Fun Facts About the Name Aayush
- More than 1 thousand babies named Aayush: U.S. records list 1,475 babies given the name Aayush from 1880 through 2025.
What Does the Name Aayush Mean?
Aayush is a modern spelling of the Sanskrit masculine name Ayush, formed from the Sanskrit noun āyus (आयुष्), which means "life," "duration of life," or "vital power." The customary English gloss is "long life," an extension of the literal sense: the word names the span of a person's life, and a long span is a long life. The doubled initial a in Aayush is a transliteration choice that marks the long vowel ā at the start of the word; it does not change the meaning or the root.
Aayush Name History & Origins
The root āyus is old in Sanskrit and appears in the Vedas, where it is tied to life span and vital force. It also underlies a family of Sanskrit words, including āyurveda, the traditional system of medicine whose name means "knowledge of life," and āyuṣya, "conducive to long life." A related adjective, āyuṣmān ("possessing life," "long-lived"), survives in the traditional blessing āyuṣmān bhava, "may you live long," still spoken at Hindu ceremonies.
Aayush belongs to the modern period of Indian given names, used in India and Nepal alongside the spellings Ayush and, in a longer form, Ayushman. The shorter name reflects the common loss of the final -s in later Indo-Aryan languages such as Hindi, where the Sanskrit stem āyus becomes āyu or āyush. Because the name is a transliteration rather than a fixed spelling, the number of a's and the final h vary between users, and none of these variants represents a different origin.
How Popular is the Name Aayush?
Aayush has historically been an exceptionally rare given name in the United States, remaining well outside the national mainstream. It saw its highest recorded annual births in 2015. Its best rank was #1,739 in 2015.
U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #4,396 | 23 | 0.0013% |
| 2024 | #5,047 | 19 | 0.0011% |
| 2023 | #3,879 | 28 | 0.0016% |
| 2022 | #3,276 | 36 | 0.0021% |
| 2021 | #2,974 | 41 | 0.0023% |
| 2020 | #2,290 | 59 | 0.0034% |
| 2019 | #2,214 | 63 | 0.0035% |
| 2018 | #2,166 | 64 | 0.0035% |
| 2017 | #2,796 | 43 | 0.0023% |
| 2016 | #2,167 | 63 | 0.0033% |
| 2015 | #1,739 | 88 | 0.0046% |
| 2014 | #1,945 | 74 | 0.0039% |
| 2013 | #2,063 | 65 | 0.0034% |
| 2012 | #1,818 | 81 | 0.0043% |
| 2011 | #2,145 | 61 | 0.0032% |
| 2010 | #1,752 | 86 | 0.0045% |
| 2009 | #2,119 | 64 | 0.0032% |
| 2008 | #2,125 | 64 | 0.0031% |
| 2007 | #2,034 | 68 | 0.0033% |
| 2006 | #1,944 | 69 | 0.0034% |
| 2005 | #2,298 | 51 | 0.0026% |
| 2004 | #1,953 | 62 | 0.0031% |
| 2003 | #2,270 | 47 | 0.0024% |
| 2002 | #2,249 | 46 | 0.0024% |
| 2001 | #1,982 | 54 | 0.0028% |
| 2000 | #3,764 | 21 | 0.0011% |
| 1999 | #5,035 | 13 | 0.0007% |
| 1998 | #5,840 | 10 | 0.0005% |
| 1997 | #4,960 | 12 | 0.0006% |
Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.
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