Ansh
Ansh was given to 69 boys in 2025, #2,109 among boys’ names; 2,244 Americans have been recorded with it since 1998 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,220 Americans named Ansh and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 7 and 17.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ansh by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Ansh mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Ansh is “a male given name from Sanskrit used in India.”
From Sanskrit अंश (aṃśa).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Ansh?
#2,109 among boys’ names, 2025
Ansh fell from #1,493 in 2015 to #2,109 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 57.9 to 40.4 per million.
138 babies in 2012, the peak
Ansh peaked in 2012, when 138 boys were given it, #1,274 among boys’ names. The 69 births of 2025 are 50% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 69 | #2,109 | 40.4 |
| 2024 | 85 | #1,880 | 49.3 |
| 2023 | 77 | #1,987 | 45.0 |
| 2022 | 95 | #1,752 | 54.4 |
| 2021 | 82 | #1,869 | 46.9 |
| 2020 | 96 | #1,656 | 55.6 |
| 2019 | 89 | #1,755 | 49.6 |
| 2018 | 119 | #1,458 | 65.5 |
| 2017 | 124 | #1,408 | 67.0 |
| 2016 | 109 | #1,533 | 57.4 |
Every recorded year (28)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 111 | #1,493 | 57.9 |
| 2014 | 111 | #1,466 | 57.8 |
| 2013 | 119 | #1,405 | 62.9 |
| 2012 | 138 | #1,274 | 72.7 |
| 2011 | 108 | #1,496 | 56.9 |
| 2010 | 98 | #1,599 | 51.1 |
| 2009 | 92 | #1,699 | 46.4 |
| 2008 | 90 | #1,692 | 44.1 |
| 2007 | 111 | #1,446 | 53.5 |
| 2006 | 65 | #2,036 | 31.6 |
| 2005 | 55 | #2,180 | 27.5 |
| 2004 | 78 | #1,650 | 39.3 |
| 2003 | 41 | #2,505 | 20.8 |
| 2002 | 30 | #3,021 | 15.5 |
| 2001 | 19 | #4,126 | 9.8 |
| 2000 | 12 | #5,592 | 6.1 |
| 1999 | 15 | #4,544 | 7.8 |
| 1998 | 6 | #8,526 | 3.1 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Ansh a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ansh has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 28 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Ansh: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ansh, and how old are they?
2,220 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,244 Americans ever recorded as Ansh. The median Ansh alive today is 12 years old; half are between 7 and 17.
The 2020 Census counted 1,824 people named Ansh (13 women and girls, 1,811 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,749 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 946 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,280 |
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 Ansh born?
The states with the most babies named Ansh are California, New Jersey and Texas, with 84% of its births recorded by state in 2025; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 11 | #1,511 | 1.3× |
| New Jersey | 9 | #712 | 5.1× |
| Texas | 7 | #2,089 | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,296 | 1.5× |
Where Ansh is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Ansh is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 1998 it was given 5.1 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 Ansh 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 7,451 babies since 1880, Ansh is the second most given (30% of them). In 2025 it was given to 69 of their 182 babies (38%), 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 Ansh
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 Ansh and names like it
- Compare Ansh and AnishBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sAnsh peaked in 2012.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ansh since 1910.
- Sanskrit namesWiktionary’s origin for Ansh: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2012The year the most babies were named Ansh.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Ansh alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.