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Aradhana

Girls' name

Worship, adoration

Aradhana has been given to 152 babies in the U.S. since 2007. 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 2012, with 17 recorded.

Babies named Aradhana, 2024

1 in 418,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Aradhana: meaning, origin, and history

Worship, adoration

Sanskrit

What Aradhana means

Aradhana means “worship, adoration”, associated with ārādhanā.

Origin, language, and formation

Aradhana is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 152 girls were recorded with the name Aradhana between 2007 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 17 in 2012; its best national rank was #7,167 in 2012.

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 Aradhana?

Aradhana 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 418,000
8 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 203,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
289,633 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Aradhana 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 289,633 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Aradhana. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Aradhanas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Aradhana was born before 2016 — so the typical Aradhana is around 9 today.

Median birth year
2016
About 9 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
67.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
152
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 67.1% of all recorded uses (102).

Is Aradhana 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 2012 (17)
Years since peak
13
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
30.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#7,167
2012

Spellings of Aradhana

Aradhana is not the most common spelling — Aahana is, with 86.6% against Aradhana's 13.4%.

  • Aahana86.6%982
  • Aradhana13.4%152

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.

Aradhana around the world

Where Aradhana 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
    2006–2025
    #3,705
    in 2025
  • France
    2019–2021
    #7,400
    in 2021
  • South Australia
    2009–2009
    #818
    in 2009

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.

Aradhana 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
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Best rank ever
#7,167
2012
Peak year
2012
17 that year
First recorded
2007
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
152
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Aradhana

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

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Sibling names for Aradhana

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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