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Ananda

Girls' name · Millennial-era · Sanskrit origin

Living in the US
~1,700 survival-weighted estimate
2025 rank
Unranked no births recorded
Births in 2025
0 1,735 since 1880
Typical age
25 years, median

Ananda popularity over time

Ananda rank by birth year, 1968–2024Ananda ranked #6,246 in 1968 and #13,477 in 2024. Its best rank in the period was #1,483, in 2002.#10,000#13,477best #1,483 in 2002197019801990200020102020
Rank among US baby names by birth year, 1968–2024. Lower is more popular; the scale is logarithmic so the top of the chart is not compressed.

2002 is the peak year for Ananda, with 128 births. 1968 is the earliest year with at least five recorded births. The name last cleared the reporting threshold in 2024.

Babies named Ananda per yearPeaks at 128 births in 2002.128 in 20020197019801990200020102020
Recorded US births by year. The peak is labelled; the axis starts at zero.

How many people are named Ananda?

About 1,700 people named Ananda are alive in the United States today. SSA has recorded 1,735 births under the name since 1880. The split is about 1,600 women and 110 men.

This is a survival-weighted estimate, not a headcount: every recorded birth year is multiplied by the chance someone born that year is still alive, using the SSA period life table. How the estimate works.

How old is the average Ananda?

Half of living Anandas are older than 25, half younger. The 2000s produced the largest surviving cohort. By the site’s era rules that makes Ananda a millennial-era name.

Your Ananda

Ages of living people named AnandaHalf of living Anandas are older than 25 and half younger.median 2502040
Estimated living bearers by age today. Each bar is a birth year, weighted by the chance someone born then is still alive.

Is Ananda a boy's or a girl's name?

94% girls6% boys
Share of all recorded US births under this name, 1880 to the latest year.

Mostly given to girls: 28.8% of the last ten years of births were boys. Across the whole record, 93.6% of births under the name were girls.

Where the name Ananda comes from

Transliteration of Sanskrit आनन्द or Transliteration of Pali ānanda.

Etymology summarised from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0. Wiktionary entry.

See how Sanskrit names are used in American and British births on the Sanskrit names page.

Notable people named Ananda

Ordered by how many Wikipedia language editions have an article about them — a measure of reach, not of importance.
NameKnown forYearsEditions
Ananda Coomaraswamy Sri Lankan Tamil metaphysician 1877–1947 43
Ananda Devi Mauritian writer 1957 20
Ananda Krishnan Malaysian businessman 1938–2024 14
Ananda Mikola Indonesian racing driver 1980 14
Ananda Shankar Indian musician 1942–1999 13
Ananda Samarakoon Sri Lankan musician 1911–1962 13
Ananda Everingham Thai actor 1982 12
Ananda Lewis American television personality and activist 1973–2025 11
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People and dates from Wikidata (CC0), limited to those with an English Wikipedia article who are known by this name as their first name.

Names similar to Ananda

Matched by sound and spelling inside this dataset, then ordered by total recorded births. This is not a claim about shared etymology.

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