Anwar

maleStatistical record

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

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

Anwar: Recorded since 1967, it reached #446 in 2003, and it stood at #1,307 in 2025.

2registrars recorded it
55times a registrar ranked it
59years from first to last
#446highest recorded position
11groupings it qualifies for

Region

Trend unknown

among girls in England and Wales · 1996

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#3795

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

Trend unknownEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among boys in Norway in 24 of the 49 years from 1967 to 2015.

In 2015: #485 among boys in Norway, #1186 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1967–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1967
First recorded at #486 among boys in Norway in 1967 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Boys
Highest recorded1967–2015
Highest recorded position: #446 among boys in Norway, in 2003 (recorded 1967–2015).
Norway · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #1307 among boys in England and Wales, in 2025.
England and Wales · Boys

Anwar appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, with 30 ranked years and 480 births registered; the earliest is Norway · Boys, from 1967.

Anwar 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.

Anwar'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
Norway · Boys	#486 (1967)	#446 (2003)	#485 (2015)	24 of 49	124 (1967–2015)	8 (1980)
England and Wales · Boys	#1235 (1996)	#793 (2006)	#1307 (2025)	30 of 30	480 (1996–2025)	32 (2006)

Anwar 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 Anwar in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	56	4 of 10	14
2000sbusiest	172	10 of 10	17
2010s	157	10 of 10	16
2020s	95	6 of 10	16

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 17 births a year.

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

Anwar 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 1967 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #446 in Norway in 2003.

Anwar'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
2025	England and Wales	male	#1307	21	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#1595	16	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#1533	16	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#1609	15	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#2125	10	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#1431	17	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#1506	16	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#2112	10	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#2052	11	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#1570	16	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	#1617	14	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#1270	20	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#1522	15	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#1407	17	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#1358	17	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#1596	13	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#1053	23	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#793	32	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#982	22	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#1110	17	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#1132	15	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#1519	9	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#1135	13	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#1241	11	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#1027	14	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#850	18	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#1010	14	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#3795	3	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#1235	10	High	Verified
2015	Norway	male	#485	5	High	Verified
2007	Norway	male	#544	4	High	Verified
2004	Norway	male	#543	4	High	Verified
2003	Norway	male	#446	6	High	Verified
1999	Norway	male	#496	5	High	Verified
1997	Norway	male	#490	5	High	Verified
1996	Norway	male	#562	4	High	Verified
1993	Norway	male	#580	4	High	Verified
1992	Norway	male	#579	4	High	Verified
1991	Norway	male	#606	4	High	Verified
1990	Norway	male	#603	4	High	Verified
1989	Norway	male	#522	6	High	Verified
1986	Norway	male	#609	4	High	Verified
1985	Norway	male	#530	6	High	Verified
1984	Norway	male	#574	5	High	Verified
1983	Norway	male	#520	6	High	Verified
1982	Norway	male	#459	8	High	Verified
1980	Norway	male	#452	8	High	Verified
1978	Norway	male	#547	5	High	Verified
1977	Norway	male	#495	6	High	Verified
1976	Norway	male	#505	6	High	Verified
1972	Norway	male	#543	5	High	Verified
1971	Norway	male	#546	5	High	Verified
1967	Norway	male	#486	5	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Norway hub — collected by Statistics Norway (SSB)

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

Where Anwar is officially recorded

2 official registrars have recorded Anwar, between 1967 and 2025, in 47 of those 59 years. Each registrar publishes for its own population on its own methodology, so the positions below are each one country's own ranking and are not comparable with one another.

Registrar	Recorded	Years	Its own highest position
Norway	1967–2015	24	#446 in 2003
England and Wales	1996–2025	30	#793 in 2006

No registrar recorded it for 3 years after 1967; it appears again in 1971.

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1967 and 2025, ranked in 47 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #446, first reached in 2003.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 32 births, registered in England and Wales in 2006.

Its record falls into 7 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 3 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 29 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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Anwen · #763, 30y
Anwyn · #2862, 16y

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.

Saleh · #445, 44y
Seyed · #395, 50y
Estelle · #391, 42y
Rina · #391, 51y

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1960 and 1969.

Saleh · #445, 44y
Celestine · #443, 22y
Isolde · #443, 28y
Oona · #443, 31y

Anwar was ranked #446 in Norway · 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.

Abdi#442
Abdulrahman#443
Andres#444
Andrew#445
Asgeir#447
Birger#448
Brynjar#449
Carlos#450

Anwar 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 2,577 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Anwar without appearing here.

Anwar moved ahead of

Graham
In 2023 they stood at #1533 and #1533 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #1595 and #5119.
Kim
In 2002 they stood at #1519 and #1519 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2003 that had become #1132 and #2189.
Shannon
In 1996 they stood at #1235 and #1168 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1997 that had become #1010 and #1761.
Wayne
In 2021 they stood at #2125 and #2125 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2022 that had become #1609 and #2320.

Moved ahead of Anwar

Ronny
In 2007 they stood at #1053 and #1201 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2008 that had become #1596 and #789.
Hudson
In 2006 they stood at #793 and #885 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2007 that had become #1053 and #538.
Magnus
In 2006 they stood at #793 and #863 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2007 that had become #1053 and #584.
Cooper
In 2003 they stood at #1132 and #1248 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2004 that had become #1110 and #731.

Moved the opposite way to Anwar

Isak
Between 1998 and 2025 in England and Wales · Boys, Anwar went from #850 to #1307 while Isak went from #2419 to #1307.
Aksel
Between 2006 and 2025 in England and Wales · Boys, Anwar went from #793 to #1307 while Aksel went from #4052 to #1798.

Moved the same way as Anwar

Kelly
Between 1997 and 2023 in England and Wales · Boys, Anwar went from #1010 to #1533 and Kelly from #1454 to #3523.
Ole
Between 1998 and 2022 in England and Wales · Boys, Anwar went from #850 to #1609 and Ole from #2901 to #4789.

What's not yet available

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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 1967 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #446 in Norway in 2003. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Anwar

Anwar at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Anwar across 2 official records

Anwar by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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