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Anuj

Boys' name

Younger brother

Anuj has been given to 937 babies in the U.S. since 1969. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2006, with 46 recorded.

Babies named Anuj, 2022

1 in 677,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Anuj: meaning, origin, and history

Younger brother

Sanskrit

What Anuj means

Anuj means “younger brother”, associated with anuja.

Origin, language, and formation

Anuj is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

Anuj comes through Sanskrit अनुज.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 937 boys were recorded with the name Anuj between 1969 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 46 in 2006; its best national rank was #2,238 in 1979.

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 Anuj?

Anuj had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2022
1 in 677,000
5 of 3,385,755 births
Among boys only
1 in 349,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2022
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
469,366 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Anuj 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 2022 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 469,366 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Anuj. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Anujs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Anuj was born before 2000 — so the typical Anuj is around 25 today.

Median birth year
2000
About 25 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
33.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
58.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
937
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 33.2% of all recorded uses (311).

Is Anuj 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
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2006 (46)
Years since peak
19
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
42.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,238
1979

Spellings of Anuj

Anuj is not the most common spelling — Andy is, with 75.6% against Anuj's 0.75%.

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 Anuj is used

Across 1910–2025, Anuj was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 393,708 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3Illinois1 in —
  4. 4New York1 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. Anuj has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Anuj around the world

Where Anuj 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
    1996–2022
    #4,790
    in 2022
  • Canada
    1994–2006
    #2,447
    in 2006
  • South Australia
    2009–2011
    #784
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Anuj by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#2,238
1979
Peak year
2006
46 that year
First recorded
1969
Last recorded
2022
All-time count
937
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Anuj

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

AnuelAnuarAnubisAnupAnuAnuragAnushTanujAnuraagAnupamAnubhavAnudeepAnuoluwa

Sibling names for Anuj

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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