Anwar
Anwar is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 44 births. Its best rank was 697th, in 1978.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 440.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 1978144 births
- Best rank
- #697in 1978
- Since 1969
- 2,826people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,723 boys have been named Anwar in the United States since 1969, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1978, with 144 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1993, and the 1980s alone account for 27%. It has spent 6 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 103 girls have also been given it, 3.6% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
In 1978, its biggest year
Anwar was the 697th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1978 were Michael, Jason, Christopher, David and James. See all of 1978.
Names that rose and fell with Anwar
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Jaminpeak 1979
- Jedediahpeak 1979
- Anandpeak 1980
- Zebulonpeak 1979
- Panagiotispeak 1983
- Jeremipeak 1979
- Andraepeak 1982
- Jameelpeak 1978
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.