Ânil
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Ânil is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nepal than in any other country. In India it is the 10th most common given name. Recorded meaning: Sanskrit: ‘air’, ‘wind’, one of the commonest names of the wind god Vayu, charioteer of Indra. Feminine form: Anila.
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 11K(inferred from the name graph)
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 13K
- USUnited States1 in 44K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Ânil itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Nepal (inferred from the name graph)
- #302 (measured from records)
- 6 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 389 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 296 (inferred from the name graph)
≈100,000 people, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Nepal, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Anil in IN India, US United States, MY Malaysia and 5 more and Aneel in PK Pakistan.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Sanskrit: ‘air’, ‘wind’, one of the commonest names of the wind god Vayu, charioteer of Indra. Feminine form: Anila.
Sources 3
- A concise dictionary of first names
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- Dictionary of Islamic Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ânil counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NP Nepal | — | ≈100,000 est. | ≈1 in 296 | — | Anil | 88 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈21,000 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Anil | 87 |
| PK Pakistan | #720 | ≈9,700 est. | ≈1 in 24K | — | Aneel | 52 |
| BD Bangladesh | #746 | ≈8,200 est. | ≈1 in 20K | listed | Anil | 39 |
| LK Sri Lanka | #416 | ≈8,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.9K | — | Anil | 49 |
| US United States | — | 7,485 | 1 in 44K | 7.4K | Anil | 389 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈2,900 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Anil | 50 |
| SG Singapore | #941 | ≈610 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | Anil | 65 |
| GY Guyana | — | 519 | 1 in 1.4K | 519 | — | 1 |
| IN India | #10 | — | — | 4.2K | Anil | 334 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ânil mean, and where does it come from?
- Sanskrit: ‘air’, ‘wind’, one of the commonest names of the wind god Vayu, charioteer of Indra. Feminine form: Anila. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen and 1 other source.
- Is Ânil a male or female name?
- Ânil is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Ânil have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 102 thousand people named Ânil in Nepal, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled anil.
- How common is the name Ânil?
- In the United States, the national register counted 7,485 people named Ânil in 2020, about 1 in 44 thousand residents.
- How common is Ânil compared with other names?
- In India, Ânil is the 10th most common given name of 3,760,348 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C3%A2nilThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Ânil” — the 10th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.