Aayush
Masculine · “long life”
Aayush doubles the a of Ayush to mark a long vowel, and the Sanskrit word behind it names a lifespan rather than life itself.
How old is the name Aayush?
Aayush first appears in US birth records in 1997 — 28 years ago. The typical Aayush alive today was born around 2012, making them about 13 years old. About 1,500 people named Aayush are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Aayush most popular?
Aayush peaked in 2015, reaching #1740 nationally. Today it ranks #4396, 2,656 places below that high. See the whole 2015 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Aayush
Ours, offered as ours. The doubled vowel in Aayush is not decoration: Sanskrit and Hindi distinguish short and long a as separate sounds and separate letters, and the Roman alphabet has no way to mark it except by doubling or by a macron. So Aayush and Ayush are two attempts at one word, and the doubled form is the more precise. American forms flatten both to the same sound, which loses a distinction the language treats as meaningful.
Meaning
long life, span of years
From Sanskrit ayus, the duration of a life; the doubled a in this transliteration marks the long vowel that Devanagari writes with a separate character. The same word opens Ayurveda.
Pronouncing Aayush
AA-yoosh
Two syllables, first stressed; the doubled a marks a long vowel.
Nicknames for Aayush
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1997
- Most boys named
- 201588 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1740reached in 2015
- Change vs 2024
- +21.1%23 in 2025, from 19
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Aayush in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Aayush in Hindi — same name
- Ayus in Sanskrit — related form
- Aayush in Nepali — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas, Ohio.
Aayushs among us
people named Aayush are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 74,264 born in 2025 was named Aayush
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Aayush
- #4396
- Aayush on the 2025 chart
- #876
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Aayush went to 23 boys in 2025, but Ayush is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 52, which makes it the 876th most-given boys’ name of the year — 3,520 places above the chart.
- Ayush29
- Aayush23
About 1 boy in 32,848 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 74,264 for Aayush itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Langdon test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Aayush's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Langdon climbed just as high around 1911, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Langdon's path sketches the road Aayush is walking now.
Aayush sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Aayush beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Aayush in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A settled Vedic meaning with a genuinely good sense — a full span of years.
- Six letters and two syllables, quick to write.
- Very widely used across India and Nepal.
- Ayush with one a is the more common spelling in American records.
- The long vowel the doubling marks is flattened by English speakers.
- It is close to Ayaan and Aayan in an American ear.
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Frequently asked
- How many Aayushs are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,500 people named Aayush are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Aayush?
- Aayush is one of 2 recorded spellings. Ayush is the more common one — 29 births in 2025 against 23 for Aayush.
- How popular is the name Aayush in 2025?
- Aayush ranks #4396 among US boy names in 2025, with 23 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Aayush?
- About 1 in every 74,264 US boys born in 2025 was named Aayush — 23 in all.
- Will my child share the name Aayush with classmates?
- Aayush will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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