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Aarav

Boys' name · Current · Hindi origin

Living in the US
~8,100 survival-weighted estimate
2025 rank
#710 among boys
Births in 2025
377 8,209 since 1880
Typical age
9 years, median

Aarav popularity over time

Aarav rank by birth year, 2002–2025Aarav ranked #9,392 in 2002 and #710 in 2025. Its best rank in the period was #523, in 2014.#1,000#10,000#71020052010201520202025
Rank among US baby names by birth year, 2002–2025. Lower is more popular; the scale is logarithmic so the top of the chart is not compressed.

The high point was 2015: 541 births recorded as Aarav. 2002 is the earliest year with at least five recorded births. Aarav has ranked inside the top 1,000 in 18 years.

In 2025 it ranked #710 with 377 births. The ten-year change is -30%. Year on year the rank dropped by 34.

Babies named Aarav per yearPeaks at 541 births in 2015.541 in 2015020052010201520202025
Recorded US births by year. The peak is labelled; the axis starts at zero.

How many people are named Aarav?

About 8,100 people named Aarav are alive in the United States today. That is out of 8,209 recorded births since 1880.

This is a survival-weighted estimate, not a headcount: every recorded birth year is multiplied by the chance someone born that year is still alive, using the SSA period life table. How the estimate works.

How old is the average Aarav?

Median age among living Aaravs: 9. More of them were born in the 2010s than in any other decade. By the site’s era rules that makes Aarav a current name.

Your Aarav

Ages of living people named AaravHalf of living Aaravs are older than 9 and half younger.median 9020
Estimated living bearers by age today. Each bar is a birth year, weighted by the chance someone born then is still alive.

Where Aarav is most common

The name is concentrated in New Jersey, at 3.6× the national rate. Washington, Massachusetts and Connecticut follow.

Where Aarav is used more than average5 states use the name Aarav more than the national average.Alaska: not over-representedAKMaine: not over-representedMEVermont: not over-representedVTNew Hampshire: not over-representedNHWashington: 2.7× the national rateWAIdaho: not over-representedIDMontana: not over-representedMTNorth Dakota: not over-representedNDMinnesota: not over-representedMNIllinois: not over-representedILWisconsin: not over-representedWIMichigan: not over-representedMINew York: not over-representedNYOregon: not over-representedORNevada: not over-representedNVWyoming: not over-representedWYSouth Dakota: not over-representedSDIowa: not over-representedIAIndiana: not over-representedINOhio: not over-representedOHPennsylvania: not over-representedPANew Jersey: 3.6× the national rateNJConnecticut: 1.9× the national rateCTRhode Island: not over-representedRICalifornia: 1.7× the national rateCAUtah: not over-representedUTColorado: not over-representedCONebraska: not over-representedNEMissouri: not over-representedMOKentucky: not over-representedKYWest Virginia: not over-representedWVVirginia: not over-representedVAMaryland: not over-representedMDDelaware: not over-representedDEMassachusetts: 2.0× the national rateMAArizona: not over-representedAZNew Mexico: not over-representedNMKansas: not over-representedKSArkansas: not over-representedARTennessee: not over-representedTNNorth Carolina: not over-representedNCSouth Carolina: not over-representedSCDistrict of Columbia: not over-representedDCOklahoma: not over-representedOKLouisiana: not over-representedLAMississippi: not over-representedMSAlabama: not over-representedALGeorgia: not over-representedGAHawaii: not over-representedHITexas: not over-representedTXFlorida: not over-representedFL
Same as national3× or more
Location quotient, 2016–2025. Shaded states use the name more than the country does, relative to their own births. Exact figures are in the table below.
States where Aarav is over-represented, 2016–2025. The location quotient compares the state's share of the name with the national share.
StateBirthsvs national rate
New Jersey 355 3.6×
Washington 218 2.7×
Massachusetts 134 2.0×
Connecticut 60 1.9×
California 835 1.7×

Aarav in England and Wales

ONS recorded 179 births named Aarav in 2025, ranking it #257. That is 25% higher than five years earlier.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Counts below three are suppressed by ONS.

Where the name Aarav comes from

Transliteration of Hindi आरव (“sound; loud noise”).

Etymology summarised from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0. Wiktionary entry.

See how Hindi names are used in American and British births on the Hindi names page.

Names similar to Aarav

Matched by sound and spelling inside this dataset, then ordered by total recorded births. This is not a claim about shared etymology.

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