Aanya

Where Aanya comes from

From Sanskrit [Term?] (“inexhaustible”).
— Wiktionary's entry for Aanya
  • Sanskrit
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1998
    First appearance
    #14,122 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 2014
    Peak, #997
    266 babies named Aanya — more than any year before or since.
  3. 2025
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,666.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Sanskrit, of Indian usage.
Namesakes

No widely known Aanya turns up in the encyclopedias yet — the name is still all theirs to make famous.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.