Anil
The boy's name Anil has been in the national records since 1959, with 1,160 births to its name. It has not appeared in the national data since 2024. About 1,100 Anils are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 38.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Anil
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 1,160
- Estimated living today
- 1,100
- Median age today
- 38
- Peak year
- 1989
- Best rank
- 1,678th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1959
How old the living Anils are
born that year still alive today
Of the 1,160 babies given the name since 1959, about 1,100 are alive — 94 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1987 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Indo-Aryan languages, from Sanskrit, Dravidian languages, from Sanskrit
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Anils
- Anil Kapoor (born 1959)Indian actor
- Anil Ambani (born 1959)Indian businessman (1959-present)
- Anil Kumble (born 1970)former Indian cricketer
- Anil Kakodkar (born 1943)Indian scientist
- Anil Menon (born 1976)physician and NASA astronaut
People named Anil with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Anil is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Anil is most concentrated in New York (9.1×), California (1.8×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1989
The most popular boys’ names the year Anil peaked:
Anil elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Anil | 630 | 1,309th |
| England and Wales boys | Anil | 274 | 554th |
| Belgium boys | Anil | 154 | 703rd |
| Switzerland boys | Anil | 147 | 422nd |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Anil: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Anil | 112 | 0.009% | 417th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Anil | 35 | 0.008% | 287th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Anil is most concentrated in Zurich, where 0.01% of children were given it – 32 of them.
Anil: rank by region
In 2022, Anil was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Anil | 757 | 6 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Anil by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 2 | 566th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Anil among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Anil | 25 | 30 |
| Finland girls | Anil | — | 6 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Anil against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.