Khushi
Feminine · “happiness”
Khushi is the Hindi and Urdu word for happiness, and it came into those languages from Persian — one of thousands of Persian words that did.
How old is the name Khushi?
Khushi first appears in US birth records in 1999 — 26 years ago. The typical Khushi alive today was born around 2008, making them about 17 years old. About 1,500 people named Khushi are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Khushi most popular?
Khushi peaked in 2003, reaching #1199 nationally. Today it ranks #4352, 3,153 places below that high. See the whole 2003 chart.
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Where it comes from
From khush to Khushi
The story of Khushi
Persian was the court and literary language of much of north India for six centuries, and the vocabulary it left in Hindi and Urdu runs into thousands of words — khushi for happiness, dil for a heart, dost for a friend, zindagi for life. Most speakers do not think of them as borrowings. Khushi is used as a personal name across north India and reaches American and British records with those families.
Meaning
happiness, joy
From Persian khushi, happiness, on khush, good or pleasant; the word entered Hindi and Urdu with the long Persian influence on north Indian court and literary language and is now entirely ordinary in both.
How the name formed
- khush
- khushi
Related forms: Khushi · Khushi · Khoshi
Pronouncing Khushi
KOO-shee
Two syllables, first stressed; the kh is a throat sound English does not have.
Nicknames for Khushi
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
- 1999
- Most girls named
- 2003178 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1199reached in 2003
- Change vs 2024
- −8.6%32 in 2025, from 35
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.
Khushi in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Khushi in Hindi — transliteration
- Khushi in Urdu — same name
- Khoshi in Persian — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas, New Jersey.
Khushis among us
people named Khushi are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 50,227 born in 2025 was named Khushi
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Khushi
- #4352
- Khushi on the 2025 chart
- #917
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Khushi went to 32 girls in 2025, but Kushi is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 43, which makes it the 917th most-given girls’ name of the year — 3,435 places above the chart.
- Khushi32
- Kushi11
About 1 girl in 37,378 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 50,227 for Khushi 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 Merline test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Khushi's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Merline climbed just as high around 1931, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Merline's path sketches the road Khushi is walking now.
Khushi 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 Khushi is headed
Khushi should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind. Its history is short or jumpy, though, so read this as a sketch rather than a promise.
Low 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.
Khushi beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Khushi in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A settled meaning that is as cheerful and plain as a meaning gets.
- Six letters and two syllables, quick to write.
- Recognized across north India and Pakistan without explanation.
- The kh is a throat sound English speakers will say as a plain k.
- Khushi, Khushboo and Kushi are all close and get confused.
- It needs explaining outside South Asian communities every time.
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Frequently asked
- How many Khushis 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 Khushi are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Khushi?
- Khushi is the most-used spelling in US records — 32 of the 43 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Kushi.
- How popular is the name Khushi in 2025?
- Khushi ranks #4352 among US girl names in 2025, with 32 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Khushi?
- About 1 in every 50,227 US girls born in 2025 was named Khushi — 32 in all.
- Will my child share the name Khushi with classmates?
- Khushi will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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