Anil

Where Anil comes from

Borrowed from Hindi अनिल (anil), Marathi अनिल (anil), Kannada ಅನಿಲ್ (anil), Tamil அனில் (aṉil), Malayalam അനിൽ (anil), Bengali অনিল (onil), Nepali अनिल (anil), Urdu اَنِیل (anīl), or Sinhalese අනිල් (anil), from Sanskrit अनिल (anila, “Hindu god of the wind”).
— Wiktionary's entry for Anil
  • Indo-Aryan
  • Turkish
  • 2 syllables
Along the way
  1. 1959
    First appearance
    #2,821 among boys, 9 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1974
    Peak, #1,370
    39 babies named Anil — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1996
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #3,549.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from the Indo-Aryan languages [in turn from Sanskrit] or from the Dravidian languages [in turn from Sanskrit]; variant form Aneel.
  • A male given name from Turkish.
Namesakes

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Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.