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Usha

Girls' name

Variant of Ushas

Usha has been given to 152 babies in the U.S. since 1951. 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 1973, with 12 recorded.

Babies named Usha, 2019

1 in 694,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Usha: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Ushas

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Usha means

Usha is a variant of Ushas.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Usha is used in Hinduism, Kannada, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Hindi, Marathi and Nepali.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Ushas.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 152 girls were recorded with the name Usha between 1951 and 2019. Its highest annual count was 12 in 1973; its best national rank was #4,850 in 1973.

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.

How common is Usha?

Usha had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2019, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2019
1 in 694,000
5 of 3,472,229 births
Among girls only
1 in 336,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2019
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
481,354 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Usha 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 2019 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 481,354 children born in 2019 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Usha. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ushas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Usha was born before 1976 — so the typical Usha is around 49 today.

Median birth year
1976
About 49 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
51.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
13.2%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
152
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 51.3% of all recorded uses (78).

Is Usha 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 1973 (12)
Years since peak
52
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,850
1973

Spellings of Usha

Usha is not the most common spelling — Isla is, with 15.7% against Usha's 0.04%.

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.

Usha around the world

Where Usha 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
    2006–2006
    #5,061
    in 2006
  • France
    1975–1975
    #2,428
    in 1975
  • South Australia
    1972–1982
    #670
    in 1982

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.

Usha 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
#4,850
1973
Peak year
1973
12 that year
First recorded
1951
Last recorded
2019
All-time count
152
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Usha

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

BashaYashaInshaJishaAushaEishaRaishaRakshaAvishaDakshaAdashaNyshaBrishaTwishaAashaSaeshaOshaSoshaLeyshaMashaMyshaSrishaAhshaTvisha

Sibling names for Usha

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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