Aarav
Aarav was given to 377 boys in 2025, #710 among boys’ names; 8,209 Americans have been recorded with it since 2002 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 8,140 Americans named Aarav and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 6 and 14.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Aarav by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Aarav mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Aarav is “a male given name from Hindi, of Indian usage.” Its etymology gives the sense “sound; loud noise” (आरव).
Transliteration of Hindi आरव (ārav, “sound; loud noise”).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Aarav?
#710 among boys’ names, 2025
Aarav fell from #529 in 2015 to #710 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.28 to 0.22 per 1,000.
541 babies in 2015, the peak
Aarav peaked in 2015, when 541 boys were given it, #529 among boys’ names. The 377 births of 2025 are 70% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 377 | #710 | 0.22 |
| 2024 | 404 | #676 | 0.23 |
| 2023 | 408 | #666 | 0.24 |
| 2022 | 406 | #673 | 0.23 |
| 2021 | 431 | #639 | 0.25 |
| 2020 | 419 | #638 | 0.24 |
| 2019 | 419 | #642 | 0.23 |
| 2018 | 488 | #565 | 0.27 |
| 2017 | 526 | #539 | 0.28 |
| 2016 | 519 | #552 | 0.27 |
Every recorded year (24)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 541 | #529 | 0.28 |
| 2014 | 531 | #523 | 0.28 |
| 2013 | 495 | #535 | 0.26 |
| 2012 | 435 | #586 | 0.23 |
| 2011 | 436 | #574 | 0.23 |
| 2010 | 438 | #577 | 0.23 |
| 2009 | 270 | #816 | 0.14 |
| 2008 | 219 | #926 | 0.11 |
| 2007 | 161 | #1,120 | 0.08 |
| 2006 | 144 | #1,172 | 0.07 |
| 2005 | 70 | #1,834 | 0.04 |
| 2004 | 41 | #2,595 | 0.02 |
| 2003 | 25 | #3,523 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 6 | #9,386 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Aarav a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Aarav has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 24 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Aarav: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Aarav, and how old are they?
8,140 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 8,209 Americans ever recorded as Aarav. The median Aarav alive today is 10 years old; half are between 6 and 14.
The 2020 Census counted 5,686 people named Aarav (11 women and girls, 5,675 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 5,824 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,220 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 5,920 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Aarav born?
The states with the most babies named Aarav are California, Texas and New Jersey, with 46% of its births recorded by state in 2025; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 68 | #465 | 1.5× |
| Texas | 54 | #575 | 0.9× |
| New Jersey | 30 | #293 | 3.7× |
| New York | 30 | #527 | 1.0× |
| Washington | 26 | #282 | 1.7× |
| Pennsylvania | 17 | #546 | 1.0× |
| Illinois | 13 | #677 | 1.6× |
| Georgia | 13 | #710 | 1.1× |
| Maryland | 12 | #407 | 1.1× |
| North Carolina | 11 | #775 | 0.9× |
Where Aarav is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Aarav is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 2002 it was given 3.7 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Aarav with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 11,132 babies since 1880, Aarav is the most given (74% of them). In 2025 it was given to 377 of their 582 babies (65%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Aarav
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Aarav and names like it
- Compare Aarav and AarivBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sAarav peaked in 2015.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Aarav since 1910.
- The top names of 2015The year the most babies were named Aarav.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Aarav alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.