Kaushik — boys' name

What the Data Says About Kaushik

The Social Security Administration has registered 239 babies named Kaushik between 1981 and 2018, spanning 38 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Kaushik currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2018. The name reached its historical peak in 2002, when 25 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Kaushik performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 146 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Kaushik shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 19 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Kaushik in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Kaushik in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 239 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.