Meaning not yet researched.
Anish: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 13 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,047 in 2010.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,047 in 2010; #6,473 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Anish in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#6,473 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2010, at #1,047.
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Anish: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 13 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,047 in 2010 · most boys in one year: 184 (2010).
In 2025, 13 US boys were named Anish, making it the 6,473rd most common boys’ name of the year, down 2,143 places from #4,330 in 2024. That is 11 fewer than the 24 boys named Anish in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,047, reached in 2010. That year also had the most boys given the name: 184. For comparison, it was #1,827 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Anish in 55 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1970 with 5 babies. In all, 3,109 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 1,347 babies named Anish.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 392 US boys were named Anish; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 81. In 2025 that was about 1 in 131,390 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Anais (9,331 babies since 1880), Annis (2,921 babies since 1880) and Anas (2,906 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Aneesh, Anush and Anoush are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Aneesh (920), Anush (90), Anoush (26), Ainesh (11), Anashe (11), Anisse (10).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Anish in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 13 | #6,473 |
| 2024 | — | — | 24 | #4,330 |
| 2023 | — | — | 25 | #4,229 |
| 2022 | — | — | 26 | #4,098 |
| 2021 | — | — | 35 | #3,304 |
| 2020 | — | — | 42 | #2,848 |
| 2019 | — | — | 55 | #2,423 |
| 2018 | — | — | 33 | #3,375 |
| 2017 | — | — | 58 | #2,272 |
| 2016 | — | — | 81 | #1,846 |
| 2015 | — | — | 81 | #1,827 |
| 2014 | — | — | 106 | #1,514 |
| 2013 | — | — | 131 | #1,316 |
| 2012 | — | — | 127 | #1,336 |
| 2011 | — | — | 141 | #1,235 |
| 2010 | — | — | 184 | #1,047 |
| 2009 | — | — | 180 | #1,051 |
| 2008 | — | — | 122 | #1,389 |
| 2007 | — | — | 135 | #1,287 |
| 2006 | — | — | 151 | #1,132 |
| 2005 | — | — | 139 | #1,150 |
| 2004 | — | — | 151 | #1,061 |
| 2003 | — | — | 129 | #1,159 |
| 2002 | — | — | 138 | #1,085 |
| 2001 | — | — | 111 | #1,209 |
| 2000 | — | — | 91 | #1,383 |
| 1999 | — | — | 61 | #1,712 |
| 1998 | — | — | 41 | #2,203 |
| 1997 | — | — | 38 | #2,232 |
| 1996 | — | — | 27 | #2,750 |
| 1995 | — | — | 30 | #2,509 |
| 1994 | — | — | 33 | #2,349 |
| 1993 | — | — | 30 | #2,457 |
| 1992 | — | — | 20 | #3,226 |
| 1991 | — | — | 28 | #2,470 |
| 1990 | — | — | 24 | #2,700 |
| 1989 | — | — | 27 | #2,418 |
| 1988 | — | — | 32 | #1,990 |
| 1987 | — | — | 22 | #2,469 |
| 1986 | — | — | 20 | #2,604 |
| 1985 | — | — | 14 | #3,225 |
| 1984 | — | — | 24 | #2,162 |
| 1983 | — | — | 15 | #2,920 |
| 1982 | — | — | 15 | #2,977 |
| 1981 | — | — | 11 | #3,613 |
| 1980 | — | — | 12 | #3,432 |
| 1979 | — | — | 18 | #2,576 |
| 1978 | — | — | 9 | #3,870 |
| 1977 | — | — | 6 | #5,158 |
| 1976 | — | — | 7 | #4,444 |
| 1974 | — | — | 10 | #3,332 |
| 1973 | — | — | 8 | #3,709 |
| 1972 | — | — | 8 | #3,634 |
| 1971 | — | — | 5 | #4,950 |
| 1970 | — | — | 5 | #4,753 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).