Anish

maleStatistical record

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

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

Anish: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #537 in 2003, and it stood at #2,671 in 2024.

2registrars recorded it
31times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#537highest recorded position
10groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among boys in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#588
1997	#725
1998	#600
1999	#869
2000	#751
2001	#842
2002	#568
2003	#537
2004	#688
2005	#807
2006	#832
2007	#848
2008	#1124
2009	#1067
2010	#918
2011	#878
2012	#962
2013	#771
2014	#1486
2015	#1186
2016	#1431
2017	#2052
2018	#1875
2019	#1869
2020	#2404
2021	#3451
2022	#2018
2023	#2325
2024	#2671

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

FallingEngland and Wales · Boys

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

In 2013: #711 among boys in Republic of Ireland, #771 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 #588 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 recorded1996–2024
Highest recorded position: #537 among boys in England and Wales, in 2003 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #2671 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Boys

Anish appears in 2 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 657 births with the name.

Anish 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.

Anish'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	#588 (1996)	#537 (2003)	#2671 (2024)	29 of 29	657 (1996–2024)	43 (2003)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#730 (2011)	#711 (2013)	#711 (2013)	2 of 3	6 (2011–2013)	3 (2011)

Anish 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 Anish in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	98	4 of 10	25
2000sbusiest	292	10 of 10	29
2010s	226	10 of 10	23
2020s	41	5 of 10	8

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 29 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2013 and 2014, when recorded births fell by 25, from 41 to 16.

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

Anish 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: #537 in England and Wales in 2003.

Anish'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	male	#2671	8	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#2325	9	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#2018	11	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#3451	5	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#2404	8	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#1869	12	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#1875	12	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#2052	11	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#1431	18	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#1186	22	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#1486	16	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#771	41	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#962	30	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#878	33	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#918	31	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#1067	24	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#1124	22	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#848	31	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#832	30	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#807	29	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#688	34	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#537	43	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#568	36	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#842	20	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#751	23	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#869	18	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#600	30	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#725	22	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#588	28	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	male	#711	3	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	male	#730	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 #537, first reached in 2003.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 43 births, registered in England and Wales in 2003.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2011, and 15 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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Anisia · #883, 14y

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.

Asia · #537, 29y
Allana · #536, 29y
Meera · #536, 29y
Orianna · #536, 24y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Asia · #537, 29y
Aditya · #538, 28y
Allana · #536, 29y
Cayleigh · #536, 15y

Anish was ranked #537 in England and Wales · Boys in 2003. 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.

Anish 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 Anish without appearing here.

Anish moved ahead of

Glenn Compare
In 2022 they stood at #3451 and #2730 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2023 that had become #2325 and #4991.
Graham Compare
In 2023 they stood at #2325 and #1533 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #2671 and #5119.
Barry Compare
In 2021 they stood at #3451 and #2301 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2022 that had become #2018 and #4001.
Grant Compare
In 2021 they stood at #3451 and #2301 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2022 that had become #2018 and #4001.

Moved ahead of Anish

Darragh Compare
In 2018 they stood at #1875 and #1991 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2019 that had become #1869 and #974.
Isak Compare
In 2022 they stood at #2018 and #3449 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2023 that had become #2325 and #1461.
Leif Compare
In 2019 they stood at #1869 and #2104 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2020 that had become #2404 and #1548.
Harper Compare
In 2013 they stood at #771 and #821 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2014 that had become #1486 and #670.

Moved the opposite way to Anish

Albie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Anish went from #588 to #2671 while Albie went from #853 to #19.
Alfie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Anish went from #588 to #2671 while Alfie went from #119 to #16.
Alfred Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Anish went from #588 to #2671 while Alfred went from #218 to #81.
Archie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Anish went from #588 to #2671 while Archie went from #192 to #10.

Moved the same way as Anish

Aaron Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Anish went from #588 to #2671 and Aaron from #33 to #154.
Adam Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Anish went from #588 to #2671 and Adam from #16 to #35.
Alan Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Anish went from #588 to #2671 and Alan from #163 to #592.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Anish went from #588 to #2671 and Alex from #43 to #171.

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.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #537 in England and Wales in 2003. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

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Popularity journey

Anish across 2 official records

Anish by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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