Ankur

Last seen for boys in 2016 at #12,185

Peak · boys
1981 · 40 births
Debut · boys
7 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
668
since 1974

Ankur over time

boys

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

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201983peak #1,520, 1981boys
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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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2016#12,1855
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2011#10,8086
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2009#8,9858
2008#8,3249
2007#12,3675
2006#7,9989
2005#10,1516
2004#11,3565
2003#6,71510
2002#7,0559
2001#7,5368
2000#7,4168
1999#5,03513
1998#3,59720
1997#3,87717
1996#3,10723
1995#3,69317
1994#2,76626
1993#4,22714
1992#3,74816
1991#2,82823
1990#2,69524
1989#2,61524
1988#2,14629
1987#2,40023
1986#2,00729
1985#2,07127
1984#2,03626
1983#2,20823
1982#1,67735
1981#1,52040
1980#1,72633
1979#1,83330
1978#2,47318
1977#2,45818
1976#2,60116
1975#3,6599
1974#4,1907
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First appearance
1974

The first year at least five boys were named Ankur! It came in at #4,190, and was given to 7 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 2010, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.

Where Ankur is popular in 1983

No state had 5 or more boys named Ankur in 1983, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Ankur
Momentum · boys
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 2016
Rise & fade · boys
7 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1974
  • Peaked 1981 at #1,520 (40 births)
  • Births halved by 1992, 11 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 44,779
  • Highest: 1 in 44,779 boys born in 1981 were named Ankur (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 379,548 boys born in 2016 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 1980s
  • 43.3% of all boys named Ankur (289) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1970s98#1,833 (1979)#2,869
1980s289#1,520 (1981)#2,041
1990s193#2,695 (1990)#3,557
2000s77#6,715 (2003)#8,790
2010s11#10,808 (2011)#11,497

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.

Ankur in 1983

boys
#2,208
23 births · 1 in 77,938 boys

Top boys' names in 1983

  1. #1Michael68,004
  2. #2Christopher59,324
  3. #3Matthew50,209
  4. #4David39,201
  5. #5Joshua36,687
  6. #6James36,342
  7. #7Jason35,113
  8. #8Daniel34,748
  9. #9John33,154
  10. #10Robert32,745
  11. #2,208Ankur23
More about 1983

boys

1,792,564 boys got a published name in 1983; 1 in 77,938 of them was named Ankur, which outranked 69.9% of the 7,344 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Ankur
  1. #2,140Wilford24
  2. #2,140Yancey24
  3. #2,140Zacharia24
  4. #2,208Ankur23
  5. #2,208Alejandra23
  6. #2,208Ana23
  7. #2,208Anastacio23
  8. #2,272Amer22
  9. #2,272Ames22
  10. #2,272Aren22

Tied with 63 names at #2,208; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1982
Risers
  1. ↑ 2,260Remington#3,108 → #848
  2. ↑ 2,159Trumaine#3,108 → #949
  3. ↑ 1,157Akeem#1,774 → #617
  4. ↑ 738Jacoby#1,654 → #916
  5. ↑ 655Deven#1,622 → #967
Fallers
  1. ↓ 284Marcello#969 → #1,253
  2. ↓ 275Schuyler#845 → #1,120
  3. ↓ 273Jessy#917 → #1,190
  4. ↓ 258Kennith#981 → #1,239
  5. ↓ 220Jarrad#933 → #1,153

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

See the top 100 for 1983 →