Aarnav
Aarnav was given to 10 boys in 2025, #7,675 among boys’ names; 571 Americans have been recorded with it since 2003 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Aarnav by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Aarnav?
#7,675 among boys’ names, 2025
Aarnav fell from #2,683 in 2015 to #7,675 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 23.5 to 5.9 per million.
62 babies in 2012, the peak
Aarnav peaked in 2012, when 62 boys were given it, #2,154 among boys’ names. The 10 births of 2025 are 16% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #7,675 | 5.9 |
| 2024 | 9 | #8,310 | 5.2 |
| 2023 | 15 | #5,927 | 8.8 |
| 2022 | 18 | #5,211 | 10.3 |
| 2021 | 15 | #5,771 | 8.6 |
| 2020 | 21 | #4,536 | 12.2 |
| 2019 | 12 | #6,774 | 6.7 |
| 2018 | 16 | #5,538 | 8.8 |
| 2017 | 25 | #4,102 | 13.5 |
| 2016 | 26 | #3,989 | 13.7 |
Every recorded year (23)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 45 | #2,683 | 23.5 |
| 2014 | 46 | #2,620 | 23.9 |
| 2013 | 43 | #2,713 | 22.7 |
| 2012 | 62 | #2,154 | 32.7 |
| 2011 | 33 | #3,306 | 17.4 |
| 2010 | 37 | #3,072 | 19.3 |
| 2009 | 33 | #3,330 | 16.6 |
| 2008 | 26 | #3,919 | 12.7 |
| 2007 | 22 | #4,373 | 10.6 |
| 2006 | 18 | #4,862 | 8.8 |
| 2005 | 15 | #5,275 | 7.5 |
| 2004 | 16 | #5,003 | 8.1 |
| 2003 | 8 | #7,825 | 4.0 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Aarnav a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Aarnav has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 23 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Aarnav: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Aarnav, and how old are they?
An estimated 566 Americans named Aarnav and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 10 and 16. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 484 people named Aarnav (0 women and girls, 484 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 484 born in the U.S. The Census count matches that prediction to within 1%.
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).
How common is the spelling Aarnav?
Aarnav is a less common spelling of Arnav: SSA has recorded 571 Aarnav and 3,585 Arnav since 1880.
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 4,156 babies since 1880, Aarnav is the second most given (14% of them). In 2025 it was given to 10 of their 53 babies (19%), again the second 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 Aarnav
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 Aarnav and names like it
- Compare Aarnav and ArnavBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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