Ananda

Where Ananda comes from

Transliteration of Sanskrit आनन्द (ānanda) or Pali ānanda.
— Wiktionary's entry for Ananda
  • Sanskrit
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1968
    First appearance
    #6,246 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 2002
    Peak, #1,483
    128 babies named Ananda — more than any year before or since.
  3. 2004
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #2,808.
  4. 2018
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
In the dictionary
  • A unisex given name from Sanskrit.
Namesakes

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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.