Dhwani
Dhwani was given to 12 girls in 2025, #8,497 among girls’ names; 172 Americans have been recorded with it since 2002 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dhwani by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Dhwani mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Dhwani 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 Dhwani?
#8,497 among girls’ names, 2025
Dhwani rose from #11,140 in 2015 to #8,497 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 5.0 to 7.5 per million.
14 babies in 2016, the peak
Dhwani peaked in 2016, when 14 girls were given it, #8,105 among girls’ names. The 12 births of 2025 are 86% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #8,497 | 7.5 |
| 2024 | 12 | #8,576 | 7.4 |
| 2023 | 12 | #8,611 | 7.5 |
| 2022 | 7 | #12,584 | 4.3 |
| 2021 | 12 | #8,610 | 7.3 |
| 2020 | 11 | #9,102 | 6.8 |
| 2019 | 5 | #16,169 | 3.0 |
| 2018 | 8 | #11,675 | 4.7 |
| 2017 | 10 | #10,159 | 5.8 |
| 2016 | 14 | #8,105 | 7.9 |
Every recorded year (19)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 9 | #11,140 | 5.0 |
| 2013 | 6 | #15,130 | 3.4 |
| 2011 | 13 | #8,761 | 7.4 |
| 2010 | 5 | #17,731 | 2.8 |
| 2008 | 9 | #11,855 | 4.8 |
| 2007 | 8 | #13,000 | 4.2 |
| 2005 | 5 | #17,204 | 2.7 |
| 2003 | 8 | #11,593 | 4.4 |
| 2002 | 6 | #14,078 | 3.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Dhwani a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Dhwani has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 19 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Dhwani: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dhwani, and how old are they?
An estimated 171 Americans named Dhwani and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 4 and 15. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 468 people named Dhwani (445 women and girls, 23 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 108 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4.3 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 4 names spelled alike, given to 1,779 babies since 1880, Dhwani is the third most given (9.7% of them). In 2025 it was given to 12 of their 20 babies (60%), the 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 Dhwani
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 Dhwani and names like it
- Compare Dhwani and DwanaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sDhwani peaked in 2016.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Dhwani since 1910.
- Sanskrit namesWiktionary’s origin for Dhwani: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2016The year the most babies were named Dhwani.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Dhwani alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with DMost given first.