Dhruv
Dhruv was given to 195 boys in 2025, #1,100 among boys’ names; 4,474 Americans have been recorded with it since 1987 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,420 Americans named Dhruv and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 6 and 19.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dhruv by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Dhruv?
#1,100 among boys’ names, 2025
Dhruv rose from #1,182 in 2015 to #1,100 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.08 to 0.11 per 1,000.
210 babies in 2019, the peak
Dhruv peaked in 2019, when 210 boys were given it, #997 among boys’ names. The 195 births of 2025 are 93% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 195 | #1,100 | 0.11 |
| 2024 | 199 | #1,090 | 0.12 |
| 2023 | 190 | #1,113 | 0.11 |
| 2022 | 201 | #1,084 | 0.12 |
| 2021 | 179 | #1,136 | 0.10 |
| 2020 | 189 | #1,059 | 0.11 |
| 2019 | 210 | #997 | 0.12 |
| 2018 | 185 | #1,074 | 0.10 |
| 2017 | 169 | #1,130 | 0.09 |
| 2016 | 159 | #1,194 | 0.08 |
Every recorded year (39)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 157 | #1,182 | 0.08 |
| 2014 | 167 | #1,138 | 0.09 |
| 2013 | 147 | #1,222 | 0.08 |
| 2012 | 162 | #1,130 | 0.09 |
| 2011 | 163 | #1,119 | 0.09 |
| 2010 | 180 | #1,073 | 0.09 |
| 2009 | 161 | #1,138 | 0.08 |
| 2008 | 166 | #1,106 | 0.08 |
| 2007 | 182 | #1,033 | 0.09 |
| 2006 | 138 | #1,218 | 0.07 |
| 2005 | 136 | #1,170 | 0.07 |
| 2004 | 159 | #1,029 | 0.08 |
| 2003 | 140 | #1,098 | 0.07 |
| 2002 | 105 | #1,286 | 0.05 |
| 2001 | 77 | #1,562 | 0.04 |
| 2000 | 71 | #1,640 | 0.04 |
| 1999 | 65 | #1,640 | 0.03 |
| 1998 | 45 | #2,074 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 31 | #2,557 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 26 | #2,850 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 27 | #2,698 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 16 | #3,959 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 14 | #4,282 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 11 | #4,958 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 14 | #4,052 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 15 | #3,821 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 8 | #5,772 | under 0.01 |
| 1988 | 10 | #4,525 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 5 | #7,242 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Dhruv a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Dhruv has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 39 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Dhruv: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dhruv, and how old are they?
4,420 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 4,474 Americans ever recorded as Dhruv. The median Dhruv alive today is 13 years old; half are between 6 and 19.
The 2020 Census counted 4,611 people named Dhruv (7 women and girls, 4,604 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,336 born in the U.S. The Census count is 38% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 140 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,950 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,330 |
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 Dhruv born?
The states with the most babies named Dhruv are California, Texas and Washington, with 56% 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 | 38 | #711 | 1.4× |
| Texas | 34 | #795 | 1.0× |
| Washington | 19 | #385 | 1.6× |
| New Jersey | 13 | #550 | 4.0× |
| North Carolina | 13 | #687 | 0.8× |
| Georgia | 9 | #934 | 1.0× |
| Massachusetts | 9 | #521 | 1.6× |
| Pennsylvania | 8 | #938 | 0.7× |
| New York | 7 | #1,453 | 0.8× |
| Virginia | 7 | #902 | 1.3× |
Where Dhruv is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Dhruv is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 1987 it was given 4.0 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 Dhruv 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 Dhruv
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 Dhruv and names like it
- Compare Dhruv and IliasBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sDhruv peaked in 2019.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Dhruv since 1910.
- The top names of 2019The year the most babies were named Dhruv.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Dhruv alive today were born 2013-2025.
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