Meaning & origin
How it developed
From Sanskrit आकाङ्क्षा, built from Sanskrit आ- + काङ्क्षा.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1999. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Akanksha through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 177
- 0 boys · 177 girls
- Most popular year
- 2003
- 20 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 2023. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 20 in 2003. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 982 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.
Akanksha’s family of names
In English usage, Akanksha has a related form in AKANSHA. In English usage, Akanksha has a related form in AKANSHA. In English usage, Akanksha has a conventional equivalent in the Hindi form आकांक्षा.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Akanksha
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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