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Aneel

Boys' name

Hindu god of the wind, through Anil

Aneel has been given to 20 babies in the U.S. since 1984. 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 1984, with 5 recorded.

Babies named Aneel, 2016

1 in 734,000

Aneel over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Aneel: meaning, origin, and history

Hindu god of the wind, through Anil

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Aneel means

Aneel belongs to the name family reached through Aneel → Anil. Its meaning is “Hindu god of the wind”.

Origin, language, and formation

Aneel is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Anil.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Aneel is pronounced /əˈniːl/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 20 boys were recorded with the name Aneel between 1984 and 2016. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1984; its best national rank was #6,353 in 1984.

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 Aneel?

Aneel had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2016, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2016
1 in 734,000
5 of 3,669,531 births
Among boys only
1 in 380,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2016
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
508,706 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Aneel 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 2016 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 508,706 children born in 2016 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Aneel. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Aneels were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Aneel was born before 2005 — so the typical Aneel is around 20 today.

Median birth year
2005
About 20 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
50.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
75.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
20
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 50.0% of all recorded uses (10).

Is Aneel 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 1984 (5)
Years since peak
41
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#6,353
1984

Spellings of Aneel

Aneel is not the most common spelling — Daniel is, with 65.9% against Aneel's <0.01%.

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.

Aneel around the world

Where Aneel 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
    1996–2013
    #3,822
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Aneel 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
#6,353
1984
Peak year
1984
5 that year
First recorded
1984
Last recorded
2016
All-time count
20
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Aneel

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

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Sibling names for Aneel

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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