Anagha
Feminine · “sinless”
Anagha is Sanskrit for the faultless — built with a negative prefix on the word for a fault, so it says plainly what it means: without sin.
How old is the name Anagha?
Anagha first appears in US birth records in 1997 — 28 years ago. The typical Anagha is a kid of about 12 — this name's wave is very recent. About 700 people named Anagha are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Anagha most popular?
Anagha peaked in 2024, reaching #3758 nationally. Today it ranks #3832, 74 places below that high. See the whole 2024 chart.
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Where it comes from
From agha to Anagha
The story of Anagha
Sanskrit builds a great many names by negation — Anagha the faultless, Ananta the endless, Amrita the deathless, Ajeya the unconquerable — and the pattern is one of the language's most productive. Anagha appears as an epithet in the Mahabharata and has been used as a personal name across India, particularly in the south and in Maharashtra. It reaches American records with families from those regions.
Meaning
sinless, faultless
From Sanskrit an-, not, and agha, a fault or sin; the compound appears in the epics as an epithet and is used for both women and men. The same negative prefix opens Ananta, endless, and Amrita, deathless.
How the name formed
- agha
- Anagha
Related forms: Anagha · Anagha · Anagha
Pronouncing Anagha
uh-NAH-gah
Three syllables with the stress in the middle. The gh is a single breathy consonant English does not have.
Nicknames for Anagha
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 girls named
- 201240 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #3758reached in 2024
- Change vs 2024
- −5.0%38 in 2025, from 40
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.
Anagha in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Anagha in Hindi — transliteration
- Anagha in Sanskrit — same name
- Anagha in Marathi — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas, Georgia.
Anaghas among us
people named Anagha are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 42,297 born in 2025 was named Anagha
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 Shazia test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Anagha's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Shazia climbed just as high around 1986, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Shazia's path sketches the road Anagha is walking now.
Anagha 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
Where Anagha is headed
Anagha should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Anagha beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Anagha in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A settled Sanskrit meaning with a clear and transparent construction.
- Anu is a warm short form already in universal Indian use.
- It is used for both sexes, which is useful before a birth.
- The gh is a genuine Indian consonant that English lacks and will be flattened.
- A name meaning faultless is a large thing to hand a child.
- Anagha, Anagh and Anaghaa are all in use and get confused.
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Frequently asked
- How many Anaghas 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 Anagha are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Anagha in 2025?
- Anagha ranks #3832 among US girl names in 2025, with 38 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Anagha?
- About 1 in every 42,297 US girls born in 2025 was named Anagha — 38 in all.
- Will my child share the name Anagha with classmates?
- Anagha will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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