Given name
Anshul
“radiant, luminous, bright”
Anshul is a masculine given name from Sanskrit, meaning “radiant, luminous, bright.”
Meaning & origin
How it developed
From Sanskrit अंशुल (“radiant, luminous, bright”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1989. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Anshul through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 382
- 382 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2005
- 36 babies
- 2025
- 7
- #9,782 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 7 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 9,782 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 36 in 2005. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,083 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.
Anshul’s family of names
In English usage, Anshul has a conventional equivalent in the Hindi form अंशुल.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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