Shaurya
Shaurya was given to 155 boys in 2025, #1,274 among boys’ names; 1,705 Americans have been recorded with it since 2000 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,690 Americans named Shaurya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 5 and 14.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shaurya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Shaurya mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Shaurya is “a male given name from Sanskrit used in India.”
Borrowed from Sanskrit शौर्य (śaurya).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Shaurya?
#1,274 among boys’ names, 2025
Shaurya rose from #1,586 in 2015 to #1,274 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 53.2 to 90.7 per million.
155 babies in 2025, the peak
Shaurya peaked in 2025, when 155 boys were given it, #1,274 among boys’ names. In 2024 it went to 87 boys.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 155 | #1,274 | 90.7 |
| 2024 | 87 | #1,861 | 50.5 |
| 2023 | 87 | #1,847 | 50.9 |
| 2022 | 79 | #1,962 | 45.2 |
| 2021 | 82 | #1,882 | 46.9 |
| 2020 | 99 | #1,632 | 57.4 |
| 2019 | 88 | #1,773 | 49.0 |
| 2018 | 104 | #1,592 | 57.3 |
| 2017 | 111 | #1,507 | 60.0 |
| 2016 | 87 | #1,773 | 45.8 |
Every recorded year (26)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 102 | #1,586 | 53.2 |
| 2014 | 82 | #1,823 | 42.7 |
| 2013 | 75 | #1,895 | 39.6 |
| 2012 | 58 | #2,261 | 30.6 |
| 2011 | 76 | #1,858 | 40.0 |
| 2010 | 78 | #1,864 | 40.7 |
| 2009 | 81 | #1,837 | 40.8 |
| 2008 | 56 | #2,341 | 27.4 |
| 2007 | 38 | #3,073 | 18.3 |
| 2006 | 23 | #4,194 | 11.2 |
| 2005 | 8 | #8,956 | 4.0 |
| 2004 | 12 | #6,448 | 6.0 |
| 2003 | 11 | #6,645 | 5.6 |
| 2002 | 14 | #5,345 | 7.2 |
| 2001 | 7 | #9,072 | 3.6 |
| 2000 | 5 | #11,844 | 2.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Shaurya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Shaurya 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 Shaurya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shaurya, and how old are they?
1,690 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,705 Americans ever recorded as Shaurya. The median Shaurya alive today is 9 years old; half are between 5 and 14.
The 2020 Census counted 1,374 people named Shaurya (41 women and girls, 1,333 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,132 born in the U.S. The Census count is 21% 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 | 462 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,230 |
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 Shaurya born?
The states with the most babies named Shaurya are California, Texas and Washington, with 54% 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 | #784 | 1.6× |
| Texas | 24 | #1,005 | 0.9× |
| Washington | 17 | #440 | 1.2× |
| New Jersey | 10 | #695 | 3.9× |
| Illinois | 7 | #1,119 | 1.2× |
| Florida | 7 | #1,597 | 0.1× |
| North Carolina | 7 | #1,125 | 0.2× |
| Indiana | 7 | #832 | 0.2× |
| Georgia | 6 | #1,332 | 0.9× |
| Michigan | 5 | #1,237 | 0.5× |
Where Shaurya is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Shaurya is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 2000 it was given 3.9 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 Shaurya 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 Shaurya
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 Shaurya and names like it
- Compare Shaurya and AayanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sShaurya peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shaurya since 1910.
- Sanskrit namesWiktionary’s origin for Shaurya: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Shaurya.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Shaurya alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with SMost given first.