Anil
Anil is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 7 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 70.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 198946 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1959
- 1,160people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,160 boys have been named Anil in the United States since 1959, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1989, with 46 births.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1986, and the 1980s alone account for 29%.
By decade
In 1989, its biggest year
Anil was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 1989 were Michael, Christopher, Matthew, Joshua and David. See all of 1989.
Names that rose and fell with Anil
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Torrepeak 1991
- Jerrodpeak 1983
- Jarrodpeak 1980
- Demetricpeak 1979
- Correypeak 1989
- Cedrickpeak 1978
- Torypeak 1977
- Antionepeak 1979
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.