Anshul — boys' name
375 babies named Anshul in U.S. Social Security records since 1989, with the highest year being 2005. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
63% of everyone ever named Anshul was born in this single decade.
36 babies were named Anshul in 2005 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Anshul
The Social Security Administration has registered 375 babies named Anshul between 1989 and 2020, spanning 32 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Anshul currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2020. The name reached its historical peak in 2005, when 36 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Anshul performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 237 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Anshul shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 39 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New Jersey and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Anshul in 3 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Anshul 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 375 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.
Anshul at a glance
Last recorded 2020Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Anshul popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2020–1989
- Peak year (2005)
- 36
- Annual births at peak — across 32 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2020.
375 total births across 32 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2005 with 36 births in a single year.
Anshul by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2000s
- 237 births that decade — 63% of Anshul's all-time total
Anshul decade highlights
- Peak decade 237 births
- Runner-up 83 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2000s was Anshul's strongest decade
237 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 63% of all-time use.
Anshul by state
Where Anshul concentrates geographically — total births since 1989
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 39 | 10.4% |
| #2 | New Jersey | | 26 | 6.9% |
| #3 | Texas | | 5 | 1.3% |
39 of 375 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 3 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- California 10.4% of nationwide
- New Jersey 6.9% of nationwide
- Texas 1.3% of nationwide
Recorded in 3 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 10.4% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1989–2020 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.