Anish
Anish was given to 13 boys in 2025, #6,469 among boys’ names; 3,109 Americans have been recorded with it since 1970 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,050 Americans named Anish 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 25.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Anish by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Anish?
#6,469 among boys’ names, 2025
Anish fell from #1,827 in 2015 to #6,469 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 42.3 to 7.6 per million.
184 babies in 2010, the peak
Anish peaked in 2010, when 184 boys were given it, #1,047 among boys’ names. The 13 births of 2025 are 7% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #6,469 | 7.6 |
| 2024 | 24 | #4,327 | 13.9 |
| 2023 | 25 | #4,225 | 14.6 |
| 2022 | 26 | #4,095 | 14.9 |
| 2021 | 35 | #3,302 | 20.0 |
| 2020 | 42 | #2,847 | 24.3 |
| 2019 | 55 | #2,422 | 30.7 |
| 2018 | 33 | #3,371 | 18.2 |
| 2017 | 58 | #2,271 | 31.3 |
| 2016 | 81 | #1,846 | 42.7 |
Every recorded year (55)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 81 | #1,827 | 42.3 |
| 2014 | 106 | #1,514 | 55.2 |
| 2013 | 131 | #1,316 | 69.3 |
| 2012 | 127 | #1,336 | 66.9 |
| 2011 | 141 | #1,235 | 74.2 |
| 2010 | 184 | #1,047 | 95.9 |
| 2009 | 180 | #1,051 | 90.7 |
| 2008 | 122 | #1,389 | 59.8 |
| 2007 | 135 | #1,287 | 65.0 |
| 2006 | 151 | #1,132 | 73.5 |
| 2005 | 139 | #1,149 | 69.6 |
| 2004 | 151 | #1,060 | 76.1 |
| 2003 | 129 | #1,158 | 65.3 |
| 2002 | 138 | #1,084 | 71.1 |
| 2001 | 111 | #1,207 | 57.1 |
| 2000 | 91 | #1,380 | 46.3 |
| 1999 | 61 | #1,709 | 31.8 |
| 1998 | 41 | #2,200 | 21.5 |
| 1997 | 38 | #2,229 | 20.2 |
| 1996 | 27 | #2,745 | 14.3 |
| 1995 | 30 | #2,504 | 15.8 |
| 1994 | 33 | #2,344 | 17.1 |
| 1993 | 30 | #2,451 | 15.3 |
| 1992 | 20 | #3,220 | 10.0 |
| 1991 | 28 | #2,464 | 13.9 |
| 1990 | 24 | #2,694 | 11.7 |
| 1989 | 27 | #2,412 | 13.5 |
| 1988 | 32 | #1,985 | 16.7 |
| 1987 | 22 | #2,465 | 11.8 |
| 1986 | 20 | #2,601 | 10.9 |
| 1985 | 14 | #3,222 | 7.6 |
| 1984 | 24 | #2,161 | 13.3 |
| 1983 | 15 | #2,919 | 8.4 |
| 1982 | 15 | #2,976 | 8.3 |
| 1981 | 11 | #3,611 | 6.1 |
| 1980 | 12 | #3,431 | 6.7 |
| 1979 | 18 | #2,575 | 10.5 |
| 1978 | 9 | #3,868 | 5.5 |
| 1977 | 6 | #5,156 | 3.7 |
| 1976 | 7 | #4,442 | 4.5 |
| 1974 | 10 | #3,330 | 6.4 |
| 1973 | 8 | #3,707 | 5.1 |
| 1972 | 8 | #3,632 | 4.9 |
| 1971 | 5 | #4,948 | 2.8 |
| 1970 | 5 | #4,751 | 2.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Anish a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Anish has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 55 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Anish: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Anish, and how old are they?
3,050 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 3,109 Americans ever recorded as Anish. The median Anish alive today is 19 years old; half are between 14 and 25.
The 2020 Census counted 4,400 people named Anish (36 women and girls, 4,364 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,912 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.5 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 | 80 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 354 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,910 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 704 |
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 Anish born?
The states with the most babies named Anish are California, New Jersey and Texas, with 57% 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 | 507 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| New Jersey | 296 | not ranked | 3.4× |
| Texas | 198 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 130 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| New York | 110 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Michigan | 96 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Virginia | 89 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Massachusetts | 65 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Georgia | 61 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Pennsylvania | 58 | not ranked | 0.5× |
Where Anish is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Anish is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 1970 it was given 3.4 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 Anish 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, Anish is the most given (49% of them). In 2025 it was given to 13 of their 87 babies (15%), 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 Anish
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 Anish and names like it
- Compare Anish and AnshBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sAnish peaked in 2010.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Anish since 1910.
- The top names of 2010The year the most babies were named Anish.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Anish alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.