Ananda
Ananda was last recorded in 2024, when 6 babies were given it; 1,735 Americans have been recorded with it between 1968 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,700 Americans named Ananda and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 26 years old and half are between 21 and 35.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ananda by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Ananda mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Ananda is “a unisex given name from Sanskrit.”
Transliteration of Sanskrit आनन्द (ānanda) or Pali ānanda.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Ananda?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #13,606, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
128 babies in 2002, the peak
Ananda peaked in 2002, when 128 girls were given it, #1,483 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 6 | #13,606 | 3.7 |
| 2023 | 10 | #9,664 | 6.2 |
| 2022 | 10 | #9,718 | 6.1 |
| 2021 | 7 | #12,310 | 4.3 |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,310 | 5.6 |
| 2019 | 7 | #12,548 | 4.2 |
| 2018 | 12 | #8,654 | 7.1 |
| 2016 | 13 | #8,439 | 7.3 |
| 2015 | 17 | #7,000 | 9.5 |
| 2014 | 16 | #7,330 | 9.0 |
Every recorded year (56)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 20 | #6,270 | 11.4 |
| 2012 | 16 | #7,482 | 9.1 |
| 2011 | 26 | #5,219 | 14.8 |
| 2010 | 28 | #4,986 | 15.8 |
| 2009 | 27 | #5,236 | 14.7 |
| 2008 | 34 | #4,461 | 18.0 |
| 2007 | 61 | #2,931 | 31.7 |
| 2006 | 44 | #3,567 | 23.1 |
| 2005 | 51 | #3,080 | 27.6 |
| 2004 | 57 | #2,808 | 31.0 |
| 2003 | 65 | #2,495 | 35.6 |
| 2002 | 128 | #1,483 | 71.2 |
| 2001 | 109 | #1,659 | 60.5 |
| 2000 | 115 | #1,550 | 63.3 |
| 1999 | 99 | #1,666 | 55.8 |
| 1998 | 79 | #1,919 | 44.7 |
| 1997 | 60 | #2,258 | 34.5 |
| 1996 | 34 | #3,361 | 19.4 |
| 1995 | 9 | #8,801 | 5.1 |
| 1994 | 13 | #6,692 | 7.3 |
| 1993 | 12 | #7,049 | 6.6 |
| 1992 | 16 | #5,728 | 8.7 |
| 1991 | 12 | #6,985 | 6.4 |
| 1990 | 15 | #5,839 | 7.9 |
| 1989 | 19 | #4,675 | 10.3 |
| 1988 | 17 | #4,846 | 9.5 |
| 1987 | 15 | #5,073 | 8.6 |
| 1986 | 15 | #4,972 | 8.7 |
| 1985 | 22 | #3,734 | 12.8 |
| 1984 | 13 | #5,225 | 7.7 |
| 1983 | 18 | #4,116 | 10.8 |
| 1982 | 22 | #3,653 | 13.0 |
| 1981 | 18 | #4,165 | 10.8 |
| 1980 | 14 | #4,986 | 8.4 |
| 1979 | 22 | #3,546 | 13.7 |
| 1978 | 21 | #3,516 | 13.7 |
| 1977 | 22 | #3,371 | 14.3 |
| 1976 | 17 | #3,817 | 11.6 |
| 1975 | 29 | #2,613 | 19.9 |
| 1974 | 22 | #3,111 | 15.0 |
| 1973 | 15 | #3,979 | 10.3 |
| 1972 | 16 | #3,720 | 10.5 |
| 1971 | 15 | #3,949 | 9.0 |
| 1970 | 20 | #3,213 | 11.4 |
| 1969 | 9 | #5,059 | 5.3 |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,271 | 3.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Ananda a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,735 Americans recorded as Ananda, 94% are girls and 6% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Ananda: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ananda, and how old are they?
1,700 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,735 Americans ever recorded as Ananda. The median Ananda alive today is 26 years old; half are between 21 and 35.
The 2020 Census counted 2,759 people named Ananda (2,228 women and girls, 531 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,661 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.7 times 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 X | 1965-1980 | 250 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 262 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,010 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 171 |
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 Ananda born?
The states with the most babies named Ananda are California, New York and Florida, with 60% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 175 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| New York | 82 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Florida | 67 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Texas | 48 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Georgia | 27 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| North Carolina | 25 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Illinois | 23 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| New Jersey | 23 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Virginia | 15 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Maryland | 12 | not ranked | 0.4× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ 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 Ananda 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 5 names spelled alike, given to 2,223 babies since 1880, Ananda is the most given (78% of them).
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 Ananda
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 Ananda and names like it
- Compare Ananda and AndaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sAnanda peaked in 2002.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ananda since 1910.
- Sanskrit namesWiktionary’s origin for Ananda: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2002The year the most babies were named Ananda.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Ananda alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.