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Ananda

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Joy, bliss, happiness, through ānanda

Ananda has been given to 1,735 babies in the U.S. since 1968. 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 2002, with 128 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 94% girls, 6% boys all-time.

Babies named Ananda, 2024

1 in 557,000

Ananda over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Ananda over time

In 2024, Ananda went to 100% girls and 0% boys.

19682024

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Ananda: meaning, origin, and history

Joy, bliss, happiness, through ānanda

Sanskrit

What Ananda means

Ananda belongs to the name family reached through Ananda → ānanda. Its meaning is “joy, bliss, happiness”.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Transliteration of Sanskrit आनन्द (ānanda) or Pali ānanda.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Ananda (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Ananda is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

Ananda comes through Sanskrit आनन्द and Pali ānanda.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include आनन and ānanda.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,624 girls were recorded with the name Ananda between 1968 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 128 in 2002; its best national rank was #1,483 in 2002.

In the United States, 111 boys were recorded with the name Ananda between 1972 and 2020. Its highest annual count was 10 in 2015; its best national rank was #3,974 in 1972.

How common is Ananda?

Ananda had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 557,000
6 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 270,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
386,177 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ananda 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 2024 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 386,177 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ananda. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Anandas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ananda was born before 2000 — so the typical Ananda is around 25 today.

Median birth year
2000
About 25 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
42.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
54.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,624
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 42.5% of all recorded uses (691).

Is Ananda 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2002 (128)
Years since peak
23
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,483
2002

Spellings of Ananda

Ananda is not the most common spelling — Anna is, with 40.9% against Ananda's 0.07%.

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 Ananda is used

Across 1910–2025, Ananda was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 194,136 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2Florida1 in 100,000
  3. 3Georgia1 in 100,000
  4. 4North Carolina1 in 100,000
  5. 5New Jersey1 in 100,000
  6. 6New York1 in 100,000
  7. 7Alabama1 in —
  8. 8Illinois1 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. Ananda has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Ananda around the world

Where Ananda 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
    1999–2010
    #5,707
    in 2010
  • France
    1976–2024
    #6,566
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1978–1998
    #710
    in 1998

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Ananda 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
#1,483
2002
Peak year
2002
128 that year
First recorded
1968
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
1,624
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#3,974
1972
Peak year
2015
10 that year
First recorded
1972
Last recorded
2020
All-time count
111
Count in 2025
Under 5

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Sibling names for Ananda

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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