Aneesh
Aneesh was given to 5 boys in 2025, #12,147 among boys’ names; 920 Americans have been recorded with it since 1975 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Aneesh by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Aneesh mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Aneesh is “a male given name from Hindi, of Indian usage.” Its etymology gives the senses “paramount, supreme” (anīś,) and “having no lord/master” (literally).
Transliteration of Hindi अनीश (anīś, “paramount, supreme”, literally “having no lord/master”).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Aneesh?
#12,147 among boys’ names, 2025
Aneesh fell from #3,434 in 2015 to #12,147 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 16.7 to 2.9 per million.
65 babies in 2005, the peak
Aneesh peaked in 2005, when 65 boys were given it, #1,941 among boys’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 8% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #12,147 | 2.9 |
| 2024 | 5 | #12,469 | 2.9 |
| 2023 | 5 | #12,363 | 2.9 |
| 2021 | 8 | #8,878 | 4.6 |
| 2020 | 14 | #5,995 | 8.1 |
| 2019 | 15 | #5,828 | 8.4 |
| 2018 | 22 | #4,484 | 12.1 |
| 2017 | 19 | #4,948 | 10.3 |
| 2016 | 19 | #4,953 | 10.0 |
| 2015 | 32 | #3,434 | 16.7 |
Every recorded year (39)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 32 | #3,377 | 16.7 |
| 2013 | 32 | #3,340 | 16.9 |
| 2012 | 46 | #2,634 | 24.2 |
| 2011 | 44 | #2,700 | 23.2 |
| 2010 | 39 | #2,960 | 20.3 |
| 2009 | 47 | #2,622 | 23.7 |
| 2008 | 51 | #2,469 | 25.0 |
| 2007 | 54 | #2,376 | 26.0 |
| 2006 | 47 | #2,543 | 22.9 |
| 2005 | 65 | #1,941 | 32.5 |
| 2004 | 39 | #2,695 | 19.6 |
| 2003 | 45 | #2,350 | 22.8 |
| 2002 | 34 | #2,753 | 17.5 |
| 2001 | 26 | #3,321 | 13.4 |
| 2000 | 23 | #3,536 | 11.7 |
| 1999 | 19 | #3,841 | 9.9 |
| 1998 | 17 | #4,022 | 8.9 |
| 1997 | 17 | #3,884 | 9.0 |
| 1996 | 13 | #4,613 | 6.9 |
| 1995 | 14 | #4,286 | 7.4 |
| 1994 | 10 | #5,468 | 5.2 |
| 1993 | 7 | #6,844 | 3.6 |
| 1992 | 14 | #4,112 | 7.0 |
| 1990 | 9 | #5,389 | 4.4 |
| 1989 | 10 | #4,820 | 5.0 |
| 1988 | 6 | #6,451 | 3.1 |
| 1987 | 5 | #7,005 | 2.7 |
| 1986 | 6 | #5,958 | 3.3 |
| 1975 | 5 | #5,494 | 3.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Aneesh a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Aneesh has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 39 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Aneesh: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Aneesh, and how old are they?
An estimated 905 Americans named Aneesh and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 14 and 24. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,219 people named Aneesh (10 women and girls, 1,209 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 876 born in the U.S. The Census count is 39% above 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.
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 Aneesh born?
The states with the most babies named Aneesh are California, Texas and New Jersey, with 87% of its births recorded by state since 1910; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 141 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Texas | 38 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| New Jersey | 30 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Virginia | 15 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Michigan | 6 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Georgia | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Illinois | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Aneesh is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Aneesh is most over-represented in California: since 1975 it was given 1.1 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 Aneesh 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 6,363 babies since 1880, Aneesh is the third most given (14% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 87 babies (5.7%), again the third most given.
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 Aneesh
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 Aneesh and names like it
- Compare Aneesh and AnishBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sAneesh peaked in 2005.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Aneesh since 1910.
- The top names of 2005The year the most babies were named Aneesh.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Aneesh alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.