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Aniruddh

#12,152 in 2025Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded; Sanskrit origin

Aniruddh has been given to 71 babies in the U.S. since 2003. In 2025 it ranked #12,152 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2003, with 8 recorded.

Babies named Aniruddh, 2025

1 in 663,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Aniruddh: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded; Sanskrit origin

Sanskrit

What Aniruddh means

Aniruddh is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Aniruddh is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 71 boys were recorded with the name Aniruddh between 2003 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 8 in 2003; its best national rank was #7,883 in 2003.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #12,146 in 2020 to #12,152 in 2025.

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 Aniruddh?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 342,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#12,152
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Aniruddh 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Aniruddh. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Aniruddhs were born

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

Median birth year
2010
About 15 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
49.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
71
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2000s — 49.3% of all recorded uses (35).

Is Aniruddh 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
−6
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
62.5%
Peak was 2003 (8)
Years since peak
22
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#7,883
2003

Spellings of Aniruddh

Aniruddh is not the most common spelling — Anirudh is, with 95.6% against Aniruddh's 4.4%.

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.

Aniruddh around the world

Where Aniruddh 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
    2020–2020
    #4,608
    in 2020
  • South Australia
    2013–2013
    #754
    in 2013

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.

Aniruddh by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#12,152
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 6
Best rank ever
#7,883
2003
Peak year
2003
8 that year
First recorded
2003
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
71
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Aniruddh

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

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Sibling names for Aniruddh

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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