Anil

given name · Hindi · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Anil is a given name, most frequently recorded in India, where it is the 21st most common given name. It appears chiefly in Hindi and , written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Sanskrit: ‘air’, ‘wind’, one of the commonest names of the wind god Vayu, charioteer of Indra.

rarermore common
  • INIndia1 in 463◐
  • GBUnited Kingdom1 in 20K
  • MYMalaysia1 in 21K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈11K ●

across 8 countries

#333 ●

of 16M given names

6 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
352 ●

2.5M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 1.4K ◐

Guyana

Spellings & scripts●

AnilLatin · Hindi●6.5M records
অনিলBengali · Bangla●4.5K records
안일Hangul · Korean●79 records
อาร์นิลThai · Thai●2 records
అనీలTelugu · Telugu●1 records
ଅନଲOdia · Odia●0 records

Locally spelled Aneel in PK Pakistan and Anala in PH Philippines.

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●

Sanskrit: ‘air’, ‘wind’, one of the commonest names of the wind god Vayu, charioteer of Indra. Feminine form: Anila.

Sources 1

  • A concise dictionary of first names

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Anil is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India#217,026,9322.4M rec.—4.2KAnil309
GB United Kingdom—10,1344.4K rec.——Anil158
US United States—7,41156K rec.1 in 45K7.4KAnil352
TR Türkiye—5,3945.4K rec.——Anil81
PK Pakistan#7434,455355 rec.——Aneel51
MY Malaysia—3,0311.5K rec.——Anil47
CA Canada—2,6172.5K rec.—1Anil134
BR Brazil—1,773△136 rec.1 in 119K1.8KAnil33
ID Indonesia—1,662995 rec.——Anil80
NL Netherlands—1,022688 rec.—listedAnil75
NP Nepal—8922.4K rec.——Anil86
BD Bangladesh#934795232 rec.—listedAnil35

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Hindi6.5M74%
  • 1.4M16%
  • English242K3%
  • Telugu84K1%
  • Assamese84K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Hindi6,483,28674%
1,376,37316%
English241,5563%
Telugu83,8591%
Assamese83,8481%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Anil is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate given name1.4M records spelled Anil5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Türkiye, United Kingdom

    Also written Aníl, Anīl, An̲il, Añil

  • English given name285K records spelled Anil29 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Australia, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Anyl, Añil, Ãñîl, Åñíl, Áñíl

  • Arabic given name34K records spelled Anil4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Qatar

    Languages: Arabic, Hebrew, Amharic

    Also written אניל

  • Russian given name9.4K records spelled Anil29 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Poland, Russia, United States

    Languages: Russian, Polish, Croatian

    Also written Анил, Аниль, Аніл, Аніль, Añil

  • a separate name7.5K records spelled Anil4 spellings in the group

    Also written અનિલ, Anila, Aneel

  • Greek given name769 records spelled Anil2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Greece, United States, United Kingdom

    Also written Ανιλ

  • a separate given name759 records spelled Anil15 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Türkiye, United Kingdom

    Also written Anîl, Aníl, Ánil, Ãñïl, Åñïl

43 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Anil is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In German, aus Indien stammender männl. Vom. (sanskrit. anüa »Luft, Wind«), Beiname des

    as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

  • Innocent,

    as a nameDictionary of Islamic Names

  • In Akan, giiycw [n'ani ye hyew] hardiness, rashness, ficrcene^, nu

    as a wordDictionary of the Asante and Fante Language called Tshi (Chwee, Twi)

  • In English, The indigo shrub; or the indigo dye obtained from the plant.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In ivv, indigo, blue dye

    as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

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●

020K40K60K19001950200051K · 1993

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Anil in naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls), India, 1896–2017
Yearrecords
18961
189955
19008
19015
19121
19132
19141
19154
191614
191713
191838
191939
1920187
192162
192280
1923270
192480
192571
192622
192727
192829
192955
193023
193138
193250
193351
193471
193576
193678
193790
1938127
1939144
1940171
1941195
1942244
1943228
1944344
1945412
1946500
1947667
1948690
1949724
19501,225
19511,373
19521,894
19531,634
19542,694
19552,713
19563,454
19574,595
19584,833
19596,534
19606,644
19617,316
196210,602
19639,497
196412,534
196512,093
196614,448
196716,040
196815,841
196917,690
197020,021
197119,479
197223,770
197323,096
197425,601
197526,023
197630,106
197725,679
197826,744
197928,454
198024,581
198133,408
198241,123
198343,749
198446,703
198544,611
198637,180
198746,272
198843,729
198943,419
199044,922
199147,856
199250,251
199351,445
199443,473
199538,014
199620,066
199718,457
199812,155
1999769
200035
200118
200210
20034
20052
20064
200730
20083,776
20099
20101,929
2011191
2012284
2013370
20147,358
20151,725
201613
201723

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 109 years between 1896–2017. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

19401950196019701980Anil Kumar Gupta, b. 1949Anil Devgan, b. 1949Anil Dhawan, b. 1950Anil Sharma, b. 1955Anil Kapoor, b. 1956Anil Ambani, b. 1959Anil Kumble, b. 1970Anil Kumar Sharma, b. 1971Anil Menon, b. 1976

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 75 sources across 41 countries.

Official registers attesting Anil
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20207.4K#2,991
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—4.2K#1,787
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)2024575#1,788
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020525#44,135
GY GuyanaGuyana — Official List of Electors July 20252025519#176
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)—504#1,151
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)2026435#758
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—379#795
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—327#3,349
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010294#67,126
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—284#4,067
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—212#3,368

Reference works 5

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 523 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Anil?
We estimate roughly 11 thousand people bear Anil (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
In which country does Anil have the most bearers?
Anil is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled anil.
How common is Anil compared with other names?
In India, Anil is the 21st most common given name of 4,777,337 given names recorded there.
Is Anil a male or female name?
Anil is a male 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 Anil mean?
Recorded meaning: Sanskrit: ‘air’, ‘wind’, one of the commonest names of the wind god Vayu, charioteer of Indra.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

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, “Anil” — the 21st most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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