Aarush
Aarush was given to 99 boys in 2025, #1,668 among boys’ names; 3,060 Americans have been recorded with it since 2002 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,030 Americans named Aarush and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 7 and 15.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Aarush by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Aarush mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Aarush is “a male given name from Hindi, of Indian usage.”
Transliteration of Hindi आरुष (āruṣ).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Aarush?
#1,668 among boys’ names, 2025
Aarush fell from #977 in 2015 to #1,668 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.11 to 0.06 per 1,000.
227 babies in 2010, the peak
Aarush peaked in 2010, when 227 boys were given it, #900 among boys’ names. The 99 births of 2025 are 44% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 99 | #1,668 | 0.06 |
| 2024 | 106 | #1,608 | 0.06 |
| 2023 | 82 | #1,909 | 0.05 |
| 2022 | 112 | #1,574 | 0.06 |
| 2021 | 108 | #1,591 | 0.06 |
| 2020 | 157 | #1,203 | 0.09 |
| 2019 | 166 | #1,167 | 0.09 |
| 2018 | 179 | #1,094 | 0.10 |
| 2017 | 166 | #1,141 | 0.09 |
| 2016 | 191 | #1,037 | 0.10 |
Every recorded year (24)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 211 | #977 | 0.11 |
| 2014 | 181 | #1,070 | 0.09 |
| 2013 | 177 | #1,063 | 0.09 |
| 2012 | 174 | #1,074 | 0.09 |
| 2011 | 188 | #1,020 | 0.10 |
| 2010 | 227 | #900 | 0.12 |
| 2009 | 143 | #1,249 | 0.07 |
| 2008 | 141 | #1,233 | 0.07 |
| 2007 | 113 | #1,433 | 0.05 |
| 2006 | 51 | #2,397 | 0.02 |
| 2005 | 35 | #2,956 | 0.02 |
| 2004 | 18 | #4,599 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 29 | #3,181 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 6 | #9,388 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Aarush a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Aarush 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 Aarush: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Aarush, and how old are they?
3,030 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 3,060 Americans ever recorded as Aarush. The median Aarush alive today is 11 years old; half are between 7 and 15.
The 2020 Census counted 2,448 people named Aarush (10 women and girls, 2,438 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,416 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,110 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,920 |
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 Aarush born?
The states with the most babies named Aarush are Texas, California and New Jersey, with 81% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 20 | #1,094 | 1.0× |
| California | 18 | #1,119 | 1.4× |
| New Jersey | 6 | #915 | 3.8× |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,280 | 1.5× |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,277 | 0.9× |
Where Aarush is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Aarush is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 2002 it was given 3.8 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 Aarush 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 7 names spelled alike, given to 6,141 babies since 1880, Aarush is the most given (50% of them). In 2025 it was given to 99 of their 225 babies (44%), 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 Aarush
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 Aarush and names like it
- Compare Aarush and ArashBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sAarush peaked in 2010.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Aarush since 1910.
- The top names of 2010The year the most babies were named Aarush.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Aarush alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.