Aruna
Aruna was given to 52 girls in 2025, #3,106 among girls’ names; 591 Americans have been recorded with it since 1970 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Aruna by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Aruna mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Aruna is “a female given name commonly used in India.”
Borrowed from Sanskrit अरुण (aruṇa).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Aruna?
#3,106 among girls’ names, 2025
Aruna entered the girls’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #3,106 in 2025.
88 babies in 2018, the peak
Aruna peaked in 2018, when 88 girls were given it, #2,147 among girls’ names. The 52 births of 2025 are 59% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 52 | #3,106 | 32.4 |
| 2024 | 60 | #2,800 | 37.0 |
| 2023 | 46 | #3,432 | 28.7 |
| 2022 | 54 | #3,037 | 32.9 |
| 2021 | 39 | #3,809 | 23.8 |
| 2020 | 36 | #3,926 | 22.3 |
| 2019 | 61 | #2,757 | 36.3 |
| 2018 | 88 | #2,147 | 51.7 |
| 2017 | 14 | #7,884 | 8.1 |
| 2016 | 7 | #13,052 | 4.0 |
Every recorded year (31)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 7 | #13,326 | 4.0 |
| 2012 | 6 | #15,180 | 3.4 |
| 2011 | 7 | #13,511 | 4.0 |
| 2010 | 8 | #12,411 | 4.5 |
| 2008 | 9 | #11,708 | 4.8 |
| 2004 | 9 | #10,789 | 4.9 |
| 2003 | 11 | #9,108 | 6.0 |
| 2002 | 6 | #13,780 | 3.3 |
| 2001 | 7 | #12,212 | 3.9 |
| 2000 | 5 | #15,280 | 2.8 |
| 1996 | 5 | #13,722 | 2.9 |
| 1995 | 6 | #11,927 | 3.4 |
| 1988 | 6 | #10,464 | 3.4 |
| 1986 | 5 | #11,034 | 2.9 |
| 1985 | 5 | #10,790 | 2.9 |
| 1982 | 5 | #10,623 | 3.0 |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,093 | 3.7 |
| 1978 | 5 | #9,875 | 3.3 |
| 1974 | 5 | #8,865 | 3.4 |
| 1971 | 5 | #8,418 | 3.0 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,119 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Aruna a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Aruna has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 31 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Aruna: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Aruna, and how old are they?
An estimated 585 Americans named Aruna and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 7 years old and half are between 3 and 9. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 3,460 people named Aruna (3,288 women and girls, 172 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 310 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11.2 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 135,550 babies since 1880, Aruna is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 52 of their 2,589 babies (2.0%), the fifth most given that year.
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 Aruna
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 Aruna and names like it
- Compare Aruna and ArianaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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