Anuj
Last seen for boys in 2022 at #12,330
- Peak · boys
- 1979 · 22 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 937since 1969
Anuj over time
Rank among boys' names. Anuj has never cracked the top 2,000 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 | — | |
| 2023 | — | |
| 2022 | #12,330 | 5 |
| 2021 | #12,146 | 5 |
| 2020 | #8,067 | 9 |
| 2019 | #5,555 | 16 |
| 2018 | #8,819 | 8 |
| 2017 | #5,297 | 17 |
| 2016 | #4,943 | 19 |
| 2015 | #4,711 | 20 |
| 2014 | #5,733 | 15 |
| 2013 | #4,804 | 19 |
| 2012 | #5,720 | 15 |
| 2011 | #4,822 | 19 |
| 2010 | #5,047 | 18 |
| 2009 | #4,035 | 25 |
| 2008 | #2,788 | 43 |
| 2007 | #4,808 | 19 |
| 2006 | #2,578 | 46 |
| 2005 | #3,091 | 33 |
| 2004 | #2,887 | 35 |
| 2003 | #5,035 | 15 |
| 2002 | #2,817 | 33 |
| 2001 | #3,228 | 27 |
| 2000 | #2,621 | 35 |
| 1999 | #3,103 | 26 |
| 1998 | #3,486 | 21 |
| 1997 | #2,981 | 25 |
| 1996 | #4,185 | 15 |
| 1995 | #3,854 | 16 |
| 1994 | #4,290 | 14 |
| 1993 | #4,020 | 15 |
| 1992 | #2,834 | 24 |
| 1991 | #3,105 | 20 |
| 1990 | #3,166 | 19 |
| 1989 | #3,446 | 16 |
| 1988 | #3,705 | 13 |
| 1987 | #2,942 | 17 |
| 1986 | #3,268 | 14 |
| 1985 | #2,598 | 19 |
| 1984 | #2,824 | 16 |
| 1983 | #2,408 | 20 |
| 1982 | #2,269 | 22 |
| 1981 | #2,569 | 18 |
| 1980 | #3,098 | 14 |
| 1979 | #2,236 | 22 |
| 1978 | #3,857 | 9 |
| 1977 | #3,606 | 10 |
| 1976 | #4,012 | 8 |
| 1975 | #4,309 | 7 |
| 1974 | #5,227 | 5 |
| 1973 | #5,101 | 5 |
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| 1971 | #4,375 | 6 |
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| 1969 | #4,404 | 5 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Anuj! It came in at #4,404, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1969–1970, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Anuj is popular in 2005
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
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- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- California#1,632 · 1 in 28,241
Best ever in a state: #506 in New Jersey, 2002.
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| California | #1,632 | 9 | 1 in 28,241 |
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See more about Anuj
- Not published in 2025; last seen 2022
- Debuted 1969
- Peaked 1979 at #2,236 (22 births)
- Births halved by 2018, 39 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 44,680 boys born in 2006 were named Anuj (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 349,202 boys born in 2022 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #2,236 in 1979, was only 1 in 78,252 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 33.2% of all boys named Anuj (311) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 5 | #4,404 (1969) | #4,404 |
| 1970s | 72 | #2,236 (1979) | #4,090 |
| 1980s | 169 | #2,269 (1982) | #2,913 |
| 1990s | 195 | #2,834 (1992) | #3,502 |
| 2000s | 311 | #2,578 (2006) | #3,389 |
| 2010s | 166 | #4,711 (2015) | #5,545 |
| 2020s | 19 | #8,067 (2020) | #10,848 |
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.
Anuj in 2005
Top boys' names in 2005
More about 2005
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1,997,305 boys got a published name in 2005; 1 in 60,524 of them was named Anuj, which outranked 76.9% of the 13,370 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 10.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #3,022Yariel34
- #3,022Yitzchak34
- #3,022Zavien34
- #3,091Anuj33
- #3,091Aaden33
- #3,091Aakash33
- #3,091Amogh33
- #3,172Amadeus32
- #3,172Andrez32
- #3,172Anthonie32
Tied with 80 names at #3,091; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.