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Akansha

#15,021 in 2025Girls' name

Hope, ambition

Akansha has been given to 60 babies in the U.S. since 1999. In 2025 it ranked #15,021 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2003, with 10 recorded.

Babies named Akansha, 2025

1 in 663,000

Akansha over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Akansha: meaning, origin, and history

Hope, ambition

Sanskrit

What Akansha means

Akansha means “hope, ambition”, associated with ākāṃkṣā.

Origin, language, and formation

Akansha is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 60 girls were recorded with the name Akansha between 1999 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 10 in 2003; its best national rank was #9,688 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 Akansha?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 321,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#15,021
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Akansha 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 2025 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Akansha. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Akanshas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Akansha was born before 2003 — so the typical Akansha is around 22 today.

Median birth year
2003
About 22 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
51.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
86.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
60
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Choose a decade

2000s — 51.7% of all recorded uses (31).

Is Akansha 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
50.0%
Peak was 2003 (10)
Years since peak
22
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
45.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#9,688
2003

Spellings of Akansha

Akansha is not the most common spelling — Kanisha is, with 19.8% against Akansha's 0.46%.

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 Akansha is used

Across 1910–2025, Akansha was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 3,202,555 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. Akansha has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Akansha by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#15,021
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#9,688
2003
Peak year
2003
10 that year
First recorded
1999
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
60
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Akansha

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

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Sibling names for Akansha

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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