# Aneesh (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/aneesh/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | Hindi |
| Meaning | “paramount”, “supreme”, “having no lord/master” |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | Anish |
| US babies named this | 920 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 920 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 72, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

Transliteration of Hindi अनीश (anīś, “paramount, supreme”, literally “having no lord/master”).

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 39 | 2,961 |
| 2011 | 44 | 2,701 |
| 2012 | 46 | 2,635 |
| 2013 | 32 | 3,342 |
| 2014 | 32 | 3,379 |
| 2015 | 32 | 3,435 |
| 2016 | 19 | 4,955 |
| 2017 | 19 | 4,952 |
| 2018 | 22 | 4,488 |
| 2019 | 15 | 5,833 |
| 2020 | 14 | 5,999 |
| 2021 | 8 | 8,883 |
| 2023 | 5 | 12,368 |
| 2024 | 5 | 12,474 |
| 2025 | 5 | 12,151 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 3 | 2,863 |
| 1998 | 3 | 2,901 |
| 1999 | 6 | 1,850 |
| 2000 | 3 | 3,036 |
| 2001 | 4 | 2,587 |
| 2002 | 3 | 3,225 |
| 2005 | 5 | 2,754 |
| 2007 | 6 | 2,741 |
| 2008 | 7 | 2,507 |
| 2009 | 4 | 3,744 |
| 2010 | 7 | 2,629 |
| 2011 | 4 | 3,830 |
| 2013 | 8 | 2,403 |
| 2015 | 4 | 3,908 |
| 2017 | 5 | 3,449 |

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.