Entry № 773 · Sanskrit origin

Anushka Anushka — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ah-NOOSH-kah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Grace (Anushka Sharma, Bollywood actress and Clean Slate Films)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Modern (Sanskrit)

A name that means "grace (anushka sharma, bollywood actress and clean slate films)".

Anushka is from the Sanskrit anuṣka ("the bright one" or grace) — also the Russian diminutive of Anna. Forbes India Celebrity 100 every year 2013-2023. Anushka Shetty — South Indian actress; Baahubali franchise.

Grace (Anushka Sharma, Bollywood actress and Clean Slate Films) — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

अनुष्का
Transliteration
Anuṣkā
Pronunciation
/ əˈnʊʃ.kə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Anushka stands.

Anushka does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Anushkas before her.

Real people
Anushka Sharma
Indian actress and producer.
born 1988
Anushka Shetty
South Indian actress.
born 1981
In fiction
Anushka
Pataal Lok.
2020

Names connected to Anushka.

The number behind Anushka.

3

The Communicator

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Anushka reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.