Anushka
Anushka was given to 14 girls in 2025, #7,513 among girls’ names; 1,703 Americans have been recorded with it since 1989 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,690 Americans named Anushka and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 13 and 22.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Anushka by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Anushka?
#7,513 among girls’ names, 2025
Anushka fell from #3,138 in 2015 to #7,513 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 29.7 to 8.7 per million.
126 babies in 2009, the peak
Anushka peaked in 2009, when 126 girls were given it, #1,734 among girls’ names. The 14 births of 2025 are 11% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 | #7,513 | 8.7 |
| 2024 | 20 | #5,972 | 12.3 |
| 2023 | 17 | #6,697 | 10.6 |
| 2022 | 19 | #6,250 | 11.6 |
| 2021 | 16 | #6,993 | 9.8 |
| 2020 | 17 | #6,655 | 10.5 |
| 2019 | 31 | #4,445 | 18.5 |
| 2018 | 26 | #5,015 | 15.3 |
| 2017 | 37 | #4,005 | 21.4 |
| 2016 | 37 | #4,000 | 20.9 |
Every recorded year (36)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 53 | #3,138 | 29.7 |
| 2014 | 63 | #2,742 | 35.3 |
| 2013 | 89 | #2,124 | 50.7 |
| 2012 | 91 | #2,099 | 51.7 |
| 2011 | 108 | #1,859 | 61.4 |
| 2010 | 111 | #1,831 | 62.4 |
| 2009 | 126 | #1,734 | 68.6 |
| 2008 | 83 | #2,336 | 43.9 |
| 2007 | 101 | #2,019 | 52.5 |
| 2006 | 99 | #2,004 | 52.1 |
| 2005 | 84 | #2,183 | 45.5 |
| 2004 | 92 | #1,999 | 50.1 |
| 2003 | 85 | #2,083 | 46.5 |
| 2002 | 81 | #2,097 | 45.1 |
| 2001 | 47 | #3,006 | 26.1 |
| 2000 | 36 | #3,593 | 19.8 |
| 1999 | 25 | #4,454 | 14.1 |
| 1998 | 15 | #6,398 | 8.5 |
| 1997 | 14 | #6,513 | 8.0 |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,191 | 5.7 |
| 1995 | 8 | #9,639 | 4.5 |
| 1994 | 7 | #10,646 | 3.9 |
| 1993 | 7 | #10,684 | 3.9 |
| 1992 | 8 | #9,549 | 4.3 |
| 1990 | 9 | #8,536 | 4.7 |
| 1989 | 17 | #5,056 | 9.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Anushka a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Anushka has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 36 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Anushka: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Anushka, and how old are they?
1,690 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,703 Americans ever recorded as Anushka. The median Anushka alive today is 17 years old; half are between 13 and 22.
The 2020 Census counted 2,142 people named Anushka (2,125 women and girls, 17 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,592 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 65 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,190 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 436 |
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 Anushka born?
The states with the most babies named Anushka are California, New Jersey and Texas, with 67% 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 | 296 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| New Jersey | 143 | not ranked | 2.9× |
| Texas | 89 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| New York | 85 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 55 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 30 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Massachusetts | 25 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Virginia | 23 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Ohio | 10 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Florida | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Anushka is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Anushka is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 1989 it was given 2.9 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 Anushka 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 4 names spelled alike, given to 3,097 babies since 1880, Anushka is the most given (55% of them). In 2025 it was given to 14 of their 31 babies (45%), the second most given that year.
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 Anushka
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 Anushka and names like it
- Compare Anushka and AnoushkaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sAnushka peaked in 2009.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Anushka since 1910.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Anushka.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Anushka alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.