girls:
103 births since 1980
#5613 (2nd percentile)
boys:
2.7k births since 1969
#2437 (47th percentile)
overall:
2.8k births since 1969
#5119 (34th percentile)
The name Anwar is the #5,119 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,781 recorded births since 1969. This represents the 33.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 33.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,437 (46.8% percentile) for all time with 2,678 births since 1969. For girls, it ranks #5,613 (1.8% percentile) for all time with 103 births since 1980.
Anwar first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1969 (1969 for boys and 1980 for girls).
The name Anwar has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 96.3% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Anwar reached its peak popularity in 1978, achieving the 20.6% percentile (ranked #537) with 84 births per million. The name was most common in 1978, with 84 births per million (ranked 20.6% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Anwar ranks #878 for boys (3.6% percentile) with 21 births per million, which is 24.6% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Anwar reached its peak popularity in 2009, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #954) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1980, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.5% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2020.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Anwar".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Anwar. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 34.9% confident that Anwar is pronounced as AN-wahr, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is AHN-wahr, at 27.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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