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Anant

#4,715 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

Not, un- + limit, boundary, through अनन्त

Anant has been given to 407 babies in the U.S. since 1973. In 2025 it ranked #4,715 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 22 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 95% boys, 5% girls all-time.

Babies named Anant, 2025

1 in 158,000

Anant over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Anant over time

In 2025, Anant went to 0% girls and 100% boys.

19732025

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Anant: meaning, origin, and history

Not, un- + limit, boundary, through अनन्त

Sanskrit

What Anant means

Anant belongs to the name family reached through Anant → अनन्त. Its meaning is “not, un- + limit, boundary”.

Origin, language, and formation

Anant is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

Anant comes through Sanskrit अनन्त.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include अनन्त.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 385 boys were recorded with the name Anant between 1973 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 22 in 2024; its best national rank was #3,957 in 1975.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #8,113 in 2020 to #4,715 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #8,783 in 2015 to #4,715 in 2025.

In the United States, 22 girls were recorded with the name Anant between 2023 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 13 in 2023; its best national rank was #8,094 in 2023.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Anant?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 158,000
21 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 81,300
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#4,715
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
109,425 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Anant sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 109,425 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Anant. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Anants were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Anant was born before 2010 — so the typical Anant is around 15 today.

Median birth year
2010
About 15 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
25.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
72.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
385
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 25.7% of all recorded uses (99).

Is Anant rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−143
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+3,398
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+4,068
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.63×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
95.5%
Peak was 2024 (22)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
27.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,957
1975

Spellings of Anant

Anant is not the most common spelling — Alan is, with 62.7% against Anant's 0.07%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Anant is used — boys

Across 1910–2025, Anant was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 562,345 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Anant has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Where Anant is used — girls

Across 1910–2025, Anant was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,001,597 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Anant has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Anant around the world

Where Anant ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1998–2025
    #1,897
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2012–2024
    #1,144
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2010–2010
    #754
    in 2010

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Anant by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#4,715
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 3,398
Best rank ever
#3,957
1975
Peak year
2024
22 that year
First recorded
1973
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
385
Count in 2025
21

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#8,094
2023
Peak year
2023
13 that year
First recorded
2023
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
22
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Anant

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

AnaisAnavAnanthAnariAnandAvantAnaelAnayShantAnatoleAnaghAnanAnaniasAnakynAnasVikrantAnaAnandaVedantValiantDurantAdyantAnaniAnakin

Sibling names for Anant

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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