Anu
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Anu is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nepal than in any other country. Recorded meaning: अणुरूपा is Bhavani (N).
- FIFinland1 in 419(measured from records)
- NGNigeria≈1 in 12K
- USUnited States1 in 31Kas An
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 Anu 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)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 281 (measured from records)
- 1 in 419 (inferred from the name graph)
≈20,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
अणुरूपा is Bhavani (N). Note: अणु and अण्वी are
Sources 1
- Sunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names
Attested across 30 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Anu 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 | — | ≈20,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | 1 | Anu | 47 |
| BD Bangladesh | #994 | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 9K | — | Anu | 38 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Anu | 56 |
| FI Finland | #221 | 13,290 | 1 in 419 | 14K | Anu | 51 |
| US United States | — | 10,800as An | 1 in 31K | 9.4K | Anu | 281 |
| LK Sri Lanka | #575 | ≈7,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.3K | — | Anu | 18 |
| EE Estonia | #432 | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 667 | 3.1K | Anu | 36 |
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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Statistics Estonia — Ees- ja perekonnanimed (Population Register); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names. 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Anu is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, A sky-god, the god of heaven, lord of constellations, king of gods, spirits and demons, who dwelt in the highest heavenly region.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
name of many men (P)
as a nameSunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names
In pjt, past of ananyi (“go”): went, left
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Sundanese, An article that denotes a noun.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Malay, Someone or something whose name is not mentioned (on purpose, due to forgetting, etc.).
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Anu Kaalb. 1940EEEstonian opera singer, music educator and actor (born 1940)
- Anu Muhammadb. 1956BDBangladeshi politician and economist
- Anu Malikb. 1960INIndian music director and singer (born 1960)
- Anu Vehviläinenb. 1963FIFinnish politician
- Anu Sinisalob. 1966FIFinnish actress
- Anu Komsib. 1967FIFinnish opera singer
- Anu Aggarwalb. 1969INmodel and actress
- Anu Hasanb. 1970INIndian actress
- Anu Talib. 1972EEEstonian conductor (born 1972)
- Anu Nieminenb. 1977FIFinnish badminton player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 47 sources across 25 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Anu come from?
- अणुरूपा is Bhavani (N). Note: अणु and अण्वी are Recorded by Sunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names.
- What are other forms of the name Anu?
- In the etymology graph, Nancy, Annette and Annie are forms of the same name in other languages; Niina is a recorded short or pet form; it is recorded as a short form of Anna.
- What does the name Anu mean?
- Recorded meaning: अणुरूपा is Bhavani (N).
- Is Anu a male or female name?
- Anu is a female 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 Anu have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 20 thousand people named Anu in Nepal, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled anu.
- Where is Anu most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Anu is densest in Finland — about 1 in 419 people — even though Nepal holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Anu?
- In Finland, the national register counted 13,290 people named Anu, about 1 in 419 residents.
- How common is Anu compared with other names?
- In Finland, Anu is the 221st most common given name of 19,056 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/anuThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Anu” — the 221st most common given name in Finland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.