Ananya

Where Ananya comes from

Borrowed from Sanskrit अनन्य (ananya).
— Wiktionary's entry for Ananya
  • Sanskrit
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1995
    First appearance
    #8,079 among girls, 10 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 2006
    Peak, #1,167
    208 babies named Ananya — more than any year before or since.
  3. 2022
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #2,208.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Sanskrit.
Namesakes

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Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.