Ananda
Last seen for girls in 2024 at #13,477 · Last seen for boys in 2020 at #8,739
Given to girls 93.6% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2002 · 128 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,624since 1968
Ananda over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | — | ||
| 2024 | #13,477 | 6 | — | |
| 2023 | #9,616 | 10 | — | |
| 2022 | #9,680 | 10 | — | |
| 2021 | #12,206 | 7 | — | |
| 2020 | #10,250 | 9 | #8,739 | 8 |
| 2019 | #12,448 | 7 | #10,803 | 6 |
| 2018 | #8,617 | 12 | #10,760 | 6 |
| 2017 | — | #12,246 | 5 | |
| 2016 | #8,393 | 13 | #12,185 | 5 |
| 2015 | #6,977 | 17 | #7,491 | 10 |
| 2014 | #7,302 | 16 | — | |
| 2013 | #6,255 | 20 | #12,136 | 5 |
| 2012 | #7,456 | 16 | — | |
| 2011 | #5,207 | 26 | #12,287 | 5 |
| 2010 | #4,974 | 28 | — | |
| 2009 | #5,226 | 27 | #12,491 | 5 |
| 2008 | #4,448 | 34 | #11,037 | 6 |
| 2007 | #2,930 | 61 | — | |
| 2006 | #3,564 | 44 | — | |
| 2005 | #3,081 | 51 | #11,472 | 5 |
| 2004 | #2,808 | 57 | — | |
| 2003 | #2,497 | 65 | — | |
| 2002 | #1,483 | 128 | — | |
| 2001 | #1,660 | 109 | #10,556 | 5 |
| 2000 | #1,551 | 115 | — | |
| 1999 | #1,667 | 99 | — | |
| 1998 | #1,921 | 79 | — | |
| 1997 | #2,259 | 60 | — | |
| 1996 | #3,361 | 34 | — | |
| 1995 | #8,766 | 9 | — | |
| 1994 | #6,672 | 13 | — | |
| 1993 | #7,038 | 12 | — | |
| 1992 | #5,718 | 16 | — | |
| 1991 | #6,976 | 12 | — | |
| 1990 | #5,835 | 15 | — | |
| 1989 | #4,670 | 19 | — | |
| 1988 | #4,840 | 17 | — | |
| 1987 | #5,074 | 15 | — | |
| 1986 | #4,964 | 15 | — | |
| 1985 | #3,730 | 22 | — | |
| 1984 | #5,222 | 13 | — | |
| 1983 | #4,109 | 18 | — | |
| 1982 | #3,647 | 22 | — | |
| 1981 | #4,162 | 18 | — | |
| 1980 | #4,978 | 14 | #6,250 | 5 |
| 1979 | #3,541 | 22 | — | |
| 1978 | #3,512 | 21 | — | |
| 1977 | #3,366 | 22 | #5,123 | 6 |
| 1976 | #3,812 | 17 | #4,012 | 8 |
| 1975 | #2,612 | 29 | #4,309 | 7 |
| 1974 | #3,110 | 22 | — | |
| 1973 | #3,971 | 15 | #4,054 | 7 |
| 1972 | #3,714 | 16 | #3,963 | 7 |
| 1971 | #3,943 | 15 | — | |
| 1970 | #3,208 | 20 | — | |
| 1969 | #5,057 | 9 | — | |
| 1968 | #6,246 | 6 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Ananda! It came in at #6,246, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 2017, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
See more about Ananda
- Not published in 2025; last seen 2024
- Debuted 1968
- Peaked 2002 at #1,483 (128 births)
- Births halved by 2004, 2 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 14,038 girls born in 2002 were named Ananda (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 270,032 girls born in 2024 (0.00%)
- 42.5% of all girls named Ananda (691) were born in this decade
- Mostly boys until 2017, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 15 | #5,057 (1969) | #5,652 |
| 1970s | 199 | #2,612 (1975) | #3,479 |
| 1980s | 173 | #3,647 (1982) | #4,540 |
| 1990s | 349 | #1,667 (1999) | #5,021 |
| 2000s | 691 | #1,483 (2002) | #2,925 |
| 2010s | 155 | #4,974 (2010) | #7,514 |
| 2020s | 42 | #9,616 (2023) | #11,046 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Ananda in 2005
Top girls' names in 2005
Top boys' names in 2005
More about 2005
girls
1,847,842 girls got a published name in 2005; 1 in 36,232 of them was named Ananda, which outranked 84.0% of the 19,199 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #3,052Sarahy52
- #3,052Sincere52
- #3,052Zipporah52
- #3,081Ananda51
- #3,081Adreanna51
- #3,081Allissa51
- #3,081Ammy51
- #3,126Addisen50
- #3,126Aleyda50
- #3,126Alijah50
Tied with 44 names at #3,081; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,997,305 boys got a published name in 2005; 1 in 399,461 of them was named Ananda, which outranked 14.2% of the 13,370 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 10.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 1,898 names at #11,472; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.