Given name
Piyush
“biestings; cream; juice; nectar”
Piyush is a masculine given name from Sanskrit, meaning “biestings; cream; juice; nectar.”
Meaning & origin
How it developed
From Sanskrit पीयूष (“biestings; cream; juice; nectar”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2005. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Piyush through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 35
- 35 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2007
- 9 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 6 in 2016. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 9 in 2007. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,647 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.
People named Piyush
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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