Given name
Anurag
“a higher love, as of music or art”
Anurag is a masculine given name from Sanskrit, meaning “a higher love, as of music or art.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Anurag means “a higher love, as of music or art.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Sanskrit अनुराग (“a higher love, as of music or art”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1972. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Anurag through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 244
- 244 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2006
- 19 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 10 in 2017. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 19 in 2006. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,762 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.
Anurag’s family of names
Anurag may belong to the same name family as ANNURAG. This is a tentative spelling connection.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Anurag
- Anurag KashyapIndian filmmaker (born 1972)
- Anurag ThakurIndian politicianborn 1974
- Anurag BasuIndian filmmaker and actor (born 1970)
- Anurag AcharyaIndian-American engineerborn 2000
- Anurag SinghIndian film directorborn 1976
- Anurag AgrawalIndian pulmonologistborn 1972
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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