Meaning not yet researched.
Anwar: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 38 in 2025. Its best rank was #697 in 1978.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #697 in 1978; #3,129 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Anwar in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,129 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1978, at #697.
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Anwar: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 38 boys in 2025. Peak: #697 in 1978 · most boys in one year: 144 (1978).
In 2025, 38 US boys were named Anwar, making it the 3,129th most common boys’ name of the year, down 253 places from #2,876 in 2024. That is 6 fewer than the 44 boys named Anwar in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #697, reached in 1978. That year also had the most boys given the name: 144. For comparison, it was #2,770 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Anwar in 57 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1969 with 6 babies. In all, 2,864 US babies have been given the name, 3.6% of them girls and 96% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 754 babies named Anwar.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 380 US boys were named Anwar; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 51. In 2025 that was about 1 in 44,949 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Enver and Anwaar are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Enver (91), Anwaar (5).
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 Anwar 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 | — | — | 38 | #3,129 |
| 2024 | — | — | 44 | #2,876 |
| 2023 | — | — | 38 | #3,182 |
| 2022 | — | — | 41 | #3,007 |
| 2021 | — | — | 25 | #4,122 |
| 2020 | 6 | #13,615 | 33 | #3,352 |
| 2019 | — | — | 51 | #2,556 |
| 2018 | — | — | 35 | #3,249 |
| 2017 | — | — | 32 | #3,441 |
| 2016 | — | — | 43 | #2,785 |
| 2015 | 6 | #14,697 | 43 | #2,770 |
| 2014 | — | — | 33 | #3,307 |
| 2013 | 6 | #14,787 | 45 | #2,626 |
| 2012 | 7 | #13,637 | 35 | #3,183 |
| 2011 | — | — | 55 | #2,319 |
| 2010 | — | — | 50 | #2,470 |
| 2009 | 10 | #10,766 | 52 | #2,453 |
| 2008 | 5 | #17,812 | 44 | #2,754 |
| 2007 | — | — | 42 | #2,816 |
| 2006 | 6 | #15,330 | 54 | #2,313 |
| 2005 | — | — | 83 | #1,636 |
| 2004 | — | — | 48 | #2,346 |
| 2003 | — | — | 45 | #2,356 |
| 2002 | — | — | 51 | #2,092 |
| 2001 | — | — | 49 | #2,119 |
| 2000 | 7 | #11,917 | 47 | #2,139 |
| 1999 | — | — | 42 | #2,200 |
| 1998 | — | — | 34 | #2,509 |
| 1997 | 9 | #9,084 | 40 | #2,167 |
| 1996 | 8 | #9,656 | 46 | #1,935 |
| 1995 | 6 | #11,903 | 23 | #3,027 |
| 1994 | 8 | #9,653 | 30 | #2,510 |
| 1993 | — | — | 42 | #1,937 |
| 1992 | — | — | 34 | #2,216 |
| 1991 | — | — | 40 | #1,923 |
| 1990 | — | — | 46 | #1,730 |
| 1989 | — | — | 46 | #1,683 |
| 1988 | — | — | 47 | #1,554 |
| 1987 | — | — | 41 | #1,658 |
| 1986 | — | — | 39 | #1,646 |
| 1985 | 5 | #10,783 | 50 | #1,371 |
| 1984 | — | — | 86 | #951 |
| 1983 | 5 | #10,371 | 85 | #957 |
| 1982 | — | — | 140 | #741 |
| 1981 | — | — | 140 | #730 |
| 1980 | 9 | #6,819 | 61 | #1,166 |
| 1979 | — | — | 92 | #914 |
| 1978 | — | — | 144 | #697 |
| 1977 | — | — | 60 | #1,122 |
| 1976 | — | — | 51 | #1,210 |
| 1975 | — | — | 43 | #1,322 |
| 1974 | — | — | 35 | #1,472 |
| 1973 | — | — | 19 | #2,131 |
| 1972 | — | — | 23 | #1,872 |
| 1971 | — | — | 15 | #2,468 |
| 1970 | — | — | 5 | #4,760 |
| 1969 | — | — | 6 | #3,964 |
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).