Given name
Akansha
“hope, ambition”
Akansha is a feminine given name from Sanskrit, meaning “hope, ambition.”
Meaning & origin
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
Akansha through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 60
- 0 boys · 60 girls
- Most popular year
- 2003
- 10 babies
- 2025
- 5
- #15,025 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 5 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 15,025 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for girls was 10 in 2003. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 302 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.
Akansha’s family of names
In English usage, Akansha has a related form in AKANKSHA. In English usage, Akansha has a related form in AKANKSHA. In English usage, Akansha 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.
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