Anuar
given name · Malay · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Anuar is a given name, most frequently recorded in Malaysia, where it is the 80th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Malay and Spanish, written in the Latin script.
- MYMalaysia1 in 1.7K◐
- KZKazakhstan1 in 2K
- IDIndonesia1 in 75K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈23K ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 101 ●
- 1 in 2.0K ◐
across 13 countries
recorded for this name
63K records
Official registry-verified
Kazakhstan
Spellings & scripts●
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Ануар in KZ Kazakhstan, RU Russia, KG Kyrgyzstan and 4 more, Anwar in NL Netherlands, Anouar in BE Belgium and Анвар in BG Bulgaria.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 4 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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MY Malaysia | #80 | 38,227 | 34K rec. | — | 3.1K | Anuar | 92 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | #339 | 9,486 | 20K rec. | 1 in 2K | 9.5K | Ануар | 47 |
| RU Russia | — | 7,940 | 4K rec. | — | #154 | Ануар | 101 |
| US United States | — | 4,239△ | 484 rec. | 1 in 78K | 4.2K | Anuar | 40 |
| ES Spain | — | 2,678△ | 314 rec. | 1 in 19K | 2.7K | Anuar | 29 |
| FR France | — | 2,005△ | 2 rec. | 1 in 34K | 2K | — | 1 |
| SE Sweden | — | 1,525△ | 5 rec. | 1 in 6.7K | 1.5K | — | 3 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 1,409△ | 19 rec. | 1 in 12K | 1.4K | Anwar | 3 |
| ID Indonesia | — | 1,209 | 2K rec. | — | — | Anuar | 63 |
| PH Philippines | — | 501 | 502 rec. | — | — | Anuar | 13 |
| AL Albania | — | 410 | — | 1 in 7.5K | 410 | — | — |
| BR Brazil | — | 335 | — | 1 in 632K | 410 | — | — |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Malay32K32%
- Spanish19K19%
- English14K15%
- Indonesian9.2K9%
- Portuguese5.7K6%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Malay | 31,933 | 32% |
| Spanish | 18,890 | 19% |
| English | 14,376 | 15% |
| Indonesian | 9,185 | 9% |
| Portuguese | 5,733 | 6% |
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●
Anuar 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 Romanian, directory
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Romanian, ANUÁR, anuare, s. n. Publicație periodică anuală care prezintă activitatea unei instituții, întreprinderi etc. sau care conține studii științifice. ♦ Publicație anuală a unei instituții științifice. [Pr.: -nu-ar].
as a wordDEX online (dexonline.ro) - DEX '96 / DEX '98 definitions with etymology
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●
Show as table
| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1981 | 5 |
| 1988 | 5 |
| 1990 | 9 |
| 1991 | 6 |
| 1994 | 7 |
| 1996 | 8 |
| 1999 | 7 |
| 2000 | 8 |
| 2001 | 10 |
| 2002 | 5 |
| 2003 | 11 |
| 2004 | 14 |
| 2005 | 19 |
| 2006 | 10 |
| 2007 | 13 |
| 2009 | 18 |
| 2010 | 10 |
| 2011 | 13 |
| 2012 | 9 |
| 2013 | 6 |
| 2014 | 5 |
| 2015 | 5 |
| 2016 | 15 |
| 2017 | 15 |
| 2018 | 14 |
| 2019 | 13 |
| 2020 | 8 |
| 2021 | 18 |
| 2022 | 7 |
| 2023 | 14 |
| 2024 | 15 |
| 2025 | 7 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 32 years between 1981–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Anuar Battistib. 1953BRBrazilian archbishop
- Anuar Zainb. 1970MYMalaysian actor and singer (born 1970)
- Anuar Abu Bakarb. 1971MYMalaysian footballer (1971-2019)
- Anuar Aoulad Abdelkrimb. 1978NLDutch cabaret artist
- Anuar Guerrerob. 1979COColombian footballer
- Anuar Musafirovb. 1980KZbadminton player
- Afaz Naturalb. 1984COnot in their usual nameColombian singer
- Anuar Mananb. 1986MYMalaysian cyclist
- Anuar Tuhamib. 1995ESSpanish footballer
- Anuar Kananb. 1995MXMexican association football player
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 53 sources across 32 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MY Malaysia | data.gov.my — Baby Name Popularity Dashboard (HTML-embedded JSON) | — | 3.1K | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | — | 3K | #207 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 770 | #3,430 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 672 | #1,694 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 537 | #19,442 |
| AL Albania | INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts) | — | 410 | #1,077 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 410 | #7,038 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 403 | #16,388 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 335 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 333 | #17,651 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024) | 2024 | 117 | #536 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 75 | #6,104 |
Reference works 2
- 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 · 353 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Anuar?
- We estimate roughly 23 thousand people bear Anuar (counting its spellings and scripts) across 13 countries in our records.
- In which country does Anuar have the most bearers?
- Anuar is most frequently recorded in Malaysia, where it is most often spelled anuar.
- How common is Anuar compared with other names?
- In Malaysia, Anuar is the 80th most common given name of 325,158 given names recorded there.
- Is Anuar a male or female name?
- Anuar 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.
Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/anuarThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use. Bulk access and licensing.
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, “Anuar” — the 80th most common given name in Malaysia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.