Anuradha

Girls' name

Causing success

Anuradha has been given to 127 babies in the U.S. since 1964. 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 1976, with 10 recorded.

Babies named Anuradha, 2006

1 in 565,000

Anuradha over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Anuradha: meaning, origin, and history

Causing success

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Anuradha means

Anuradha means “causing success”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Anuradha is used in Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, Telugu, Kannada, Tamil and Sinhalese.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 127 girls were recorded with the name Anuradha between 1964 and 2006. Its highest annual count was 10 in 1976; its best national rank was #5,617 in 1976.

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.

U.S. Social Security Administration: national name data and limitations

How common is Anuradha?

Anuradha had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2006, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2006: 1 in 565,000; 7 of 3,956,166 births
Among girls only: 1 in 272,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2006: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 391,745 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Anuradha 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 2006 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 391,745 children born in 2006 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Anuradha. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Anuradhas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Anuradha was born before 1983 — so the typical Anuradha is around 42 today.

Median birth year: 1983; About 42 years old
Biggest decade: 1970s; 33.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 52.8%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 127; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1970s — 33.1% of all recorded uses (42).

Is Anuradha 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: —; 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 1976 (10)
Years since peak: 49; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 26.3% average annual change
Best rank ever: #5,617; 1976

Anuradha around the world

Where Anuradha 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.

South Australia
1984–1984
#661
in 1984

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Anuradha 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: #5,617; 1976
Peak year: 1976; 10 that year
First recorded: 1964
Last recorded: 2006
All-time count: 127
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Anuradha

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

Anushree Aviendha Shraddha Anuoluwa Anupama Anushri Snigdha Anuhea Anuoluwapo Kridha Anureet Anushka Sumedha Anuja Akshadha Anuri Anuhya Tridha Vrindha Shradha Vedha Ridha Nivedha Anuska

Sibling names for Anuradha

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

For a sister

Chanda Jason Cary Kevin Karie Brandee Sunshine Sommer

For a brother

Jamey Torrey Federico Giuseppe Tory Rodrick Delvin Demond

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