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Archana

Girls' name

Honouring, praising

Archana has been given to 408 babies in the U.S. since 1972. 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 1989, with 17 recorded.

Babies named Archana, 2018

1 in 502,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Archana: meaning, origin, and history

Honouring, praising

Sanskrit

What Archana means

Archana means “honouring, praising”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Archana is used in Hindi, Marathi, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam and Tamil.

Origin, language, and formation

Archana is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 408 girls were recorded with the name Archana between 1972 and 2018. Its highest annual count was 17 in 1989; its best national rank was #5,058 in 1989.

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 Archana?

Archana had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2018, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2018
1 in 502,000
7 of 3,516,853 births
Among girls only
1 in 243,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2018
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
348,244 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Archana 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 2018 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 348,244 children born in 2018 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Archana. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Archanas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Archana was born before 1996 — so the typical Archana is around 29 today.

Median birth year
1996
About 29 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
28.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
54.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
408
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 28.4% of all recorded uses (116).

Is Archana 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 1989 (17)
Years since peak
36
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
40.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,058
1989

Spellings of Archana

Archana is not the most common spelling — Ariana is, with 79.2% against Archana's 0.27%.

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.

Archana around the world

Where Archana 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
    1997–2013
    #5,742
    in 2013
  • France
    1990–2022
    #5,259
    in 2022
  • Canada
    1994–2008
    #2,774
    in 2008
  • South Australia
    1983–1996
    #712
    in 1996

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

Archana 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
#5,058
1989
Peak year
1989
17 that year
First recorded
1972
Last recorded
2018
All-time count
408
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Archana

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

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Sibling names for Archana

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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