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Anubis

#4,054 in 2025Boys' name

Royal child, prince

Anubis has been given to 288 babies in the U.S. since 2002. In 2025 it ranked #4,054 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 41 recorded.

Babies named Anubis, 2025

1 in 128,000

Anubis over time, 1880–2025

Boys
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Anubis: meaning, origin, and history

Royal child, prince

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Anubis means

Anubis means “royal child, prince”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 288 boys were recorded with the name Anubis between 2002 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 41 in 2023; its best national rank was #3,008 in 2023.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,572 in 2020 to #4,054 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #9,635 in 2015 to #4,054 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 Anubis?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 128,000
26 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 65,700
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#4,054
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
88,382 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Anubis 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 88,382 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Anubis. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Anubiss were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Anubis was born before 2020 — so the typical Anubis is around 5 today.

Median birth year
2020
About 5 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
57.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
288
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 57.3% of all recorded uses (165).

Is Anubis 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
+841
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−482
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+5,581
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
3.71×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
63.4%
Peak was 2023 (41)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
35.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,008
2023

Where Anubis is used

Across 1910–2025, Anubis was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,555,989 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Florida1 in —
  3. 3Illinois1 in —
  4. 4Pennsylvania1 in —
  5. 5Texas1 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. Anubis has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Anubis by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#4,054
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 482
Best rank ever
#3,008
2023
Peak year
2023
41 that year
First recorded
2002
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
288
Count in 2025
26

Names similar to Anubis

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

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Sibling names for Anubis

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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