Save Gender Feminine Usage Greek Mythology (Gallicized), Theatre Meaning & History French form of Nais. Naïs is the main character of Jean-Philippe Rameau's 1749 Naïs: Opéra pour La Paix, a play about the god Neptune falling in love with the titular nymph.
Save Gender Feminine Usage Provençal, Occitan, French (Modern), French (Belgian, Modern, Rare), Literature, Popular Culture Meaning & History Short form of Anaïs. It is also the name of a 1945 Raymond Leboursier film based on Émile Zola's Naïs Micoulin.