Ayush
Ayush was given to 29 boys in 2025, #3,768 among boys’ names; 2,056 Americans have been recorded with it since 1992 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,030 Americans named Ayush and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 12 and 21.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ayush by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Ayush mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Ayush is “a male given name from India, of Indian usage.” Its etymology gives the sense “live long” (meaning).
From the Sanskrit phrase आयुष्मान्भव (āyuṣmānbhava) in the Mahabharata, meaning “live long”.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Ayush?
#3,768 among boys’ names, 2025
Ayush fell from #1,913 in 2015 to #3,768 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 39.7 to 17.0 per million.
132 babies in 2005, the peak
Ayush peaked in 2005, when 132 boys were given it, #1,201 among boys’ names. The 29 births of 2025 are 22% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 29 | #3,768 | 17.0 |
| 2024 | 29 | #3,804 | 16.8 |
| 2023 | 24 | #4,355 | 14.0 |
| 2022 | 44 | #2,874 | 25.2 |
| 2021 | 38 | #3,128 | 21.7 |
| 2020 | 42 | #2,850 | 24.3 |
| 2019 | 48 | #2,659 | 26.8 |
| 2018 | 50 | #2,549 | 27.5 |
| 2017 | 59 | #2,242 | 31.9 |
| 2016 | 68 | #2,067 | 35.8 |
Every recorded year (33)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 76 | #1,913 | 39.7 |
| 2014 | 72 | #1,978 | 37.5 |
| 2013 | 97 | #1,590 | 51.3 |
| 2012 | 105 | #1,525 | 55.4 |
| 2011 | 103 | #1,533 | 54.2 |
| 2010 | 115 | #1,439 | 59.9 |
| 2009 | 123 | #1,381 | 62.0 |
| 2008 | 112 | #1,468 | 54.9 |
| 2007 | 114 | #1,423 | 54.9 |
| 2006 | 106 | #1,455 | 51.6 |
| 2005 | 132 | #1,201 | 66.1 |
| 2004 | 125 | #1,214 | 63.0 |
| 2003 | 82 | #1,547 | 41.5 |
| 2002 | 78 | #1,569 | 40.2 |
| 2001 | 75 | #1,588 | 38.6 |
| 2000 | 33 | #2,737 | 16.8 |
| 1999 | 22 | #3,486 | 11.5 |
| 1998 | 24 | #3,197 | 12.6 |
| 1997 | 9 | #6,131 | 4.8 |
| 1996 | 5 | #9,123 | 2.6 |
| 1994 | 7 | #7,027 | 3.6 |
| 1993 | 5 | #8,805 | 2.5 |
| 1992 | 5 | #8,537 | 2.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Ayush a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ayush has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 33 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Ayush: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ayush, and how old are they?
2,030 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,056 Americans ever recorded as Ayush. The median Ayush alive today is 17 years old; half are between 12 and 21.
The 2020 Census counted 2,767 people named Ayush (18 women and girls, 2,749 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,843 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.5 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 | 21 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,340 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 671 |
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 Ayush born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 5 | #2,518 | 1.4× |
| Texas | 5 | #2,613 | 0.7× |
Where Ayush is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Ayush is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 1992 it was given 3.1 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 Ayush 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 6,211 babies since 1880, Ayush is the second most given (33% of them). In 2025 it was given to 29 of their 244 babies (12%), 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 Ayush
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 Ayush and names like it
- Compare Ayush and AshBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sAyush peaked in 2005.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ayush since 1910.
- The top names of 2005The year the most babies were named Ayush.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Ayush alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.