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Mayukha

Girl · mah-YOO-khah · Sanskrit

Mayukha is a girls' name of Sanskrit origin, meaning “ray of light”. In 2025 it ranked 5,237th for girls in the US (24 babies).

What does Mayukha mean?

Sanskrit

“ray of light”

From the Sanskrit word mayukha, a ray or beam of light, used in classical poetry for sunbeams and moonbeams.

Say it
mah-YOO-khah

Is Mayukha a girl's or a boy's name?

Mayukha is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 24 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Mayukha in the US?

Rank in 2025
#5,237among girls
Babies in 2025
24about 1 in 67,000 girls
Five-year trend
Risingup 80% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 24 girls in the US were named Mayukha, making it the 5,237th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 7,554th. It first appears in the records in 2010.

It has been given to more girls each year for the last 3 years. 2025 had the most girls named Mayukha of any year since it first appeared, in 2010.

Half of all the girls named Mayukha in the US since 1880 were born between 2016 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.

2010Busiest: 24 in 20252025
Mayukha in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
202524#5,237
202422#5,612
202317#6,675
202212#8,536
202112#8,459
202014#7,554
201912#8,592
20189#10,540
201711#9,337
20168#11,776
201513#8,443
20146#14,552
20137#13,145
20128#12,193
20110–
20109#11,240

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