MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Anil mean?
Sanskrit anila denotes wind or moving air. It also names the wind deity in Sanskrit literature, connecting the natural element with a divine figure.
Pronunciation
IAST: anila
Meaning themes
windnature
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
अनिल
Letter-by-letter: anila
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Anil in Indian usage
1,322,988 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (99.1%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 11,355 records (0.9%).
- Recorded as male: 1,311,633 records (99.1%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1920s | 1,158 |
| 1930s | 1,212 |
| 1940s | 6,155 |
| 1950s | 38,601 |
| 1960s | 146,693 |
| 1970s | 302,863 |
| 1980s | 463,121 |
| 1990s | 362,853 |
| Other decades | 332 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 454,826 |
| Bihar | 258,804 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 144,800 |
| Haryana | 92,978 |
| Rajasthan | 80,053 |
| Jharkhand | 67,266 |
| Delhi | 55,335 |
| Kerala | 45,025 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 28,576 |
| Uttarakhand | 26,432 |
| Punjab | 22,442 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 20,266 |
| Assam | 7,711 |
| Tripura | 5,013 |
| Chandigarh | 3,048 |
| Maharashtra | 2,651 |
| Goa | 2,463 |
| Odisha | 1,231 |
| Arunachal Pradesh | 690 |
| Meghalaya | 632 |
| Sikkim | 584 |
| Andaman and Nicobar Islands | 576 |
| Mizoram | 347 |
| Karnataka | 289 |
| Manipur | 273 |
| Dadra and Nagar Haveli | 238 |
| Nagaland | 184 |
| Daman and Diu | 133 |
| Other states | 122 |
How to read these numbers
Small counts and a second count where needed are withheld for privacy; an omitted value is not zero. Coverage, dates and suppression.
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Sources
- Historical Indian voter-record totals, v3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Historical usage; CC0 1.0; birth years 1910–2001
- Monier-Williams, anila, p. 30,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Behind the Name: Anil ↗ (opens in a new tab)
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- Wiktionary: अनिल ↗ (opens in a new tab)
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Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.