Given name & surname

Anoop

Anoop is a masculine given name from Sanskrit.

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Anoop comes from Sanskrit.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

From Sanskrit अनूप.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

The story

Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1978. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.

From dated birth records

Anoop through the years

Babies since 1880
247
211 boys · 36 girls
Most popular year
2008
17 babies
2025
0
Outside the ranked list
2021–25 vs 2016–20
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Too few births to compare
Boys Girls
0246198020002025Highest share 2001Boys 0.0Girls 0.0
Anoop in U.S. Social Security birth records, 1978–2025, per million births of each sex. Years with fewer than five births for a sex are not published and appear as zero. Use the arrow keys to step through years.

By the numbers

The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 6 in 2022. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,300 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.

Anoop’s family of names

In English usage, Anoop has a related form in ANUP. In English usage, Anoop has a related form in ANUP.

Walk Anoop’s family in the name graph

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The ring: nicknames and forms.

Hover or tab through the constellation to see how each name is related. Bigger dots are names more people in the U.S. share.

Nicknames & forms 1

Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.

People named Anoop

Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.

Similar names

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Sibling ideas

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