Anele
given name · Lithuanian · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Anele is a given name, with more bearers in Lithuania than in any other country, where it is the 78th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Lithuanian and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: To anoint; to give extreme unction with oil.
- LTLithuania1 in 153◐
- BRBrazil1 in 1.9M
- LVLatvia1 in 43K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈18K ●
- Sources
- 38 ●
- 1 in 153 ◐
across 9 countries
2.0K records
Official registry-verified
Lithuania
Spellings & scripts●
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
To anoint; to give extreme unction with oil.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LT Lithuania | #78 | 17,823△ | 44 rec. | 1 in 153 | 18K | Anele | 16 |
| ZA South Africa | — | 619 | 588 rec. | — | listed | Anele | 19 |
| MX Mexico | — | 458 | 423 rec. | — | 2 | Anele | 22 |
| VE Venezuela | — | 162 | 160 rec. | — | — | Anele | 8 |
| AR Argentina | — | 154 | 162 rec. | — | 2 | Anele | 19 |
| US United States | — | 120 | 151 rec. | 1 in 2.8M | 120 | Anele | 38 |
| BR Brazil | — | 109 | 197 rec. | 1 in 1.9M | 109 | Anele | 31 |
| PH Philippines | — | 103 | 53 rec. | — | — | Anele | 12 |
| PE Peru | — | 54 | 43 rec. | — | — | Anele | 9 |
| LV Latvia | — | 44△ | 1 rec. | 1 in 43K | 44 | Anele | 4 |
| NG Nigeria | — | 36 | 49 rec. | — | — | Anele | 11 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 23 | 24 rec. | — | — | Anele | 2 |
Roughly 18K people in Lithuania bear this name (about 1 in 153). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Lithuanian36K64%
- English9.1K16%
- Swahili2.3K4%
- Spanish1.5K3%
- Portuguese1.3K2%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Lithuanian | 35,729 | 64% |
| English | 9,107 | 16% |
| Swahili | 2,280 | 4% |
| Spanish | 1,463 | 3% |
| Portuguese | 1,283 | 2% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Anele is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Portuguese, inflection of anelar:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Finnish, inflection of anella:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 2003 | 5 |
| 2004 | 6 |
| 2008 | 5 |
| 2012 | 6 |
| 2013 | 7 |
| 2014 | 8 |
| 2015 | 6 |
| 2020 | 5 |
| 2023 | 6 |
| 2025 | 6 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 10 years between 2003–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Anelė Čepukienėb. 1904LTLithuanian writer
- Anele Mdodab. 1984ZASouth African film director
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 28 sources across 20 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 153 | #45,615 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 120 | #48,513 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 109 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 107 | #38,860 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 85 | #24,695 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1980 | 78 | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 55 | #7,455 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 55 | #7,961 |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register) | — | 44 | — |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup) | — | 43 | #1,732 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 42 | #51,324 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1980 | 31 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 58 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Anele?
- We estimate roughly 18 thousand people bear Anele (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
- In which country does Anele have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 18 thousand people bear Anele in Lithuania, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled anele.
- Where is Anele most common?
- Anele is densest in Lithuania, where the national register counts about 1 in 153 people carrying it.
- How common is Anele compared with other names?
- In Lithuania, Anele is the 78th most common given name of 5,871 given names recorded there.
- Is Anele a male or female name?
- Anele is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Anele mean?
- Recorded meaning: To anoint; to give extreme unction with oil.
Query this name via API
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Anele” — the 78th most common given name in Lithuania. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.