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Anil

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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
Babies named Anil, by year of birthboys
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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

Decadeboys named Anil
1950s9
1960s86
1970s276
1980s334
1990s260
2000s133
2010s55
2020s7

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.

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.