Given name
Aneesh
“having no lord/master”
Aneesh is a masculine given name from Hindi, meaning “having no lord/master.”
Meaning & origin
How it developed
A transliteration of Hindi अनीश (“having no lord/master”); its root is Sanskrit ईश्.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1975. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Aneesh through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 920
- 920 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2005
- 65 babies
- 2025
- 5
- #12,151 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −74%
- Cooling
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 5 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 12,151 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 65 in 2005. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,219 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Aneesh’s family of names
In English usage, Aneesh has a related form in ANISH.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
People named Aneesh
- Aneesh ShethIndian-American transgender actressborn 1982
- Aneesh ChopraChief Technology Officer of the United Statesborn 1972
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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