Anand

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Anand: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Anand: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #596 in 2006, and it stood at #1,449 in 2024.

2registrars recorded it
37times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#596highest recorded position
8groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 2014–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2014	#4003
2016	#4763
2018	#3178
2019	#5591
2023	#2689
2024	#1449

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2009: #701 among boys in Republic of Ireland, #1859 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #818 among boys in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Highest recorded2006–2009
Highest recorded position: #596 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 2006 (recorded 2006–2009).
Republic of Ireland · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #1449 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Anand appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 280 births with the name.

Anand across 3 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Anand's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#818 (1996)	#813 (1998)	#3254 (2024)	29 of 29	280 (1996–2024)	19 (1998)
England and Wales · Girls	#4003 (2014)	#1449 (2024)	#1449 (2024)	6 of 11	50 (2014–2024)	22 (2024)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#596 (2006)	#596 (2006)	#701 (2009)	2 of 4	6 (2006–2009)	3 (2006)

Anand by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Anand in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	59	4 of 10	15
2000sbusiest	110	10 of 10	11
2010s	85	10 of 10	9
2020s	26	5 of 10	5

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 11 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Anand appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #596 in Republic of Ireland in 2006.

Anand's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#1449	22	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#3254	6	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#2689	9	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#3112	6	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#3449	5	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#3017	6	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#4608	3	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#5591	3	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#2488	8	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#3178	7	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#2112	10	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#3040	6	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#4763	4	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#3079	6	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#2707	7	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#4003	5	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#1721	13	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#2954	6	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#2270	9	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#1522	15	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#3332	5	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#1859	11	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#1596	13	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#1578	13	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#2087	8	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#2174	7	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#1596	10	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#2189	6	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#1128	14	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#983	16	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#1167	12	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#1082	13	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#813	19	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#1345	9	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#818	18	High	Verified
2009	Republic of Ireland	male	#701	3	High	Verified
2006	Republic of Ireland	male	#596	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #596, first reached in 2006.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 22 births, registered in England and Wales in 2024.

1 registrar publishes it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2006, and 10 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Alberto · #596, 28y
Gian · #596, 29y
Ilias · #596, 28y
Oluwafemi · #596, 26y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Alberto · #596, 28y
Albin · #596, 17y
Cale · #596, 21y
Darwin · #596, 26y

Anand was ranked #596 in Republic of Ireland · Boys in 2006. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Anand and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Anand without appearing here.

Anand moved ahead of

Hayden Compare
In 2023 they stood at #2689 and #2346 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #1449 and #5891.
Teddy Compare
In 2023 they stood at #2689 and #2689 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #1449 and #5891.
Cameron Compare
In 2023 they stood at #2689 and #2201 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #1449 and #4843.
Cheryl Compare
In 2022 they stood at #5591 and #2286 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #2689 and #5687.

Moved ahead of Anand

Gunnar Compare
In 2019 they stood at #2488 and #2728 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2020 that had become #4608 and #1935.
Theodor Compare
In 2009 they stood at #1859 and #2544 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2010 that had become #3332 and #1201.
Fiadh Compare
In 2015 they stood at #4003 and #5691 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #4763 and #2757.
Rodney Compare
In 2019 they stood at #2488 and #3937 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2020 that had become #4608 and #2682.

Moved the opposite way to Anand

Albie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Anand went from #818 to #3254 while Albie went from #853 to #19.
Alfie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Anand went from #818 to #3254 while Alfie went from #119 to #16.
Alfred Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Anand went from #818 to #3254 while Alfred went from #218 to #81.
Archie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Anand went from #818 to #3254 while Archie went from #192 to #10.

Moved the same way as Anand

Aaron Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Anand went from #818 to #3254 and Aaron from #33 to #154.
Adam Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Anand went from #818 to #3254 and Adam from #16 to #35.
Alan Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Anand went from #818 to #3254 and Alan from #163 to #592.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Anand went from #818 to #3254 and Alex from #43 to #171.

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #596 in Republic of Ireland in 2006. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Anand

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Anand across 3 official records

Anand by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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