Given name
Ankur
“one who is blossoming; a sapling”
Ankur is used as a given name. One Indian interpretation is “one who is blossoming; a sapling.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Indian interpretation is “one who is blossoming; a sapling.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Indian.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1974. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Ankur through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 668
- 668 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1981
- 40 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 boys is 5 in 2016. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 40 in 1981. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 2,339 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.
Ankur’s family of names
In English usage, Ankur has a conventional equivalent in the Hindi form अंकुर.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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