Anil is a first name for boys.
Recently, the name Anil has been given only a handful of times a year and is therefore particularly rare, at least in the US. In recent years, not even one boy in 100,000 has been named Anil. That means that a boy named Anil is exceptional and may not meet another person with the same name his whole life. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Anil.
Do you know the feeling when you go to the zoo and the animal that is supposed to be in the enclosure is not there? You know it should to be there, but you've never seen it? It's the same with Anil. Boys named Anil have made themselves scarce. But some parents got a taste for it many years ago: Reaching pos. 1,209 Anil ranked higher than ever in 1974. By comparison, there have been 86 years in which the first name Anil has not been given at all (or less than 5 times, which is the minimum number required for a name to be included in the statistics), most recently in 2022. In general, parents name their sons Anil only once in a blue moon, so boys and men with this name can consider themselves really special!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Anil was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In not even one in five states you will find more than 4 men and boys with the name Anil. This first name might not be completely unknown, but in the entire United States, there are about 377 Americans who bear this name. And these 377 men and boys named Anil live in no more than 7 different states, including for example California, Illinois, Indiana, New Jersey and New York. In the other 42 states, there are either none or less than a handful boys and men with this name (to explain: The official statistics provide the data per state only if at least five men with a specific name live in the same state. So, it’s quite possible that there are one or two states where someone with the name Anil lives although the name is not listed in the official statistics. Should you be one of those rare people whose name is Anil and you live outside the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics). The state with the most boys and men named Anil relative to its male population is New York. And even there, only one male in 47,813 would raise his hand if you asked, who is called Anil.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter A is a very popular first letter for boys’ names. That’s because 9.0% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letter J is more common for boys' names.
With four letters, the name Anil is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that if 9.0% of all boys' names start with an A, this initial letter occurs nearly three times as often as all other letters on average. And by the way: Of all the boys' names that start with an A, Anthony is the most common.
If your name is Anil and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Anil, you can simply say:
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Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Anil
Anil
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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L
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
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In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Anil sounds like this:
