Anish

#6,446 for boys in 2025, 13 births

Peak · boys
2010 · 184 births
Debut · boys
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
3,109
since 1970

Anish over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Anish has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201980peak #1,047, 2010boys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yearboys
rankbirths
2025#6,44613
2024#4,32124
2023#4,22025
2022#4,08926
2021#3,29735
2020#2,84642
2019#2,42155
2018#3,37333
2017#2,27058
2016#1,84581
2015#1,82681
2014#1,514106
2013#1,315131
2012#1,336127
2011#1,235141
2010#1,047184
2009#1,051180
2008#1,389122
2007#1,287135
2006#1,132151
2005#1,150139
2004#1,061151
2003#1,159129
2002#1,085138
2001#1,208111
2000#1,38291
1999#1,71061
1998#2,19941
1997#2,22838
1996#2,74727
1995#2,50030
1994#2,34733
1993#2,45530
1992#3,22020
1991#2,46928
1990#2,69524
1989#2,41627
1988#1,98932
1987#2,46822
1986#2,60120
1985#3,21614
1984#2,15924
1983#2,91215
1982#2,97215
1981#3,60111
1980#3,43012
1979#2,56818
1978#3,8579
1977#5,1236
1976#4,4187
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1974#3,31810
1973#3,6948
1972#3,6228
1971#4,9075
1970#4,7245
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First appearance
1970

The first year at least five boys were named Anish! It came in at #4,724, and was given to 5 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1975, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.

Where Anish is popular in 1980

No state had 5 or more boys named Anish in 1980, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Anish
Momentum · boys
Falling
  • 2,125 spots since 2024 (#4,321 → #6,446)
  • 3,600 spots since 2020 (#2,846 → #6,446)
  • 4,620 spots since 2015 (#1,826 → #6,446)
Rise & fade · boys
40 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1970
  • Peaked 2010 at #1,047 (184 births)
  • Births halved by 2015, 5 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 10,428
  • Highest: 1 in 10,428 boys born in 2010 were named Anish (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 131,390 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 2000s
  • 43.3% of all boys named Anish (1,347) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1970s76#2,568 (1979)#4,026
1980s192#1,989 (1988)#2,776
1990s332#1,710 (1999)#2,457
2000s1,347#1,051 (2009)#1,190
2010s997#1,047 (2010)#1,818
2020s165#2,846 (2020)#4,203

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.

Anish in 1980

boys
#3,430
12 births · 1 in 148,663 boys

Top boys' names in 1980

  1. #1Michael68,683
  2. #2Christopher49,079
  3. #3Jason48,164
  4. #4David41,891
  5. #5James39,312
  6. #6Matthew37,834
  7. #7Joshua36,052
  8. #8John35,274
  9. #9Robert34,266
  10. #10Joseph30,185
  11. #3,430Anish12
More about 1980

boys

1,783,951 boys got a published name in 1980; 1 in 148,663 of them was named Anish, which outranked 53.0% of the 7,293 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.6% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Anish
  1. #3,256Wayde13
  2. #3,256Weylin13
  3. #3,256Yan13
  4. #3,430Anish12
  5. #3,430Adama12
  6. #3,430Almanzo12
  7. #3,430Anthonio12
  8. #3,615Abigail11
  9. #3,615Abu11
  10. #3,615Adel11

Tied with 184 names at #3,430; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1979
Risers
  1. ↑ 381Gideon#1,370 → #989
  2. ↑ 296Bo#864 → #568
  3. ↑ 270Anson#1,137 → #867
  4. ↑ 266Dustan#1,255 → #989
  5. ↑ 255Dusty#614 → #359
Fallers
  1. ↓ 366Harris#991 → #1,357
  2. ↓ 362Tracey#842 → #1,204
  3. ↓ 331Jevon#780 → #1,111
  4. ↓ 321Kennith#937 → #1,258
  5. ↓ 267Levar#644 → #911

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1980 →