Anuja
Anuja was last recorded in 2013, when 8 babies were given it; 121 Americans have been recorded with it between 1977 and 2013 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Anuja by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Anuja mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Anuja is “a female given name from Sanskrit used in India.” Its etymology gives the sense “younger sister” (अनुजा).
Borrowed from Sanskrit अनुजा (anujā, “younger sister”).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Anuja?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #12,114, in 2013; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
10 babies in 2000, the peak
Anuja peaked in 2000, when 10 girls were given it, #9,221 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 8 | #12,114 | 4.6 |
| 2012 | 6 | #15,143 | 3.4 |
| 2009 | 5 | #17,571 | 2.7 |
| 2007 | 7 | #14,068 | 3.6 |
| 2004 | 9 | #10,777 | 4.9 |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,221 | 5.5 |
| 1998 | 5 | #14,318 | 2.8 |
| 1997 | 7 | #10,941 | 4.0 |
| 1996 | 6 | #11,936 | 3.4 |
| 1995 | 6 | #11,896 | 3.4 |
Every recorded year (18)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 | 6 | #11,886 | 3.3 |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,085 | 4.9 |
| 1985 | 7 | #8,387 | 4.1 |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,351 | 4.8 |
| 1982 | 5 | #10,608 | 3.0 |
| 1981 | 5 | #10,517 | 3.0 |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,221 | 4.2 |
| 1977 | 5 | #9,727 | 3.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Anuja a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Anuja has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 18 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Anuja: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Anuja, and how old are they?
An estimated 118 Americans named Anuja and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 30 years old and half are between 22 and 41. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 982 people named Anuja (969 women and girls, 13 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 119 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8.3 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.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 5,517 babies since 1880, Anuja is the eighth most given (2.2% of them). In 2025 none of their 58 babies recorded by SSA was a Anuja (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Anuja
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 Anuja and names like it
- Compare Anuja and AnjaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sAnuja peaked in 2000.
- Sanskrit namesWiktionary’s origin for Anuja: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2000The year the most babies were named Anuja.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Anuja alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with AMost given first.