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Anothony vs Anoushka

American parents have registered 637 Anoushkas since 1880, against 344 Anothonys. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Anothony against Anoushka, 1880 to 2025 0 15 30 45 60 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Anothony Anoushka

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 59 years in which either name was published, Anothony for 34 years and Anoushka for 25 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Anothony Anoushka
Total US births 344637
Most in one year 1858
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 290630
Median age today 5416
Peak year 19612009
Best rank 1,948th boys2,966th girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19552000
Girls / boys 0 / 344637 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Anothonys alive today are over 54; half the Anoushkas are over 16. That is 38 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Anothony and Anoushka.