Piyush

Boys' name

Biestings; cream; juice; nectar

Piyush has been given to 35 babies in the U.S. since 2005. 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 2007, with 9 recorded.

Babies named Piyush, 2016

1 in 612,000

Piyush over time, 1880–2025

Boys

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Piyush: meaning, origin, and history

Biestings; cream; juice; nectar

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Piyush means

Piyush means “biestings; cream; juice; nectar”, associated with pīyūṣa.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Ultimately from Sanskrit पीयूष (pīyūṣa, “biestings; cream; juice; nectar”).

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Origin, language, and formation

Piyush is used in English.

Piyush comes through Sanskrit पीयूष.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 35 boys were recorded with the name Piyush between 2005 and 2016. Its highest annual count was 9 in 2007; its best national rank was #8,728 in 2007.

How common is Piyush?

Piyush 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 612,000; 6 of 3,669,531 births
Among boys only: 1 in 316,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2016: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 423,922 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Piyush 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 423,922 children born in 2016 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Piyush. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Piyushs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Piyush was born before 2007 — so the typical Piyush is around 18 today.

Median birth year: 2007; About 18 years old
Biggest decade: 2000s; 65.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 35; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2000s — 65.7% of all recorded uses (23).

Is Piyush 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 2007 (9)
Years since peak: 18; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 14.3% average annual change
Best rank ever: #8,728; 2007

Spellings of Piyush

Piyush is not the most common spelling — Ayush is, with 57.7% against Piyush's 0.98%.

Ayush57.7%2,056
Aayush41.4%1,475
Piyush0.98%35

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.

Piyush around the world

Where Piyush 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
1997–2008
#2,775
in 2008

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

Piyush 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: #8,728; 2007
Peak year: 2007; 9 that year
First recorded: 2005
Last recorded: 2016
All-time count: 35
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Piyush

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

Dhanush Khush Dariush Soroush Tanush Ankush Anush Pratyush Arush Bush Aayush Krush Prayush Aarush Ayush Kush Rush

Sibling names for Piyush

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

Jailyn Kalli Neveah Marlen Jaylyn Lupita Rhianna Marin

For a brother

Jaeden Nikhil Jamarcus Slade Brandt Nevin Ean Davian

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