Ànand
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Ànand is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. In Thailand it is the 42nd most common given name. Recorded meaning: From Sanskrit आनन्द (ānanda, “joy, delight, pleasure”). Ànand is also written อิน in Thai, আনন্দ in Bengali and Ананда in Cyrillic.
- INIndia≈1 in 1.3K(inferred from the name graph)
- GYGuyana1 in 1.5K
- AEUnited Arab Emirates≈1 in 4.1Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Ànand itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- 8 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 351 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,100,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
India, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Ànand in other scripts: Latin, Thai, Bengali and 5 more
(measured from records)13 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Ananda in IN India, BR Brazil, US United States and 2 more, อนันต์ in TH Thailand and Anan in ID Indonesia.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)From Sanskrit आनन्द (ānanda, “joy, delight, pleasure”).
Cited for this meaning 4
- A Genealogists Guide to Indian Names A Reference for First Names from India
- A concise dictionary of first names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Ànand counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | #385 | ≈1,100,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | 21K | Ananda | 314 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈130,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.2K | listed | Anan | 83 |
| TH Thailand | #42 | ≈84,000 est. | ≈1 in 858 | register #150,191 | อนันต์ | 151 |
| BR Brazil | — | 17,323as Ananda | 1 in 12K | 17K | Ananda | 34 |
| US United States | — | 10,800as An | 1 in 31K | 9.4K | Ananda | 351 |
| LK Sri Lanka | #180 | ≈7,600 est. | ≈1 in 2.9K | — | Ananda | 51 |
| GY Guyana | — | 485 | 1 in 1.5K | 485 | Ananda | 5 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ànand mean, and where does it come from?
- From Sanskrit आनन्द (ānanda, “joy, delight, pleasure”). Recorded by A Genealogists Guide to Indian Names A Reference for First Names from India and A concise dictionary of first names and 2 other sources.
- Is Ànand a male or female name?
- Ànand 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.
- Which countries have the most people named Ànand?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.1 million people named Ànand in India, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ananda. After it come Indonesia, Thailand, Brazil and United States; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Ànand?
- In Guyana, the national register counted 485 people named Ànand in 2025, about 1 in 1.5 thousand residents.
- How common is Ànand compared with other names?
- In India, Ànand is the 385th most common given name of 3,760,348 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C3%A0nandThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Ànand” — ranked 573rd in India (Instate). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.