Anirudh
#3,583 for boys in 2025, 31 births
- Peak · boys
- 2003 · 71 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,551since 1991
Anirudh over time
Rank among boys' names. Anirudh 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 | #3,583 | 31 |
| 2024 | #4,701 | 21 |
| 2023 | #3,293 | 36 |
| 2022 | #3,533 | 32 |
| 2021 | #3,912 | 27 |
| 2020 | #3,811 | 27 |
| 2019 | #3,496 | 32 |
| 2018 | #3,055 | 38 |
| 2017 | #2,755 | 44 |
| 2016 | #2,518 | 50 |
| 2015 | #2,086 | 67 |
| 2014 | #2,138 | 64 |
| 2013 | #2,113 | 63 |
| 2012 | #1,942 | 73 |
| 2011 | #2,173 | 60 |
| 2010 | #1,898 | 75 |
| 2009 | #1,839 | 80 |
| 2008 | #1,916 | 75 |
| 2007 | #1,972 | 71 |
| 2006 | #1,919 | 70 |
| 2005 | #1,813 | 71 |
| 2004 | #1,974 | 61 |
| 2003 | #1,717 | 71 |
| 2002 | #1,869 | 60 |
| 2001 | #1,871 | 59 |
| 2000 | #2,425 | 39 |
| 1999 | #2,560 | 34 |
| 1998 | #2,235 | 40 |
| 1997 | #4,246 | 15 |
| 1996 | #3,549 | 19 |
| 1995 | #4,791 | 12 |
| 1994 | #3,911 | 16 |
| 1993 | #8,700 | 5 |
| 1992 | #6,670 | 7 |
| 1991 | #7,271 | 6 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Anirudh! It came in at #7,271, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1991–1993, when fewer than 8 boys a year got the name.
Where Anirudh is popular in 1998
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Massachusetts#554 · 1 in 7,341
- New Jersey#646 · 1 in 6,951
- California#1,384 · 1 in 27,036
Best ever in a state: #554 in Massachusetts, 1998.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Massachusetts | #554 | 5 | 1 in 7,341 |
| New Jersey | #646 | 7 | 1 in 6,951 |
| California | #1,384 | 9 | 1 in 27,036 |
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See more about Anirudh
- 1,118 spots since 2024 (#4,701 → #3,583)
- 228 spots since 2020 (#3,811 → #3,583)
- 1,497 spots since 2015 (#2,086 → #3,583)
- Debuted 1991
- Peaked 2003 at #1,717 (71 births)
- Births halved by 2019, 16 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 24,795 boys born in 2009 were named Anirudh (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 55,099 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,717 in 2003, was only 1 in 27,822 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 42.4% of all boys named Anirudh (657) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 154 | #2,235 (1998) | #4,881 |
| 2000s | 657 | #1,717 (2003) | #1,932 |
| 2010s | 566 | #1,898 (2010) | #2,417 |
| 2020s | 174 | #3,293 (2023) | #3,806 |
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.
Anirudh in 1998
Top boys' names in 1998
More about 1998
boys
1,911,366 boys got a published name in 1998; 1 in 47,784 of them was named Anirudh, which outranked 80.2% of the 11,311 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 14.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,199Wilbur41
- #2,199Willy41
- #2,199Zacharias41
- #2,235Anirudh40
- #2,235Akhil40
- #2,235Asad40
- #2,235Burke40
- #2,274Abdallah39
- #2,274Akil39
- #2,274Andrei39
Tied with 38 names at #2,235; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.