Anand
Anand is given to both girls and boys: 13 girls and 15 boys were given it in 2025 (#7,921 among girls’ names and #5,870 among boys’, #8,266 among all names counting both); 1,932 Americans have been recorded with it since 1966 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,850 Americans named Anand and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 29 years old and half are between 17 and 43.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Anand by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Anand mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Anand is “a male given name from Sanskrit.” Its etymology gives the sense “joy, delight, pleasure” (आनन्द).
Borrowed from Sanskrit आनन्द (ānanda, “joy, delight, pleasure”).
/ˈɑːnənd/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Anand?
#5,870 among boys’ names, 2025
Anand fell from #3,515 in 2015 to #5,870 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 16.2 to 8.8 per million.
56 babies in 1980, the peak
Anand peaked in 1980, when 56 boys were given it, #1,228 among boys’ names. The 28 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 50% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15 | #5,870 | 8.8 |
| 2024 | 26 | #4,080 | 15.1 |
| 2023 | 25 | #4,224 | 14.6 |
| 2022 | 28 | #3,880 | 16.0 |
| 2021 | 23 | #4,367 | 13.1 |
| 2020 | 19 | #4,862 | 11.0 |
| 2019 | 28 | #3,798 | 15.6 |
| 2018 | 31 | #3,531 | 17.1 |
| 2017 | 30 | #3,586 | 16.2 |
| 2016 | 33 | #3,365 | 17.4 |
Every recorded year (60)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 31 | #3,515 | 16.2 |
| 2014 | 33 | #3,302 | 17.2 |
| 2013 | 27 | #3,757 | 14.3 |
| 2012 | 23 | #4,252 | 12.1 |
| 2011 | 28 | #3,697 | 14.7 |
| 2010 | 20 | #4,686 | 10.4 |
| 2009 | 28 | #3,726 | 14.1 |
| 2008 | 41 | #2,880 | 20.1 |
| 2007 | 42 | #2,814 | 20.2 |
| 2006 | 39 | #2,882 | 19.0 |
| 2005 | 42 | #2,613 | 21.0 |
| 2004 | 42 | #2,568 | 21.2 |
| 2003 | 45 | #2,348 | 22.8 |
| 2002 | 39 | #2,501 | 20.1 |
| 2001 | 45 | #2,245 | 23.2 |
| 2000 | 40 | #2,376 | 20.4 |
| 1999 | 36 | #2,459 | 18.7 |
| 1998 | 42 | #2,155 | 22.0 |
| 1997 | 33 | #2,448 | 17.5 |
| 1996 | 39 | #2,142 | 20.6 |
| 1995 | 30 | #2,502 | 15.8 |
| 1994 | 25 | #2,849 | 12.9 |
| 1993 | 30 | #2,450 | 15.3 |
| 1992 | 32 | #2,302 | 16.0 |
| 1991 | 29 | #2,403 | 14.4 |
| 1990 | 27 | #2,486 | 13.1 |
| 1989 | 35 | #2,024 | 17.5 |
| 1988 | 43 | #1,641 | 22.5 |
| 1987 | 41 | #1,654 | 22.0 |
| 1986 | 32 | #1,872 | 17.4 |
| 1985 | 39 | #1,613 | 21.1 |
| 1984 | 42 | #1,481 | 23.3 |
| 1983 | 46 | #1,375 | 25.7 |
| 1982 | 53 | #1,278 | 29.2 |
| 1981 | 43 | #1,456 | 24.0 |
| 1980 | 56 | #1,228 | 31.4 |
| 1979 | 40 | #1,487 | 23.2 |
| 1978 | 34 | #1,617 | 20.7 |
| 1977 | 33 | #1,646 | 20.1 |
| 1976 | 43 | #1,347 | 27.4 |
| 1975 | 39 | #1,408 | 25.0 |
| 1974 | 31 | #1,583 | 19.7 |
| 1973 | 32 | #1,516 | 20.5 |
| 1972 | 18 | #2,158 | 11.1 |
| 1971 | 11 | #2,974 | 6.2 |
| 1970 | 11 | #2,896 | 5.9 |
| 1969 | 12 | #2,552 | 6.7 |
| 1968 | 9 | #2,911 | 5.2 |
| 1967 | 8 | #2,992 | 4.6 |
| 1966 | 5 | #3,962 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Anand a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,932 Americans recorded as Anand, 2% are girls and 98% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Anand: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Anand, and how old are they?
1,850 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 1,932 Americans ever recorded as Anand. The median Anand alive today is 29 years old; half are between 17 and 43.
The 2020 Census counted 6,114 people named Anand (45 women and girls, 6,069 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,713 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.6 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 345 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 555 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 575 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 376 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Anand born?
The states with the most babies named Anand are California, New York and Illinois, with 86% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 275 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| New York | 188 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Illinois | 82 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| New Jersey | 58 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Texas | 18 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Florida | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Anand is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Anand is most over-represented in New York: since 1966 it was given 1.5 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Anand with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 3,985 babies since 1880, Anand is the most given (48% of them). In 2025 it was given to 28 of their 68 babies (41%), the second most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Anand
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Anand and names like it
- Compare Anand and AnandaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sAnand peaked in 1980.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Anand since 1910.
- Sanskrit namesWiktionary’s origin for Anand: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1980The year the most babies were named Anand.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Anand alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.