Atharv
Atharv was given to 187 boys in 2025, #1,132 among boys’ names; 2,385 Americans have been recorded with it since 2000 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,370 Americans named Atharv and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 6 years old and half are between 3 and 10.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Atharv by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Atharv mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Atharv is “a male given name from Sanskrit used in India.”
Borrowed from Sanskrit अथर्व (atharva).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Atharv?
#1,132 among boys’ names, 2025
Atharv rose from #1,703 in 2015 to #1,132 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.05 to 0.11 per 1,000.
224 babies in 2024, the peak
Atharv peaked in 2024, when 224 boys were given it, #1,001 among boys’ names. The 187 births of 2025 are 83% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 187 | #1,132 | 0.11 |
| 2024 | 224 | #1,001 | 0.13 |
| 2023 | 222 | #992 | 0.13 |
| 2022 | 223 | #998 | 0.13 |
| 2021 | 217 | #1,006 | 0.12 |
| 2020 | 204 | #1,018 | 0.12 |
| 2019 | 139 | #1,313 | 0.08 |
| 2018 | 139 | #1,306 | 0.08 |
| 2017 | 127 | #1,384 | 0.07 |
| 2016 | 121 | #1,433 | 0.06 |
Every recorded year (26)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 91 | #1,703 | 0.05 |
| 2014 | 75 | #1,920 | 0.04 |
| 2013 | 72 | #1,930 | 0.04 |
| 2012 | 76 | #1,892 | 0.04 |
| 2011 | 59 | #2,204 | 0.03 |
| 2010 | 51 | #2,430 | 0.03 |
| 2009 | 40 | #2,949 | 0.02 |
| 2008 | 27 | #3,833 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 26 | #3,906 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 15 | #5,542 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 17 | #4,832 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 5 | #11,502 | under 0.01 |
| 2003 | 9 | #7,282 | under 0.01 |
| 2002 | 5 | #10,820 | under 0.01 |
| 2001 | 6 | #9,342 | under 0.01 |
| 2000 | 8 | #7,487 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Atharv a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Atharv has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 26 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Atharv: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Atharv, and how old are they?
2,370 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,385 Americans ever recorded as Atharv. The median Atharv alive today is 6 years old; half are between 3 and 10.
The 2020 Census counted 1,227 people named Atharv (0 women and girls, 1,227 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,151 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 340 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,030 |
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 Atharv born?
The states with the most babies named Atharv are California, Texas and Washington, with 50% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Washington is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 33 | #776 | 1.6× |
| Texas | 28 | #892 | 1.0× |
| Washington | 16 | #449 | 2.2× |
| New Jersey | 13 | #546 | 3.1× |
| Illinois | 13 | #683 | 1.3× |
| Georgia | 9 | #923 | 1.1× |
| North Carolina | 8 | #945 | 0.8× |
| New York | 7 | #1,429 | 0.2× |
| Florida | 6 | #1,645 | 0.3× |
| Indiana | 6 | #855 | 0.1× |
Where Atharv is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Atharv is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 2000 it was given 3.1 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 Atharv with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Atharv
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 Atharv and names like it
- Compare Atharv and TownesBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sAtharv peaked in 2024.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Atharv since 1910.
- Sanskrit namesWiktionary’s origin for Atharv: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Atharv.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Atharv alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.