Anil
Last seen for boys in 2024 at #9,894
- Peak · boys
- 1974 · 39 births
- Debut · boys
- 9 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,160since 1959
Anil over time
Rank among boys' names. Anil has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | |
| 2024 | #9,894 | 7 |
| 2023 | — | |
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| 2020 | — | |
| 2019 | #8,215 | 9 |
| 2018 | #10,760 | 6 |
| 2017 | #12,246 | 5 |
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| 2014 | #12,108 | 5 |
| 2013 | #9,655 | 7 |
| 2012 | #10,770 | 6 |
| 2011 | #9,600 | 7 |
| 2010 | #7,591 | 10 |
| 2009 | #7,692 | 10 |
| 2008 | #6,763 | 12 |
| 2007 | #10,921 | 6 |
| 2006 | #7,427 | 10 |
| 2005 | #7,096 | 10 |
| 2004 | #7,536 | 9 |
| 2003 | #5,877 | 12 |
| 2002 | #4,703 | 16 |
| 2001 | #3,974 | 20 |
| 2000 | #3,075 | 28 |
| 1999 | #3,704 | 20 |
| 1998 | #3,017 | 26 |
| 1997 | #2,823 | 27 |
| 1996 | #3,549 | 19 |
| 1995 | #3,100 | 22 |
| 1994 | #3,109 | 22 |
| 1993 | #2,577 | 28 |
| 1992 | #2,747 | 25 |
| 1991 | #2,143 | 34 |
| 1990 | #2,012 | 37 |
| 1989 | #1,678 | 46 |
| 1988 | #2,367 | 25 |
| 1987 | #1,655 | 41 |
| 1986 | #2,290 | 24 |
| 1985 | #1,866 | 31 |
| 1984 | #1,656 | 35 |
| 1983 | #1,594 | 37 |
| 1982 | #1,850 | 30 |
| 1981 | #1,766 | 32 |
| 1980 | #1,726 | 33 |
| 1979 | #1,435 | 42 |
| 1978 | #1,652 | 33 |
| 1977 | #1,858 | 27 |
| 1976 | #1,873 | 26 |
| 1975 | #1,407 | 39 |
| 1974 | #1,370 | 39 |
| 1973 | #1,982 | 21 |
| 1972 | #2,158 | 18 |
| 1971 | #2,279 | 17 |
| 1970 | #2,509 | 14 |
| 1969 | #2,130 | 16 |
| 1968 | #2,030 | 16 |
| 1967 | #1,974 | 16 |
| 1966 | #3,537 | 6 |
| 1965 | #2,617 | 10 |
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| 1963 | #2,858 | 9 |
| 1962 | #3,640 | 6 |
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| 1960 | #3,337 | 7 |
| 1959 | #2,821 | 9 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Anil! It came in at #2,821, and was given to 9 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1961, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Anil is popular in 1997
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New York#834 · 1 in 9,575
- California#2,084 · 1 in 49,117
Best ever in a state: #469 in Indiana, 1967.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| New York | #834 | 12 | 1 in 9,575 |
| California | #2,084 | 5 | 1 in 49,117 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Anil
- Not published in 2025; last seen 2024
- Debuted 1959
- Peaked 1974 at #1,370 (39 births)
- Births halved by 1996, 22 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 40,035 boys born in 1975 were named Anil (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 246,127 boys born in 2024 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,370 in 1974, was only 1 in 40,316 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 28.8% of all boys named Anil (334) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 9 | #2,821 (1959) | #2,821 |
| 1960s | 86 | #1,974 (1967) | #2,765 |
| 1970s | 276 | #1,370 (1974) | #1,852 |
| 1980s | 334 | #1,594 (1983) | #1,845 |
| 1990s | 260 | #2,012 (1990) | #2,878 |
| 2000s | 133 | #3,075 (2000) | #6,506 |
| 2010s | 55 | #7,591 (2010) | #10,118 |
| 2020s | 7 | #9,894 (2024) | #9,894 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Anil in 1997
Top boys' names in 1997
More about 1997
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1,885,140 boys got a published name in 1997; 1 in 69,820 of them was named Anil, which outranked 73.9% of the 10,814 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 15.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,750Yobani28
- #2,750Yonathan28
- #2,750Zebadiah28
- #2,823Anil27
- #2,823Abe27
- #2,823Adem27
- #2,823Akira27
- #2,903Aaren26
- #2,903Adham26
- #2,903Aedan26
Tied with 79 names at #2,823; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.