Anhad
#3,760 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Anhad has been given to 248 babies in the U.S. since 2009. In 2025 it ranked #3,760 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 29 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 83% boys, 17% girls all-time.
Babies named Anhad, 2025
1 in 114,000
Anhad 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Anhad over time
In 2025, Anhad went to 28% girls and 72% boys.
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.
How common is Anhad?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 114,000
- 29 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 58,900
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #3,760
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 79,239 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Anhad sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 79,239 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Anhad. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Anhads were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Anhad was born before 2021 — so the typical Anhad is around 4 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 55.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 205
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 55.6% of all recorded uses (114).
Is Anhad 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
- +37
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +4,355
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +2,583
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 2.23×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 100.0%
- Peak was 2024 (29)
- Years since peak
- 1
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 32.1% average annual change
Spellings of Anhad
Anhad is not the most common spelling — Chad is, with 74.9% against Anhad's 0.06%.
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 Anhad is used — boys
Across 1910–2025, Anhad was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 256,894 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2Washington1 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. Anhad has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Where Anhad is used — girls
Across 1910–2025, Anhad was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,334,398 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 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. Anhad has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Anhad around the world
Where Anhad 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 & Wales2011–2025#1,798in 2025
- France2020–2020#5,541in 2020
- Canada2007–2024#354in 2024
- South Australia2009–2013#499in 2013
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Anhad by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Anhad
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Anhad
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.