Anand
loc · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Anand is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Indonesia than in any other country. In Thailand it is the 42nd most common given name. Recorded meaning: Sanskrit: ‘happiness’, ‘blissconsciousness’, a byname of Shiva; also a Buddhist and Jain divine attribute.
- THThailand≈1 in 922as อนันต์(inferred from the name graph)
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 3.3Kas Ananda
- GYGuyana1 in 1.5K
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 Anand itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Indonesia (inferred from the name graph)
- 8 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 351 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈82,000 named Ananda, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
12 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Ananda in BR Brazil, BD Bangladesh, LK Sri Lanka and 2 more, Anan in ID Indonesia, CN China and อนันต์ in TH Thailand.
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)
Sanskrit: ‘happiness’, ‘blissconsciousness’, a byname of Shiva; also a Buddhist and Jain divine attribute. Feminine form: Ananda.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Anand 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈82,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.3K | listed | Anan | 83 |
| TH Thailand | #42 | ≈75,000 est. | ≈1 in 922 | #150,191 | อนันต์ | 151 |
| CN China | — | ≈31,000 est. | ≈1 in 45K | — | Anan | 18 |
| BR Brazil | — | 17,323as Ananda | 1 in 12K | 17K | Ananda | 34 |
| BD Bangladesh | #869 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Ananda | 38 |
| LK Sri Lanka | #180 | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.2K | — | Ananda | 51 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈3,200 est. | ≈1 in 3.2K | — | Ananda | 27 |
| 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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Anand is also recorded in 3 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. änanda »Glück, Freude«).
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
happiness
as a nameA Genealogists Guide to Indian Names A Reference for First Names from India
In English, A male given name from Sanskrit.
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Mulk Raj Anandb. 1905INIndian English writer (1905–2004)
- Chetan Anandb. 1921INHindi film producer, screenwriter and director (1915–1997)
- Dev Anandb. 1923INIndian actor, producer, director
- Anand Panyarachunb. 1932THThai politician
- Anand Satyanandb. 1944NZ19th Governor General of New Zealand
- Ma Anand Sheelab. 1949INformer chief assistant for the Indian mystic Rajneesh
- Anand Tuckerb. 1963THBritish film director and producer
- Anita Anandb. 1967CACanadian politician and professor (born 1967)
- Viswanathan Anandb. 1969INIndian chess grandmaster
- Priya Anandb. 1986INIndian actress
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(measured from records)
Attested in 70 sources across 37 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 485 | #194 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 26 | — |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname 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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Anand come from?
- Sanskrit: ‘happiness’, ‘blissconsciousness’, a byname of Shiva; also a Buddhist and Jain divine attribute. Feminine form: Ananda. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- What does the name Anand mean?
- Recorded meaning: Sanskrit: ‘happiness’, ‘blissconsciousness’, a byname of Shiva; also a Buddhist and Jain divine attribute.
- In which country does Anand have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 82 thousand people named Ananda in Indonesia, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Anand most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Anand is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 1.5 thousand people — even though Indonesia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Anand?
- In Guyana, the national register counted 485 people named Anand in 2025, about 1 in 1.5 thousand residents.
- How common is Anand compared with other names?
- In Thailand, Anand is the 42nd most common given name of 488,147 given names recorded there.
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curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/anandThe 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; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Anand” — the 42nd most common given name in Thailand. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.