Anar

Boys' name

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Anar has been given to 59 babies in the U.S. since 2005. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2007, with 12 recorded.

Babies named Anar, 2023

1 in 663,000

Anar over time, 1880–2025

Boys

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Anar: meaning, origin, and history

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Persian

What Anar means

Anar has more than one naming route in the cited origin entries: distinct naming traditions.

The naming story behind Anar

One of the source’s documented entries for Anar records a meaning of he will remember, he will commemorate.

One of the source’s documented entries for Anar records a meaning of pomegranate.

Origin, language, and formation

Anar is used in Azerbaijani and Turkish. Its origins include Persian.

Anar comes through fa-cls انار.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Azerbaijani, Anar is pronounced [ɑˈnɑɾ].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 59 boys were recorded with the name Anar between 2005 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 12 in 2007; its best national rank was #6,642 in 2007.

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.

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How common is Anar?

Anar had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023: 1 in 663,000; 5 of 3,314,783 births
Among boys only: 1 in 342,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2023: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 459,528 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Anar 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 2023 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 459,528 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Anar. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Anars were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Anar was born before 2014 — so the typical Anar is around 11 today.

Median birth year: 2014; About 11 years old
Biggest decade: 2010s; 54.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 59; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2010s — 54.2% of all recorded uses (32).

Is Anar 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: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 2007 (12)
Years since peak: 18; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 12.5% average annual change
Best rank ever: #6,642; 2007

Spellings of Anar

Anar is not the most common spelling — Adam is, with 35.2% against Anar's <0.01%.

Adam35.2%580,378
Alan22.1%363,313
Andre7.9%130,656
Omar6.5%106,438
Andy5.7%94,185
Amir3.4%55,747
Dana3.2%53,287
Lamar2.1%33,967

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.

Anar around the world

Where Anar 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.

France
2009–2017
#6,380
in 2017

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Anar by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #6,642; 2007
Peak year: 2007; 12 that year
First recorded: 2005
Last recorded: 2023
All-time count: 59
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Anar

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

Anan Anael Anagh Anari Anav Anais Anakyn Anani Anatoly Anant Anahi Anass Anania Ananth Anay Anabel Analu Ananda Conar Anatole Gunar Anas Anaiah Hunar

Sibling names for Anar

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

For a sister

Jailyn Kalli Neveah Marlen Jaylyn Lupita Rhianna Marin

For a brother

Jaeden Nikhil Jamarcus Slade Brandt Nevin Ean Davian

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