Anish
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in English: Alternative form of Aneesh
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 19 countries · latest register: SSA, 2025
Anish is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- NPNepal≈1 in 540few records(inferred from the name graph)
- BHBahrain≈1 in 4.3Kfew records
- AEUnited Arab Emirates≈1 in 5.4Kfew 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 Anish 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)
- Record sources
- 299 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 540 (inferred from the name graph)
≈200,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Nepal, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Alternative form of Aneesh.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
How Anish is read
(measured from records)Anish is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Hindi77%
without a master
as a nameA Genealogists Guide to Indian Names A Reference for First Names from India
- English6.9%
Alternative form of Aneesh.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Anish 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 | — | ≈200,000 est. | ≈1 in 7.1K | 1.3K | Anish | 253 |
| NP Nepal | — | ≈55,000 est. | ≈1 in 540 | — | Anish | 78 |
| US United States | — | 4,400 | 1 in 76K | 4.4K | Anish | 299 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #396 | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.4K | — | Anish | 74 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 169K | — | Anish | 27 |
| QA Qatar | #332 | ≈460 est. | ≈1 in 6.2K | — | Anish | 26 |
| BH Bahrain | #151 | ≈370 est. | ≈1 in 4.3K | — | Anish | 22 |
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; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex. 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Anish Kapoorb. 1954GBBritish-Indian artist (born 1954)
- Anish Ghoshb. 1979INIndian mathematician
- Stuart Sempleb. 1980GBnot in their usual nameBritish artist
- Anish Shardab. 1982USAmerican basketball player (born 1982)
- Anish Soodb. 1989INIndian Electronic dance music producer and DJ
- Anish Girib. 1994RUDutch chess 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)41 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 4.4K | #4,310 |
| IN India | India Names Dataset — Andhra Pradesh Electoral Rolls (Internet Archive) | — | 1.2K | #2,906 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 36 | #4,310 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 13 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 2015 | 4 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 2017 | 1 | — |
| IN India | A Genealogist's Guide to Indian Names (Ellefson, 2002) | — | — | — |
| IN India | Indian names with gender (Kaggle) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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
- What does the name Anish mean, and where does it come from?
- Alternative form of Aneesh. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Anish a male or female name?
- Anish is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: United States (Census Bureau, 2020), India (India Names Dataset) and Netherlands (Meertens NVB).
- In which country does Anish have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 204 thousand people named Anish in India, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled anish.
- How common is the name Anish?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,400 people named Anish in 2020, about 1 in 76 thousand residents.
- How common is Anish compared with other names?
- In Bahrain, Anish is the 151st most common given name of 6,583 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/anishThe 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, “Anish” — the 151st most common given name in Bahrain. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.