# Anshu (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/anshu/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | Sanskrit |
| Meaning | “ray”, “beam”, “sunbeam” |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 148 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 10 / 138 (93% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 7, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit अंशु (aṃśu, “ray, beam, sunbeam”).

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 8 | 11,948 |
| 2006 | 8 | 12,533 |
| 2007 | 11 | 10,201 |
| 2008 | 5 | 17,802 |
| 2009 | 12 | 9,443 |
| 2010 | 13 | 8,758 |
| 2011 | 10 | 10,463 |
| 2012 | 9 | 11,362 |
| 2013 | 6 | 14,784 |
| 2014 | 10 | 10,220 |
| 2016 | 5 | 16,501 |
| 2017 | 9 | 10,781 |
| 2018 | 6 | 13,962 |
| 2019 | 6 | 13,988 |
| 2020 | 5 | 15,320 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 5 | 11,467 |
| 2008 | 5 | 12,665 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 4 | 4,564 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 3 | 4,805 |

## In other languages

- Hindi: अंशु

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.