Anwar
Last seen for girls in 2020 at #13,453 · #3,128 for boys in 2025, 38 births
Given to boys 96.4% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1978 · 144 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,761since 1969
Anwar over time
Rank among boys' names. Anwar has never cracked the top 600 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #3,128 | 38 | |
| 2024 | — | #2,873 | 44 | |
| 2023 | — | #3,177 | 38 | |
| 2022 | — | #3,003 | 41 | |
| 2021 | — | #4,118 | 25 | |
| 2020 | #13,453 | 6 | #3,344 | 33 |
| 2019 | — | #2,556 | 51 | |
| 2018 | — | #3,240 | 35 | |
| 2017 | — | #3,440 | 32 | |
| 2016 | — | #2,783 | 43 | |
| 2015 | #14,482 | 6 | #2,766 | 43 |
| 2014 | — | #3,297 | 33 | |
| 2013 | #14,582 | 6 | #2,623 | 45 |
| 2012 | #13,483 | 7 | #3,179 | 35 |
| 2011 | — | #2,317 | 55 | |
| 2010 | — | #2,467 | 50 | |
| 2009 | #10,679 | 10 | #2,451 | 52 |
| 2008 | #17,504 | 5 | #2,753 | 44 |
| 2007 | — | #2,811 | 42 | |
| 2006 | #15,152 | 6 | #2,310 | 54 |
| 2005 | — | #1,635 | 83 | |
| 2004 | — | #2,344 | 48 | |
| 2003 | — | #2,349 | 45 | |
| 2002 | — | #2,092 | 51 | |
| 2001 | — | #2,117 | 49 | |
| 2000 | #11,801 | 7 | #2,136 | 47 |
| 1999 | — | #2,199 | 42 | |
| 1998 | — | #2,507 | 34 | |
| 1997 | #9,017 | 9 | #2,164 | 40 |
| 1996 | #9,581 | 8 | #1,933 | 46 |
| 1995 | #11,783 | 6 | #3,020 | 23 |
| 1994 | #9,586 | 8 | #2,502 | 30 |
| 1993 | — | #1,933 | 42 | |
| 1992 | — | #2,214 | 34 | |
| 1991 | — | #1,919 | 40 | |
| 1990 | — | #1,730 | 46 | |
| 1989 | — | #1,678 | 46 | |
| 1988 | — | #1,553 | 47 | |
| 1987 | — | #1,655 | 41 | |
| 1986 | — | #1,645 | 39 | |
| 1985 | #10,677 | 5 | #1,371 | 50 |
| 1984 | — | #951 | 86 | |
| 1983 | #10,275 | 5 | #956 | 85 |
| 1982 | — | #741 | 140 | |
| 1981 | — | #730 | 140 | |
| 1980 | #6,789 | 9 | #1,166 | 61 |
| 1979 | — | #914 | 92 | |
| 1978 | — | #697 | 144 | |
| 1977 | — | #1,121 | 60 | |
| 1976 | — | #1,210 | 51 | |
| 1975 | — | #1,322 | 43 | |
| 1974 | — | #1,471 | 35 | |
| 1973 | — | #2,124 | 19 | |
| 1972 | — | #1,871 | 23 | |
| 1971 | — | #2,464 | 15 | |
| 1970 | — | #4,724 | 5 | |
| 1969 | — | #3,935 | 6 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Anwar! It came in at #3,935, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1969–1970, when fewer than 7 boys a year got the name.
Where Anwar is popular in 1979
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- District of Columbia#256 · 1 in 1,579
- Pennsylvania#329 · 1 in 4,754
- New Jersey#484 · 1 in 6,063
- Illinois#567 · 1 in 7,614
- New York#620 · 1 in 9,251
Best ever in a state: #216 in District of Columbia, 1975.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| District of Columbia | #256 | 5 | 1 in 1,579 |
| Pennsylvania | #329 | 16 | 1 in 4,754 |
| New Jersey | #484 | 7 | 1 in 6,063 |
| Illinois | #567 | 11 | 1 in 7,614 |
| New York | #620 | 12 | 1 in 9,251 |
| Florida | #734 | 5 | 1 in 10,948 |
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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 Anwar
- 255 spots since 2024 (#2,873 → #3,128)
- 216 spots since 2020 (#3,344 → #3,128)
- 362 spots since 2015 (#2,766 → #3,128)
- Biggest jump: 436 spots in 1981 (#1,166 → #730)
- Biggest drop: 420 spots in 1985 (#951 → #1,371)
- Debuted 1969
- Peaked 1978 at #697 (144 births)
- Births halved by 1980, 2 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 6 yrs · run 1981–1984
- Highest: 1 in 11,402 boys born in 1978 were named Anwar (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 44,949 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 26.6% of all boys named Anwar (735) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 6 | #3,935 (1969) | #3,935 |
| 1970s | 487 | #697 (1978) | #1,792 |
| 1980s | 735 | #730 (1981) | #1,245 |
| 1990s | 377 | #1,730 (1990) | #2,212 |
| 2000s | 515 | #1,635 (2005) | #2,300 |
| 2010s | 422 | #2,317 (2011) | #2,867 |
| 2020s | 219 | #2,873 (2024) | #3,274 |
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.
Anwar in 1979
Top boys' names in 1979
More about 1979
boys
1,721,536 boys got a published name in 1979; 1 in 18,712 of them was named Anwar, which outranked 87.1% of the 7,071 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.1% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).