Aniruddh
Aniruddh was given to 5 boys in 2025, #12,152 among boys’ names; 71 Americans have been recorded with it since 2003 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Aniruddh by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Aniruddh mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Aniruddh is “a male given name from Sanskrit used in India.”
Borrowed from Sanskrit अनिरुद्ध (aniruddha).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Aniruddh?
#12,152 among boys’ names, 2025
Aniruddh entered the boys’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #12,152 in 2025.
8 babies in 2003, the peak
Aniruddh peaked in 2003, when 8 boys were given it, #7,883 among boys’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 63% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #12,152 | 2.9 |
| 2020 | 5 | #12,146 | 2.9 |
| 2014 | 6 | #10,790 | 3.1 |
| 2013 | 5 | #12,258 | 2.6 |
| 2012 | 7 | #9,766 | 3.7 |
| 2010 | 8 | #8,847 | 4.2 |
| 2009 | 7 | #9,919 | 3.5 |
| 2008 | 7 | #9,914 | 3.4 |
| 2007 | 5 | #12,475 | 2.4 |
| 2005 | 8 | #8,337 | 4.0 |
Every recorded year (11)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 8 | #7,883 | 4.0 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Aniruddh a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Aniruddh has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 11 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Aniruddh: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Aniruddh, and how old are they?
An estimated 70 Americans named Aniruddh and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
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.
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 1,648 babies since 1880, Aniruddh is the second most given (4.3% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 36 babies (14%), again the second 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 Aniruddh
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 Aniruddh and names like it
- Compare Aniruddh and AnirudhBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sAniruddh peaked in 2003.
- Sanskrit namesWiktionary’s origin for Aniruddh: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2003The year the most babies were named Aniruddh.
- Names starting with AMost given first.