Anuj

Last seen for boys in 2022 at #12,330

Peak · boys
1979 · 22 births
Debut · boys
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
937
since 1969

Anuj over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Anuj has never cracked the top 2,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201969peak #2,236, 1979boys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yearboys
rankbirths
2025
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2022#12,3305
2021#12,1465
2020#8,0679
2019#5,55516
2018#8,8198
2017#5,29717
2016#4,94319
2015#4,71120
2014#5,73315
2013#4,80419
2012#5,72015
2011#4,82219
2010#5,04718
2009#4,03525
2008#2,78843
2007#4,80819
2006#2,57846
2005#3,09133
2004#2,88735
2003#5,03515
2002#2,81733
2001#3,22827
2000#2,62135
1999#3,10326
1998#3,48621
1997#2,98125
1996#4,18515
1995#3,85416
1994#4,29014
1993#4,02015
1992#2,83424
1991#3,10520
1990#3,16619
1989#3,44616
1988#3,70513
1987#2,94217
1986#3,26814
1985#2,59819
1984#2,82416
1983#2,40820
1982#2,26922
1981#2,56918
1980#3,09814
1979#2,23622
1978#3,8579
1977#3,60610
1976#4,0128
1975#4,3097
1974#5,2275
1973#5,1015
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First appearance
1969

The first year at least five boys were named Anuj! It came in at #4,404, and was given to 5 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1969–1970, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

See more about Anuj
Momentum · boys
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 2022
Rise & fade · boys
10 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1969
  • Peaked 1979 at #2,236 (22 births)
  • Births halved by 2018, 39 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 44,680
  • Highest: 1 in 44,680 boys born in 2006 were named Anuj (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 349,202 boys born in 2022 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #2,236 in 1979, was only 1 in 78,252 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2000s
  • 33.2% of all boys named Anuj (311) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1960s5#4,404 (1969)#4,404
1970s72#2,236 (1979)#4,090
1980s169#2,269 (1982)#2,913
1990s195#2,834 (1992)#3,502
2000s311#2,578 (2006)#3,389
2010s166#4,711 (2015)#5,545
2020s19#8,067 (2020)#10,848

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.

Anuj in 1969

boys
#4,404
5 births · 1 in 357,635 boys

Top boys' names in 1969

  1. #1Michael85,162
  2. #2David63,672
  3. #3James59,886
  4. #4John58,732
  5. #5Robert58,300
  6. #6William37,607
  7. #7Christopher35,672
  8. #8Mark33,388
  9. #9Brian31,669
  10. #10Richard31,085
  11. #4,404Anuj5
More about 1969

boys

1,788,174 boys got a published name in 1969; 1 in 357,635 of them was named Anuj, which outranked 12.7% of the 5,043 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 27.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Anuj
  1. #3,935Zach6
  2. #3,935Zeb6
  3. #3,935Zenon6
  4. #4,404Anuj5
  5. #4,404Abbott5
  6. #4,404Adrean5
  7. #4,404Adrin5

Tied with 639 names at #4,404; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1968
Risers
  1. 1,735Dedric#2,735#1,000
  2. 780Jameson#1,731#951
  3. 589Torrey#1,393#804
  4. 549Jamison#1,258#709
  5. 534Jemal#1,083#549
Fallers
  1. 449Artis#877#1,326
  2. 410Kennedy#986#1,396
  3. 408Alfie#968#1,376
  4. 360Micky#861#1,221
  5. 356Montgomery#946#1,302

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1969