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Anuar

#9,781 in 2025Boys' name

Bright, shining, luminous, through أنور

Anuar has been given to 329 babies in the U.S. since 1981. In 2025 it ranked #9,781 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2005, with 19 recorded.

Babies named Anuar, 2025

1 in 474,000

Anuar over time, 1880–2025

Boys
0510152018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Anuar: meaning, origin, and history

Bright, shining, luminous, through أنور

Arabic

What Anuar means

Anuar belongs to the name family reached through Anuar → أنور. Its meaning is “bright, shining, luminous”.

Origin, language, and formation

Anuar is used in Albanian. Its origins include Arabic.

Anuar comes through Arabic أنور.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Anwar and أنور.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 329 boys were recorded with the name Anuar between 1981 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 19 in 2005; its best national rank was #4,474 in 2005.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #8,793 in 2020 to #9,781 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #12,210 in 2015 to #9,781 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 Anuar?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 474,000
7 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 244,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#9,781
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
328,272 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Anuar 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 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Anuar. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Anuars were born

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

Median birth year
2010
About 15 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
32.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
83.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
329
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Choose a decade

2000s — 32.8% of all recorded uses (108).

Is Anuar 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
−3,860
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−988
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+2,429
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.40×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
36.8%
Peak was 2005 (19)
Years since peak
20
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
45.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,474
2005

Spellings of Anuar

Anuar is not the most common spelling — Amar is, with 16.7% against Anuar's 1.1%.

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 Anuar is used

Across 1910–2025, Anuar was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 682,137 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Texas1 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. Anuar has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Anuar around the world

Where Anuar 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
    2015–2025
    #5,137
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2011–2011
    #730
    in 2011
  • France
    2012–2025
    #3,981
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2017–2017
    #2,944
    in 2017

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Anuar by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#9,781
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 988
Best rank ever
#4,474
2005
Peak year
2005
19 that year
First recorded
1981
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
329
Count in 2025
7

Names similar to Anuar

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

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Sibling names for Anuar

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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