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Akanksha

Girls' name

Desire, wish

Akanksha has been given to 177 babies in the U.S. since 1999. 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 2003, with 20 recorded.

Babies named Akanksha, 2023

1 in 663,000

Akanksha 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Akanksha: meaning, origin, and history

Desire, wish

Sanskrit

What Akanksha means

Akanksha means “desire, wish”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Akanksha is used in Hindi.

Another recorded pronunciation is /aː.ˈkaːŋ.kʂaː/ for Akanksha.

Origin, language, and formation

Akanksha is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

Akanksha comes through Sanskrit आकाङ्क्षा and Indonesian desire.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 177 girls were recorded with the name Akanksha between 1999 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 20 in 2003; its best national rank was #5,795 in 2003.

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 Akanksha?

Akanksha had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,314,783 births
Among girls only
1 in 321,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2023
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
459,528 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Akanksha 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 2023 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 459,528 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Akanksha. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Akankshas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Akanksha was born before 2007 — so the typical Akanksha is around 18 today.

Median birth year
2007
About 18 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
62.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
177
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 62.1% of all recorded uses (110).

Is Akanksha 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 2003 (20)
Years since peak
22
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
47.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,795
2003

Spellings of Akanksha

Akanksha is not the most common spelling — Kanisha is, with 43.6% against Akanksha's 3.0%.

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 Akanksha is used

Across 1910–2025, Akanksha was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,287,539 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

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. Akanksha has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Akanksha around the world

Where Akanksha 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
    2004–2014
    #5,691
    in 2014

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Akanksha 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
—
Best rank ever
#5,795
2003
Peak year
2003
20 that year
First recorded
1999
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
177
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Akanksha

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

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Sibling names for Akanksha

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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