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Aanchal

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded; Sanskrit origin

Aanchal has been given to 72 babies in the U.S. since 1995. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2007, with 11 recorded.

Babies named Aanchal, 2017

1 in 715,000

Aanchal over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Aanchal: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded; Sanskrit origin

Sanskrit

What Aanchal means

Aanchal is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Aanchal is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 72 girls were recorded with the name Aanchal between 1995 and 2017. Its highest annual count was 11 in 2007; its best national rank was #9,551 in 1995.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Aanchal?

Aanchal had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2017, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2017
1 in 715,000
5 of 3,577,106 births
Among girls only
1 in 345,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2017
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
495,893 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Aanchal sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2017 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 495,893 children born in 2017 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Aanchal. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Aanchals were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Aanchal was born before 2004 — so the typical Aanchal is around 21 today.

Median birth year
2004
About 21 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
72.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
72
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Choose a decade

2000s — 72.2% of all recorded uses (52).

Is Aanchal rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2007 (11)
Years since peak
18
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
33.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#9,551
1995

Spellings of Aanchal

Aanchal is not the most common spelling — Rachal is, with 94.8% against Aanchal's 5.2%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Aanchal is used

Across 1910–2025, Aanchal was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,668,796 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Aanchal has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Aanchal around the world

Where Aanchal ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2006–2008
    #3,860
    in 2008
  • South Australia
    2000–2000
    #727
    in 2000

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Aanchal by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#9,551
1995
Peak year
2007
11 that year
First recorded
1995
Last recorded
2017
All-time count
72
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Aanchal

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

AanayaAanshiAanisahAanyahAanikaMarshalRaechalAaniahAaniaAaniyahZuhalMishalZohalAanviAaniyaNehalMashalAaniylahIbtihalAanijahNihalAnchalEthalNahal

Sibling names for Aanchal

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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