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Anish

#6,469 in 2025Boys' name

Supreme, paramount, without a ruler + ruler, lord

Anish has been given to 3,109 babies in the U.S. since 1970. In 2025 it ranked #6,469 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2010, with 184 recorded.

Babies named Anish, 2025

1 in 255,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Anish: meaning, origin, and history

Supreme, paramount, without a ruler + ruler, lord

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Anish means

Anish means “supreme, paramount, without a ruler + ruler, lord”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,109 boys were recorded with the name Anish between 1970 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 184 in 2010; its best national rank was #1,047 in 2010.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,847 in 2020 to #6,469 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,827 in 2015 to #6,469 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.

How common is Anish?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 255,000
13 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 131,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#6,469
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
176,762 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Anish 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 176,762 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Anish. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Anishs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Anish was born before 2007 — so the typical Anish is around 18 today.

Median birth year
2007
About 18 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
43.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
77.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
3,109
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 43.3% of all recorded uses (1,347).

Is Anish 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
−2,142
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−3,622
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−4,642
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.16×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
7.1%
Peak was 2010 (184)
Years since peak
15
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,047
2010

Spellings of Anish

Anish is not the most common spelling — Nash is, with 37.7% against Anish's 5.2%.

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 Anish is used

Across 1910–2025, Anish was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 16,667 boys, against 1 in 68,011 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in —).

06 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 16,667
  2. 2California1 in 33,333
  3. 3Illinois1 in 50,000
  4. 4Massachusetts1 in 50,000
  5. 5Virginia1 in 50,000
  6. 6Connecticut1 in 100,000
  7. 7Georgia1 in 100,000
  8. 8Maryland1 in 100,000

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. Anish has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Anish around the world

Where Anish 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
    1996–2024
    #2,672
    in 2024
  • Ireland
    2011–2013
    #711
    in 2013
  • France
    2009–2022
    #6,711
    in 2022
  • Canada
    1992–2024
    #2,134
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2005–2012
    #771
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, 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. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Anish

People whose public names include Anish, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Anish in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Anish. Linked forms have their own page here.

Anis

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Anish by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#6,469
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 3,622
Best rank ever
#1,047
2010
Peak year
2010
184 that year
First recorded
1970
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,109
Count in 2025
13

Names similar to Anish

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

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Names with a curve like Anish

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Anish, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Anish

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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