girls:
1.6k births since 1968
#4140 (28th percentile)
boys:
111 births since 1972
#4475 (2nd percentile)
overall:
1.7k births since 1968
#6022 (22nd percentile)
The name Ananda is the #6,022 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,729 recorded births since 1968. This represents the 22.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 22.2% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,140 (27.6% percentile) for all time with 1,618 births since 1968. For boys, it ranks #4,475 (2.4% percentile) for all time with 111 births since 1972.
Ananda first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1968 (1968 for girls and 1972 for boys).
The name Ananda has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 93.6% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Ananda reached its peak popularity in 2002, achieving the 13.8% percentile (ranked #771) with 65 births per million. The name was most common in 2002, with 65 births per million (ranked 13.8% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2003, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Ananda ranks #942 for girls (0.5% percentile) with 6 births per million, which is 8.8% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Ananda reached its peak popularity in 2015, achieving the 0.6% percentile (ranked #900) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1976, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.5% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2020.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Ananda".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Ananda. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 51.4% confident that Ananda is pronounced as uh-NAHN-duh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is uh-NAN-duh, at 27.0% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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