Amogh
Masculine · “unfailing”
Amogh is Sanskrit for unfailing — built with a negative prefix on a word for what is fruitless, so it names a thing that always works.
How old is the name Amogh?
Amogh first appears in US birth records in 1996 — 29 years ago. The typical Amogh alive today was born around 2009, making them about 16 years old. About 700 people named Amogh are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Amogh most popular?
Amogh peaked in 2008, reaching #2327 nationally. Today it ranks #4539, 2,212 places below that high. See the whole 2008 chart.
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Where it comes from
From mogha to Amogh
The story of Amogh
Amogha appears in the epics of arrows and weapons that cannot miss, and as a divine epithet. The pattern of negation — building a positive by denying its opposite — is one of Sanskrit's most productive: Ananta the endless, Amrita the deathless, Ajeya the unconquerable, Amogha the unfailing. The name is used across India, particularly in Karnataka and Maharashtra.
Meaning
unfailing, unerring
From Sanskrit a-, not, and mogha, vain or fruitless; the compound describes something that never misses its mark. It is used of weapons in the epics and as an epithet of Vishnu.
How the name formed
- mogha
- Amogh
Related forms: Amogh · Amogha · Amogh
Pronouncing Amogh
uh-MOHG
Two syllables with the stress on the second; the gh is a single aspirated consonant.
Nicknames for Amogh
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
- 1996
- Most boys named
- 200856 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2327reached in 2008
- Change vs 2024
- +46.7%22 in 2025, from 15
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.
Amogh in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Amogh in Hindi — transliteration
- Amogha in Sanskrit — same name
- Amogh in Kannada — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: California.
Amoghs among us
people named Amogh are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 77,640 born in 2025 was named Amogh
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Benuel test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Amogh's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Benuel climbed just as high around 1966, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Benuel's path sketches the road Amogh is walking now.
Amogh 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
Amogh beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Amogh in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A settled Sanskrit meaning with a clear and transparent construction.
- Five letters and two syllables, quick to write.
- The negation pattern behind it is genuinely elegant.
- The gh is a single Indian consonant English splits into two.
- A name meaning unfailing is a large thing to hand a child.
- It needs explaining outside Indian communities every time.
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Frequently asked
- How many Amoghs are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 700 people named Amogh are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Amogh in 2025?
- Amogh ranks #4539 among US boy names in 2025, with 22 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Amogh?
- About 1 in every 77,640 US boys born in 2025 was named Amogh — 22 in all.
- Will my child share the name Amogh with classmates?
- Amogh will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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