Anchal
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Anchal has been given to 34 babies in the U.S. since 2000. 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 2004, with 9 recorded.
Babies named Anchal, 2007
1 in 800,000
Anchal over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Anchal?
Anchal had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2007, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2007
- 1 in 800,000
- 5 of 3,997,748 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 384,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2007
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 554,207 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Anchal sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2007 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 554,207 children born in 2007 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Anchal. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Anchals were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Anchal was born before 2004 — so the typical Anchal is around 21 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 100.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 34
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (34).
Is Anchal 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
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- 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 2004 (9)
- Years since peak
- 21
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 25.6% average annual change
Spellings of Anchal
Anchal is not the most common spelling — Michal is, with 61.0% against Anchal's 0.51%.
Anchal around the world
Where Anchal 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 & Wales2000–2000#2,746in 2000
- South Australia2001–2001#711in 2001
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Anchal by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Anchal
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Anchal
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.