Ankit
Last seen for boys in 2020 at #12,022
- Peak · boys
- 1986 · 28 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 799since 1978
Ankit over time
Rank among boys' names. Ankit has never cracked the top 2,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | |
| 2024 | — | |
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| 2021 | — | |
| 2020 | #12,022 | 5 |
| 2019 | — | |
| 2018 | #12,156 | 5 |
| 2017 | #10,775 | 6 |
| 2016 | #6,726 | 12 |
| 2015 | #12,086 | 5 |
| 2014 | #6,632 | 12 |
| 2013 | #7,537 | 10 |
| 2012 | #8,158 | 9 |
| 2011 | #5,433 | 16 |
| 2010 | #8,139 | 9 |
| 2009 | #5,800 | 15 |
| 2008 | #5,767 | 15 |
| 2007 | #4,808 | 19 |
| 2006 | #5,303 | 16 |
| 2005 | #4,631 | 18 |
| 2004 | #4,129 | 21 |
| 2003 | #3,186 | 29 |
| 2002 | #3,450 | 25 |
| 2001 | #2,864 | 32 |
| 2000 | #3,299 | 25 |
| 1999 | #2,865 | 29 |
| 1998 | #2,199 | 41 |
| 1997 | #2,613 | 30 |
| 1996 | #2,380 | 33 |
| 1995 | #3,559 | 18 |
| 1994 | #2,219 | 36 |
| 1993 | #3,501 | 18 |
| 1992 | #2,532 | 28 |
| 1991 | #2,989 | 21 |
| 1990 | #2,308 | 30 |
| 1989 | #2,292 | 29 |
| 1988 | #2,367 | 25 |
| 1987 | #2,115 | 28 |
| 1986 | #2,057 | 28 |
| 1985 | #3,070 | 15 |
| 1984 | #2,159 | 24 |
| 1983 | #3,411 | 12 |
| 1982 | #5,003 | 7 |
| 1981 | #2,418 | 20 |
| 1980 | #3,256 | 13 |
| 1979 | #6,056 | 5 |
| 1978 | #5,772 | 5 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Ankit! It came in at #5,772, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 2018–2025, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Ankit
- Not published in 2025; last seen 2020
- Debuted 1978
- Peaked 1986 at #2,057 (28 births)
- Births halved by 2010, 24 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 46,619 boys born in 1998 were named Ankit (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 345,215 boys born in 2020 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #2,057 in 1986, was only 1 in 65,768 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 35.5% of all boys named Ankit (284) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 10 | #5,772 (1978) | #5,914 |
| 1980s | 201 | #2,057 (1986) | #2,815 |
| 1990s | 284 | #2,199 (1998) | #2,717 |
| 2000s | 215 | #2,864 (2001) | #4,324 |
| 2010s | 84 | #5,433 (2011) | #8,627 |
| 2020s | 5 | #12,022 (2020) | #12,022 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Ankit in 1978
Top boys' names in 1978
More about 1978
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1,641,837 boys got a published name in 1978; 1 in 328,367 of them was named Ankit, which outranked 14.6% of the 6,762 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.6% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 990 names at #5,772; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.