Ananda
Ananda is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 6 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 60.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 2002128 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1968
- 1,735people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,624 girls have been named Ananda in the United States since 1968, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2002, with 128 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2000, and the 2000s alone account for 43%.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 111 boys have also been given it, 6.4% of the total.
By decade
In 2002, its biggest year
Ananda was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 2002 were Emily, Madison, Hannah, Emma and Alexis. See all of 2002.
Names that rose and fell with Ananda
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Gillianpeak 1999
- Reganpeak 2001
- Lissetpeak 2004
- Tionnapeak 2000
- Jaquelinepeak 2000
- Tyanapeak 2000
- Jalapeak 2001
- Nehapeak 2004
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.