Anish
#6,446 for boys in 2025, 13 births
- Peak · boys
- 2010 · 184 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 3,109since 1970
Anish over time
Rank among boys' names. Anish 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 | #6,446 | 13 |
| 2024 | #4,321 | 24 |
| 2023 | #4,220 | 25 |
| 2022 | #4,089 | 26 |
| 2021 | #3,297 | 35 |
| 2020 | #2,846 | 42 |
| 2019 | #2,421 | 55 |
| 2018 | #3,373 | 33 |
| 2017 | #2,270 | 58 |
| 2016 | #1,845 | 81 |
| 2015 | #1,826 | 81 |
| 2014 | #1,514 | 106 |
| 2013 | #1,315 | 131 |
| 2012 | #1,336 | 127 |
| 2011 | #1,235 | 141 |
| 2010 | #1,047 | 184 |
| 2009 | #1,051 | 180 |
| 2008 | #1,389 | 122 |
| 2007 | #1,287 | 135 |
| 2006 | #1,132 | 151 |
| 2005 | #1,150 | 139 |
| 2004 | #1,061 | 151 |
| 2003 | #1,159 | 129 |
| 2002 | #1,085 | 138 |
| 2001 | #1,208 | 111 |
| 2000 | #1,382 | 91 |
| 1999 | #1,710 | 61 |
| 1998 | #2,199 | 41 |
| 1997 | #2,228 | 38 |
| 1996 | #2,747 | 27 |
| 1995 | #2,500 | 30 |
| 1994 | #2,347 | 33 |
| 1993 | #2,455 | 30 |
| 1992 | #3,220 | 20 |
| 1991 | #2,469 | 28 |
| 1990 | #2,695 | 24 |
| 1989 | #2,416 | 27 |
| 1988 | #1,989 | 32 |
| 1987 | #2,468 | 22 |
| 1986 | #2,601 | 20 |
| 1985 | #3,216 | 14 |
| 1984 | #2,159 | 24 |
| 1983 | #2,912 | 15 |
| 1982 | #2,972 | 15 |
| 1981 | #3,601 | 11 |
| 1980 | #3,430 | 12 |
| 1979 | #2,568 | 18 |
| 1978 | #3,857 | 9 |
| 1977 | #5,123 | 6 |
| 1976 | #4,418 | 7 |
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| 1974 | #3,318 | 10 |
| 1973 | #3,694 | 8 |
| 1972 | #3,622 | 8 |
| 1971 | #4,907 | 5 |
| 1970 | #4,724 | 5 |
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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 2016
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New Jersey#719 · 1 in 5,191
- Illinois#974 · 1 in 8,021
- Ohio#1,200 · 1 in 11,864
- California#1,561 · 1 in 20,335
- Texas#1,631 · 1 in 20,580
Best ever in a state: #286 in New Jersey, 2009.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| New Jersey | #719 | 8 | 1 in 5,191 |
| Illinois | #974 | 8 | 1 in 8,021 |
| Ohio | #1,200 | 5 | 1 in 11,864 |
| California | #1,561 | 11 | 1 in 20,335 |
| Texas | #1,631 | 9 | 1 in 20,580 |
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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 Anish
- 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)
- Debuted 1970
- Peaked 2010 at #1,047 (184 births)
- Births halved by 2015, 5 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- 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%)
- 43.3% of all boys named Anish (1,347) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 76 | #2,568 (1979) | #4,026 |
| 1980s | 192 | #1,989 (1988) | #2,776 |
| 1990s | 332 | #1,710 (1999) | #2,457 |
| 2000s | 1,347 | #1,051 (2009) | #1,190 |
| 2010s | 997 | #1,047 (2010) | #1,818 |
| 2020s | 165 | #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 2016
Top boys' names in 2016
More about 2016
boys
1,897,738 boys got a published name in 2016; 1 in 23,429 of them was named Anish, which outranked 87.0% of the 14,207 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,828Shiv82
- #1,828Townes82
- #1,828Tyce82
- #1,845Anish81
- #1,845Aahil81
- #1,845Azaiah81
- #1,845Bradyn81
- #1,863Aj80
- #1,863Brant80
- #1,863Eastyn80
Tied with 17 names at #1,845; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.