Anand
Anand reached its high-water mark in 1980 at number 1,227, and has been recorded 1,932 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 5,861st. About 1,900 Anands are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 28.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Anand boys named Anand
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 1,932
- Estimated living today
- 1,900
- Median age today
- 28
- Peak year
- 1980
- Best rank
- 1,227th
- Rank in 2025
- 5,861st
- First recorded
- 1966
- Girls / boys
- 30 / 1,902
How old the living Anands are
born that year still alive today
Of the 1,932 babies given the name since 1966, about 1,900 are alive — 96 in every hundred. Roughly 520 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1997 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 Sanskrit
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Anands
- Viswanathan Anand (born 1969)Indian chess grandmaster
- Anand Panyarachun (born 1932)Thai politician
- Anand Satyanand (born 1944)19th Governor General of New Zealand
- Anand Bakshi (1930–2002)Indian poet and lyricist
- Anand Mahindra (born 1955)Indian businessman, born 1955
- Anand Amritraj (born 1952)Indian tennis player
- Anand Tucker (born 1963)British film director and producer
- Anand Kumar (born 1973)Indian mathematician
People named Anand with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Anand is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Anand is most concentrated in California (4.3×), New York (3.8×), New Jersey (3.3×), Illinois (2.6×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1980
The most popular boys’ names the year Anand peaked:
Anand elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Anand | 287 | 813th |
| France boys | Anand | 75 | 6,228th |
| England and Wales girls | Anand | 63 | 1,449th |
| Ireland boys | Anand | 6 | 596th |
| Poland boys | Anand | 4 birth registrations | 736th |
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.
Anand 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 | Anand | 8 | 17 |
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
Anand 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.