ana%C3%AFs_(given_name)
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Previously this name used to be listed (if not here then elsewhwere) as a Mediaeval Occitan/Provençal variation of Anne, and I would have hazarded, conflated with Agnes as happens with these two names in other languages in the Mediaeval period (as Margaret/Magdalen, Margaret/Mary also become conflated). The evidence of this name existing in Late Mediaeval French records is at odds with the connection with the Goddess Anahita. Strange.
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Anais, or Anaïs (ah-nah-iss), is a female given name derived from the Persian goddess of love, Anaitis.
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It is derived from the Persian goddess of love, Anaitis.
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Anais is also Hebrew for "graceful", Latin for "God's grace", French for Anna, meaning "favor" or "grace".
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