Given name
Anuar
Anuar is a masculine given name from Arabic. It is used in Albanian.
Original Arabicأنور
Meaning & origin
How it developed
Anuar developed from أنور.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1981. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Anuar through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 329
- 329 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2005
- 19 babies
- 2025
- 7
- #9,785 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −6%
- Steady
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 7 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 9,785 among boys’ names. Average annual use for boys was 6.2% lower in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for boys was 19 in 2005. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 544 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.
Anuar’s family of names
Anuar developed from the Arabic form أنور. Anuar has a related form in Anwar.
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 Anuar
- Anuar TuhamiSpanish footballerborn 1995
- Anuar Abu BakarMalaysian footballer (1971-2019)
- Anuar BattistiBrazilian archbishopborn 1953
- Anuar ZainMalaysian actor and singer (born 1970)
- Anuar MananMalaysian cyclistborn 1986
- Anuar GuerreroColombian footballerborn 1979
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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