Anant — #4604 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Anant

The Social Security Administration has registered 364 babies named Anant between 1973 and 2024, spanning 52 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Anant currently holds the #4604 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2024, when 22 babies received it in a single year. Anant is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 22 additional births since 2023.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Anant performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 94 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Anant shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 25 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Anant in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Anant in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 364 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.