Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Anish isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1970. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Anish through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 3,109
- 3,109 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2010
- 184 babies
- 2025
- 13
- #6,473 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −54%
- Cooling
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 13 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 6,473 among boys’ names. Average annual use for boys was 54.3% lower in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for boys was 184 in 2010. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 4,400 as a first name in 2020; 270 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Anish’s family of names
In English usage, Anish has a related form in ANEESH.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Anish
- Anish GiriDutch chess playerborn 1994
- Anish KapoorBritish-Indian artist (born 1954)
- Anish SarkarIndian chess playerborn 2021
- Stuart SempleBritish artistborn 1980
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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