Apurva — unisex name

What the Data Says About Apurva

The Social Security Administration has registered 102 babies named Apurva between 1996 and 2014, spanning 19 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Apurva currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2014. The name reached its historical peak in 2001, when 10 babies received it in a single year. Apurva is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 28 additional births since 1973.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Apurva performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 66 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Apurva shows a clear decline from its mid-century high.

No etymological entry is currently available for Apurva in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 102 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.