Anicet
given name · French · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Anicet is a given name, with more bearers in France than in any other country. In Burundi it is the 12th most common given name. It appears chiefly in French and French (Côte d’Ivoire), written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: From Greek Aniketos, meaning 'invincible, unconquered'.
- FRFrance1 in 30K◐
- BIBurundi1 in 596
- MQMartinique1 in 2K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈2.3K ●
- Sources
- 179 ●
- 1 in 30K ◐
across 6 countries
7.5K records
Official registry-verified
France
Meaning & origin●
From Greek Aniketos, meaning 'invincible, unconquered'.
Sources 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | — | 2,240 | 5.1K rec. | 1 in 30K | 2.2K | Anicet | 179 |
| CM Cameroon | #184 | 578 | 576 rec. | — | — | Anicet | 26 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | #946 | 422 | 454 rec. | — | — | Anicet | 17 |
| MQ Martinique | #423 | 325 | 0 rec. | — | 5 | Anicet | 1 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | #216 | 321 | 302 rec. | — | 4 | Anicet | 16 |
| GP Guadeloupe | #438 | 300 | 13 rec. | — | 5 | Anicet | 9 |
| US United States | — | 199 | 313 rec. | — | listed | Anicet | 53 |
| BE Belgium | — | 114 | 113 rec. | — | 2 | Anicet | 15 |
| GA Gabon | #362 | 94 | 24 rec. | — | 49 | Anicet | 15 |
| BJ Benin | #129 | 82 | 62 rec. | — | — | Anicet | 17 |
| TZ Tanzania | — | 78 | 115 rec. | — | — | Anicet | 11 |
| MG Madagascar | #463 | 74 | 72 rec. | — | 3 | Anicet | 13 |
Roughly 2.2K people in France bear this name (about 1 in 30K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- French14K78%
- French (Côte d’Ivoire)1.6K9%
- English5683%
- Swahili3452%
- Spanish2782%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| French | 13,927 | 78% |
| French (Côte d’Ivoire) | 1,564 | 9% |
| English | 568 | 3% |
| Swahili | 345 | 2% |
| Spanish | 278 | 2% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Anicet is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, Origine grecque, signifie « invincible ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1900 | 5 |
| 1906 | 5 |
| 1907 | 5 |
| 1909 | 5 |
| 1912 | 5 |
| 1913 | 5 |
| 1914 | 5 |
| 1915 | 5 |
| 1916 | 5 |
| 1917 | 5 |
| 1918 | 5 |
| 1919 | 5 |
| 1921 | 5 |
| 1922 | 5 |
| 1923 | 5 |
| 1924 | 10 |
| 1925 | 5 |
| 1926 | 5 |
| 1928 | 10 |
| 1929 | 5 |
| 1930 | 5 |
| 1931 | 5 |
| 1932 | 5 |
| 1934 | 5 |
| 1935 | 5 |
| 1936 | 10 |
| 1937 | 5 |
| 1939 | 10 |
| 1940 | 5 |
| 1941 | 5 |
| 1942 | 5 |
| 1943 | 5 |
| 1944 | 10 |
| 1945 | 5 |
| 1946 | 5 |
| 1947 | 5 |
| 1948 | 10 |
| 1949 | 5 |
| 1950 | 5 |
| 1951 | 5 |
| 1952 | 5 |
| 1954 | 5 |
| 1956 | 5 |
| 1957 | 5 |
| 1959 | 5 |
| 1962 | 5 |
| 1963 | 5 |
| 1964 | 5 |
| 1965 | 5 |
| 1970 | 5 |
| 1971 | 5 |
MQ INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 972 (Martinique) — 51 years between 1900–1971. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Anicety Renierb. 1804PLnot in their usual namePolish physician (1804–1877)
- Auguste Anicet-Bourgeoisb. 1806FRFrench dramatist
- Anicet Koplińskib. 1875PLPolish Roman Catholic Capuchin friar, priest, and martyr
- Anicet Kashamurab. 1928CDCongolese politician (1928–2004)
- Anicet Le Porsb. 1931FRFrench politician
- Anicet Utsetb. 1932ESSpanish road bicycle racer
- Anicet-Georges Dologuéléb. 1957CFCentral African politician
- Anicet Lavodramab. 1963CFCentral African basketball player
- Anicet Adjamossib. 1984BJBeninese footballer
- Anicet Andrianantenainab. 1990MGMalagasy footballer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 33 sources across 23 countries.
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 161 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Anicet?
- We estimate roughly 2.3 thousand people bear Anicet (counting its spellings and scripts) across 6 countries in our records.
- In which country does Anicet have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 2.2 thousand people bear Anicet in France, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled anicet.
- How common is Anicet compared with other names?
- In Burundi, Anicet is the 12th most common given name of 77 given names recorded there.
- Is Anicet a male or female name?
- Anicet is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Anicet mean?
- Recorded meaning: From Greek Aniketos, meaning 'invincible, unconquered'.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Anicet” — the 12th most common given name in Burundi. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.