Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1995. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Aanchal through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 72
- 0 boys · 72 girls
- Most popular year
- 2007
- 11 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 2017. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 11 in 2007. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 349 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Aanchal’s family of names
In English usage, Aanchal has a conventional equivalent in the Hindi form आँचल.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Aanchal
- Aanchal MunjalIndian actressborn 1997
- Aanchal SharmaNepalese model and actress.born 1998
- Aanchal MalhotraIndian writer and oral historianborn 1990
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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