How Many People Are Named Anil?
people named Anil are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 314,429 people in the US has this name
Based on 1,160 babies named Anil in Social Security records from 1959 to 2024, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
๐๐ Very Rare
Peak Year
46 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
๐ Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Derived from Sanskrit เค เคจเคฟเคฒ (anila) "air, wind". This is another name of Vayu, the Hindu god of the wind.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
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โง Gender Distribution
All of the babies given the name Anil in the records were boys.
๐ฅ Age Distribution
The average person named Anil alive today is about 38 years old, and 71% are between 30 and 59. Half of them were between 29 and 47 in 2025.
๐ Popularity Over Time
Anil first appears in the records in 1959 and was given most often in 1989, to 46 babies. The last year it was given to at least 5 babies of one sex was 2024.
Babies given the name each year, 1959 to 2024
๐ Rank History
Anil has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #1,370, in 1974.
| Boys | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | Not ranked |
| Best rank | #1,370 (1974) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #1,815 in the 1980s |
๐ State-Wise Distribution
People named Anil alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Anil were born in New York than in any other state: about 252 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Anil was given 9.9 times as often in New York and 1.4 times in California.
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