Dhvani
Dhvani was given to 8 girls in 2025, #11,182 among girls’ names; 86 Americans have been recorded with it since 2001 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dhvani by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Dhvani mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Dhvani is “a female given name from Sanskrit used in India.”
Borrowed from Sanskrit ध्वनि (dhvani).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Dhvani?
#11,182 among girls’ names, 2025
Dhvani rose from #14,988 in 2015 to #11,182 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 3.4 to 5.0 per million.
13 babies in 2020, the peak
Dhvani peaked in 2020, when 13 girls were given it, #8,086 among girls’ names. The 8 births of 2025 are 62% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #11,182 | 5.0 |
| 2024 | 5 | #15,901 | 3.1 |
| 2023 | 10 | #9,787 | 6.2 |
| 2022 | 9 | #10,588 | 5.5 |
| 2020 | 13 | #8,086 | 8.0 |
| 2019 | 5 | #16,168 | 3.0 |
| 2018 | 5 | #16,324 | 2.9 |
| 2017 | 6 | #14,604 | 3.5 |
| 2015 | 6 | #14,988 | 3.4 |
| 2006 | 6 | #15,651 | 3.2 |
Every recorded year (12)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 6 | #14,993 | 3.2 |
| 2001 | 7 | #12,407 | 3.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Dhvani a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Dhvani has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 12 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Dhvani: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dhvani, and how old are they?
An estimated 85 Americans named Dhvani and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 234 people named Dhvani (222 women and girls, 12 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 44 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5.3 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 2 names spelled alike, given to 258 babies since 1880, Dhvani is the second most given (33% of them). In 2025 it was given to 8 of their 20 babies (40%), again the second most given.
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 Dhvani
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 Dhvani and names like it
- Compare Dhvani and DhwaniBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sDhvani peaked in 2020.
- Sanskrit namesWiktionary’s origin for Dhvani: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2020The year the most babies were named Dhvani.
- Names starting with DMost given first.