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Ankur

Boys' name

Sapling, sprout, shoot

Ankur has been given to 668 babies in the U.S. since 1974. 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 1981, with 40 recorded.

Babies named Ankur, 2016

1 in 734,000

Ankur over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ankur: meaning, origin, and history

Sapling, sprout, shoot

Sanskrit

What Ankur means

Ankur means “sapling, sprout, shoot”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Ankur is used in Hindi and Marathi.

Origin, language, and formation

Ankur is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 668 boys were recorded with the name Ankur between 1974 and 2016. Its highest annual count was 40 in 1981; its best national rank was #1,519 in 1981.

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 Ankur?

Ankur had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2016, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2016
1 in 734,000
5 of 3,669,531 births
Among boys only
1 in 380,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2016
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
508,706 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ankur sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2016 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 508,706 children born in 2016 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ankur. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ankurs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ankur was born before 1987 — so the typical Ankur is around 38 today.

Median birth year
1987
About 38 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
43.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
35.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
668
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 43.3% of all recorded uses (289).

Is Ankur 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 1981 (40)
Years since peak
44
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
33.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,519
1981

Spellings of Ankur

Ankur is not the most common spelling — Angus is, with 36.1% against Ankur's 3.6%.

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 Ankur is used

Across 1910–2025, Ankur was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 292,022 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3Illinois1 in —
  4. 4New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Ankur has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Ankur around the world

Where Ankur 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
    1996–1998
    #2,901
    in 1998
  • Canada
    1998–1998
    #1,731
    in 1998

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

Ankur by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,519
1981
Peak year
1981
40 that year
First recorded
1974
Last recorded
2016
All-time count
668
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Ankur

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

AnkitShakurAnkushAnkithAnkerAnkomaAnkoorAbdishakur

Sibling names for Ankur

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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