Anusha
Anusha was last recorded in 2024, when 8 babies were given it; 1,164 Americans have been recorded with it between 1988 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,150 Americans named Anusha and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 21 years old and half are between 15 and 25.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Anusha by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Anusha?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #11,210, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
72 babies in 2003, the peak
Anusha peaked in 2003, when 72 girls were given it, #2,320 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 8 | #11,210 | 4.9 |
| 2023 | 10 | #9,676 | 6.2 |
| 2022 | 12 | #8,585 | 7.3 |
| 2021 | 9 | #10,368 | 5.5 |
| 2020 | 19 | #6,103 | 11.8 |
| 2019 | 16 | #7,051 | 9.5 |
| 2018 | 16 | #7,131 | 9.4 |
| 2017 | 22 | #5,675 | 12.7 |
| 2016 | 19 | #6,430 | 10.7 |
| 2015 | 26 | #5,142 | 14.6 |
Every recorded year (35)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 30 | #4,670 | 16.8 |
| 2013 | 23 | #5,660 | 13.1 |
| 2012 | 42 | #3,719 | 23.8 |
| 2011 | 42 | #3,668 | 23.9 |
| 2010 | 45 | #3,520 | 25.3 |
| 2009 | 61 | #2,852 | 33.2 |
| 2008 | 39 | #4,014 | 20.6 |
| 2007 | 66 | #2,754 | 34.3 |
| 2006 | 68 | #2,636 | 35.8 |
| 2005 | 66 | #2,578 | 35.7 |
| 2004 | 64 | #2,590 | 34.9 |
| 2003 | 72 | #2,320 | 39.4 |
| 2002 | 70 | #2,310 | 39.0 |
| 2001 | 66 | #2,378 | 36.7 |
| 2000 | 54 | #2,707 | 29.7 |
| 1999 | 52 | #2,676 | 29.3 |
| 1998 | 42 | #3,015 | 23.8 |
| 1997 | 28 | #3,903 | 16.1 |
| 1996 | 17 | #5,544 | 9.7 |
| 1995 | 13 | #6,663 | 7.4 |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,168 | 5.6 |
| 1993 | 11 | #7,528 | 6.1 |
| 1992 | 11 | #7,547 | 6.0 |
| 1991 | 10 | #8,016 | 5.3 |
| 1988 | 5 | #11,934 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Anusha a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Anusha has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 35 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Anusha: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Anusha, and how old are they?
1,150 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,164 Americans ever recorded as Anusha. The median Anusha alive today is 21 years old; half are between 15 and 25.
The 2020 Census counted 3,937 people named Anusha (3,931 women and girls, 6 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,101 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.6 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 75 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 868 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 209 |
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 Anusha born?
The states with the most babies named Anusha are California, New Jersey and Texas, with 69% of its births recorded by state since 1910; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 190 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| New Jersey | 53 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Texas | 52 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| New York | 44 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Illinois | 35 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Virginia | 11 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Georgia | 10 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Maryland | 6 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Washington | 6 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Anusha is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Anusha is most over-represented in California: since 1988 it was given 1.2 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 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 Anusha 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 9,128 babies since 1880, Anusha is the second most given (13% of them). In 2025 none of their 51 babies recorded by SSA was a Anusha (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 Anusha
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 Anusha and names like it
- Compare Anusha and AnishaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sAnusha peaked in 2003.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Anusha since 1910.
- The top names of 2003The year the most babies were named Anusha.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Anusha alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.