Atharva
Atharva was given to 72 boys in 2025, #2,057 among boys’ names; 1,094 Americans have been recorded with it since 1999 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,080 Americans named Atharva and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 5 and 16.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Atharva by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Atharva?
#2,057 among boys’ names, 2025
Atharva rose from #2,648 in 2015 to #2,057 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 24.0 to 42.2 per million.
75 babies in 2020, the peak
Atharva peaked in 2020, when 75 boys were given it, #1,939 among boys’ names. The 72 births of 2025 are 96% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 72 | #2,057 | 42.2 |
| 2024 | 66 | #2,191 | 38.3 |
| 2023 | 57 | #2,387 | 33.3 |
| 2022 | 68 | #2,150 | 38.9 |
| 2021 | 56 | #2,414 | 32.0 |
| 2020 | 75 | #1,939 | 43.5 |
| 2019 | 61 | #2,266 | 34.0 |
| 2018 | 43 | #2,801 | 23.7 |
| 2017 | 47 | #2,637 | 25.4 |
| 2016 | 42 | #2,838 | 22.1 |
Every recorded year (27)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 46 | #2,648 | 24.0 |
| 2014 | 39 | #2,933 | 20.3 |
| 2013 | 41 | #2,807 | 21.7 |
| 2012 | 45 | #2,679 | 23.7 |
| 2011 | 44 | #2,702 | 23.2 |
| 2010 | 41 | #2,875 | 21.4 |
| 2009 | 41 | #2,900 | 20.7 |
| 2008 | 43 | #2,790 | 21.1 |
| 2007 | 30 | #3,514 | 14.5 |
| 2006 | 20 | #4,525 | 9.7 |
| 2005 | 26 | #3,622 | 13.0 |
| 2004 | 23 | #3,863 | 11.6 |
| 2003 | 14 | #5,286 | 7.1 |
| 2002 | 19 | #4,191 | 9.8 |
| 2001 | 18 | #4,308 | 9.3 |
| 2000 | 10 | #6,353 | 5.1 |
| 1999 | 7 | #7,930 | 3.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Atharva a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Atharva has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 27 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Atharva: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Atharva, and how old are they?
1,080 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,094 Americans ever recorded as Atharva. The median Atharva alive today is 10 years old; half are between 5 and 16.
The 2020 Census counted 914 people named Atharva (8 women and girls, 906 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 713 born in the U.S. The Census count is 28% above 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 376 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 708 |
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 Atharva born?
The states with the most babies named Atharva are Texas, California and New Jersey, with 100% 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 | 15 | #1,300 | 0.5× |
| California | 14 | #1,303 | 1.6× |
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,035 | 2.9× |
Where Atharva is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Atharva is most over-represented in California: since 1999 it was given 1.6 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 Atharva 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 Atharva
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 Atharva and names like it
- Compare Atharva and MakaiBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sAtharva peaked in 2020.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Atharva since 1910.
- The top names of 2020The year the most babies were named Atharva.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Atharva alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.