Given name
Anuja
“younger sister”
Anuja is a feminine given name from Sanskrit, meaning “younger sister.”
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1977. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Anuja through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 121
- 0 boys · 121 girls
- Most popular year
- 2000
- 10 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 8 in 2013. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 10 in 2000. 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.
Anuja’s family of names
In English usage, Anuja has a conventional equivalent in the Hindi form अनुजा.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Anuja
- Anuja JungIndian sport shooterborn 1971
- Anuja ChandramouliIndian writerborn 1984
- Anuja Chandra-ThakurIndian amateur snooker playerborn 1983
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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