Anu — #11281 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Anu

The Social Security Administration has registered 282 babies named Anu between 1972 and 2024, spanning 53 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Anu currently holds the #11281 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2004, when 15 babies received it in a single year. Anu is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 75 additional births since 2005.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Anu performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 75 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Anu shows notable generational variation in parental adoption.

No etymological entry is currently available for Anu 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 282 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.