Anand

Anand is the 5,458th most common surname in the United States, shared by 6,160 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 48,500.

By the numbers

People: 6,160
Rank: 5,458th
How common: 1 in 48,500
Per 100,000: 2.1

Where the name comes from

Origin Sanskrit

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Anand described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 92.4%
White, not Hispanic 3.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.4%
Hispanic or Latino 0.6%
Black, not Hispanic 0.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Anand

Viswanathan Anand (born 1969)Indian chess grandmaster
Dev Anand (1923–2011)Indian actor, producer, director
Mulk Raj Anand (1905–2004)Indian English writer
Priya Anand (born 1986)Indian actress
Anita Anand (born 1967)Canadian politician and professor
Chetan Anand (1915–1997)Hindi film producer, screenwriter and director
Tinnu Anand (born 1953)Indian actor, writer and director
Siddharth Anand (born 1978)Indian film director and writer

People named Anand with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Anand

Anaya

Also a first name

Anand has been given to 1,932 American babies as a first name since 1966, peaking in 1980. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.