Anirudh
Anirudh was given to 31 boys in 2025, #3,584 among boys’ names; 1,551 Americans have been recorded with it since 1991 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,530 Americans named Anirudh and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 11 and 22.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Anirudh by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Anirudh?
#3,584 among boys’ names, 2025
Anirudh fell from #2,087 in 2015 to #3,584 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 35.0 to 18.1 per million.
80 babies in 2009, the peak
Anirudh peaked in 2009, when 80 boys were given it, #1,839 among boys’ names. The 31 births of 2025 are 39% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 31 | #3,584 | 18.1 |
| 2024 | 21 | #4,711 | 12.2 |
| 2023 | 36 | #3,295 | 21.0 |
| 2022 | 32 | #3,536 | 18.3 |
| 2021 | 27 | #3,915 | 15.4 |
| 2020 | 27 | #3,814 | 15.6 |
| 2019 | 32 | #3,496 | 17.8 |
| 2018 | 38 | #3,053 | 20.9 |
| 2017 | 44 | #2,758 | 23.8 |
| 2016 | 50 | #2,519 | 26.3 |
Every recorded year (35)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 67 | #2,087 | 35.0 |
| 2014 | 64 | #2,138 | 33.3 |
| 2013 | 63 | #2,114 | 33.3 |
| 2012 | 73 | #1,941 | 38.5 |
| 2011 | 60 | #2,174 | 31.6 |
| 2010 | 75 | #1,897 | 39.1 |
| 2009 | 80 | #1,839 | 40.3 |
| 2008 | 75 | #1,917 | 36.8 |
| 2007 | 71 | #1,975 | 34.2 |
| 2006 | 70 | #1,918 | 34.1 |
| 2005 | 71 | #1,811 | 35.5 |
| 2004 | 61 | #1,971 | 30.7 |
| 2003 | 71 | #1,715 | 35.9 |
| 2002 | 60 | #1,865 | 30.9 |
| 2001 | 59 | #1,867 | 30.4 |
| 2000 | 39 | #2,424 | 19.9 |
| 1999 | 34 | #2,559 | 17.7 |
| 1998 | 40 | #2,233 | 20.9 |
| 1997 | 15 | #4,250 | 8.0 |
| 1996 | 19 | #3,547 | 10.0 |
| 1995 | 12 | #4,799 | 6.3 |
| 1994 | 16 | #3,914 | 8.3 |
| 1993 | 5 | #8,749 | 2.5 |
| 1992 | 7 | #6,693 | 3.5 |
| 1991 | 6 | #7,310 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Anirudh a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Anirudh has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 35 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Anirudh: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Anirudh, and how old are they?
1,530 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,551 Americans ever recorded as Anirudh. The median Anirudh alive today is 17 years old; half are between 11 and 22.
The 2020 Census counted 2,295 people named Anirudh (6 women and girls, 2,289 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,370 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.7 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 63 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 940 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 528 |
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 Anirudh born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 5 | #2,496 | 1.6× |
Where Anirudh is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Anirudh is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 1991 it was given 2.8 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 Anirudh 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 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,622 babies since 1880, Anirudh is the most given (96% of them). In 2025 it was given to 31 of their 36 babies (86%), again the 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 Anirudh
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 Anirudh and names like it
- Compare Anirudh and AniruddhBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sAnirudh peaked in 2009.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Anirudh since 1910.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Anirudh.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Anirudh alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.