Aayush
Aayush was given to 23 boys in 2025, #4,395 among boys’ names; 1,475 Americans have been recorded with it since 1997 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,460 Americans named Aayush and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 9 and 20.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Aayush by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Aayush?
#4,395 among boys’ names, 2025
Aayush fell from #1,740 in 2015 to #4,395 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 45.9 to 13.5 per million.
88 babies in 2015, the peak
Aayush peaked in 2015, when 88 boys were given it, #1,740 among boys’ names. The 23 births of 2025 are 26% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 23 | #4,395 | 13.5 |
| 2024 | 19 | #5,063 | 11.0 |
| 2023 | 28 | #3,880 | 16.4 |
| 2022 | 36 | #3,277 | 20.6 |
| 2021 | 41 | #2,973 | 23.4 |
| 2020 | 59 | #2,291 | 34.2 |
| 2019 | 63 | #2,214 | 35.1 |
| 2018 | 64 | #2,166 | 35.2 |
| 2017 | 43 | #2,797 | 23.2 |
| 2016 | 63 | #2,167 | 33.2 |
Every recorded year (29)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 88 | #1,740 | 45.9 |
| 2014 | 74 | #1,944 | 38.5 |
| 2013 | 65 | #2,064 | 34.4 |
| 2012 | 81 | #1,817 | 42.7 |
| 2011 | 61 | #2,144 | 32.1 |
| 2010 | 86 | #1,751 | 44.8 |
| 2009 | 64 | #2,118 | 32.3 |
| 2008 | 64 | #2,124 | 31.4 |
| 2007 | 68 | #2,034 | 32.8 |
| 2006 | 69 | #1,943 | 33.6 |
| 2005 | 51 | #2,294 | 25.5 |
| 2004 | 62 | #1,949 | 31.2 |
| 2003 | 47 | #2,266 | 23.8 |
| 2002 | 46 | #2,245 | 23.7 |
| 2001 | 54 | #1,978 | 27.8 |
| 2000 | 21 | #3,758 | 10.7 |
| 1999 | 13 | #5,030 | 6.8 |
| 1998 | 10 | #5,833 | 5.2 |
| 1997 | 12 | #4,954 | 6.4 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Aayush a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Aayush has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 29 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Aayush: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Aayush, and how old are they?
1,460 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,475 Americans ever recorded as Aayush. The median Aayush alive today is 14 years old; half are between 9 and 20.
The 2020 Census counted 1,711 people named Aayush (5 women and girls, 1,706 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,272 born in the U.S. The Census count is 35% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 798 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 661 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Aayush born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,022 | 3.5× |
Where Aayush is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Aayush is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 1997 it was given 3.5 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Aayush with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 3,531 babies since 1880, Aayush is the second most given (42% of them). In 2025 it was given to 23 of their 52 babies (44%), again the second most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Aayush
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Aayush and names like it
- Compare Aayush and AyushBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sAayush peaked in 2015.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Aayush since 1910.
- The top names of 2015The year the most babies were named Aayush.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Aayush alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.