Anuar
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/anuar/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Anuar is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Malaysia than in any other country, where it is the 87th most common given name.
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 3K(inferred from the name graph)
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 42K
- KZKazakhstan≈1 in 1.9Kas Ануар
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 Anuar 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.
- Malaysia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 114 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈11,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Malaysia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Ануар in KZ Kazakhstan and Anwar in NL Netherlands.
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
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(measured from records)
Anuar 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MY Malaysia | #87 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 3K | 3.1K | Anuar | 114 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | #326 | ≈9,900 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | 9.5K | Ануар | 55 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈6,400 est. | ≈1 in 42K | — | Anuar | 67 |
| US United States | — | 4,874as Anwar | 1 in 68K | 4.2K | Anuar | 34 |
| ES Spain | — | 2,678as Anouar | 1 in 19K | 2.7K | Anuar | 27 |
| SE Sweden | — | 1,525as Anwar | 1 in 6.7K | 1.5K | — | 2 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 1,409as Anouar | 1 in 12K | 1.4K | Anwar | 3 |
| AL Albania | — | 419 | 1 in 7.3K | 410 | — | — |
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: Bureau of National Statistics — birth registrations; data.gov.my — Name Popularity Dashboard (JPN, by decade and ethnicity); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts). 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)
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 54 sources across 32 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 55 | #12,787 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 43 | — |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 20 | #11,716 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 11 | #27,267 |
| AL Albania | INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts) | — | 9 | #1,077 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 7 | #19,442 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 7 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2010 | — | — |
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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Anuar?
- A machine transcription gives /anuar/ (IPA) for Malay.
- 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.
- In which country does Anuar have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 11 thousand people named Anuar in Malaysia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled anuar.
- How common is the name Anuar?
- In Albania, the national register counted 419 people named Anuar, about 1 in 7.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Anuar compared with other names?
- In Malaysia, Anuar is the 87th most common given name of 388,685 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Anuar?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/anuarThe 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, “Anuar” — the 87th most common given name in Malaysia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.