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Anuhea vs Anushka

American parents have registered 1,703 Anushkas since 1880, against 523 Anuheas. But in 2025 it was Anuhea that was commoner, 15 babies to 14.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Anuhea against Anushka, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Anuhea Anushka

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 36 years in which either name was published, Anushka for 32 years and Anuhea for 4 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.

Side by side

  Anuhea Anushka
Total US births 5231,703
Most in one year 37126
Babies in 2025 1514
Estimated living today 5201,700
Median age today 1116
Peak year 20152009
Best rank 3,989th girls1,733rd girls
Rank in 2025 7,133rd7,491st
First recorded 19951989
Girls / boys 523 / 01,703 / 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 Anushkas alive today are over 16; half the Anuheas are over 11. That is 5 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Anuhea Anushka
France 555

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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