Anant

maleStatistical record

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

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

1registrar recorded it
11times a registrar ranked it
27years from first to last
#2160highest recorded position
2groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 2023–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2023	#4709
2024	#2253

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 9 of the 27 years from 1998 to 2024.

Official data for England and Wales, 1998–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1998
First recorded at #2901 among boys in England and Wales in 1998 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Highest recorded1998–2024
Highest recorded position: #2160 among boys in England and Wales, in 2023 (recorded 1998–2024).
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #2253 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Anant appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 9 years beginning in 1998, and has registered 46 births with the name.

Anant across 2 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.

Anant'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	#2901 (1998)	#2160 (2023)	#2671 (2024)	9 of 27	46 (1998–2024)	10 (2023)
England and Wales · Girls	#4709 (2023)	#2253 (2024)	#2253 (2024)	2 of 2	16 (2023–2024)	12 (2024)

Anant 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 Anant in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	3	1 of 10	3
2000s	5	1 of 10	5
2010s	10	3 of 10	3
2020s	28	4 of 10	7

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

Anant appears in

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

Popularity data

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1998 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #2160 in England and Wales in 2023.

Anant'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	#2253	12	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#2671	8	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#4709	4	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#2160	10	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#3451	5	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#3334	5	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#4702	3	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#3895	4	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#4805	3	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#3095	5	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#2901	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 1 registrar between 1998 and 2024, ranked in 9 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #2,160, first reached in 2023.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 12 births, registered in England and Wales in 2024.

Its record falls into 6 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 8 years.

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.

4decades with a ranked yearRecorded in 4 decades →
3 yearslongest unbroken run of ranked years
6separate stretches the record falls into6 to 9 separate stretches →
8 yearslongest absence inside the recorded period4 to 9 years missing →
#2,253position in 2024, its most recent recorded year
12births registered in its largest year, 2024Under 25 births →

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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Anara · #3148, 14y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 1 registrar, 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.

Arhan · #2160, 14y
Henos · #2160, 13y
Hridhaan · #2160, 12y
Luca-Jay · #2160, 10y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Mendel · #2160, 24y
Elham · #2163, 23y
Mala · #2163, 26y
Rainbow · #2163, 15y

Anant 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 Anant without appearing here.

Anant moved ahead of

Glenn Compare
In 2022 they stood at #3451 and #2730 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2023 that had become #2160 and #4991.
Graham Compare
In 2023 they stood at #2160 and #1533 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #2671 and #5119.
Espen Compare
In 2022 they stood at #3451 and #3451 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2023 that had become #2160 and #4107.
Aria Compare
In 2023 they stood at #3451 and #3451 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #2671 and #4270.

Moved ahead of Anant

Rune Compare
In 2018 they stood at #3895 and #4632 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2019 that had become #4702 and #2104.
Gunnar Compare
In 2018 they stood at #3895 and #4632 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2019 that had become #4702 and #2728.
Aksel Compare
In 2011 they stood at #3095 and #3589 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2012 that had become #4805 and #3416.
Matheo Compare
In 2013 they stood at #3095 and #4333 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2014 that had become #3895 and #2964.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

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.

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1998 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #2160 in England and Wales in 2023. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Anant

Anant at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Anant across 2 official records

Anant by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Anant appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Anant and the names beside it

Anant moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Anant

Anant at a glance

Anant across 2 official records

Anant by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Anant appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Anant and the names beside it

Anant moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Anant