Meaning not yet researched.
Aarav: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 377 in 2025. Its best rank was #523 in 2014.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #523 in 2014; #710 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Aarav in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#710 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2014, at #523.
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Aarav: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 377 boys in 2025. Peak: #523 in 2014 · most boys in one year: 541 (2015).
In 2025, 377 US boys were named Aarav, making it the 710th most common boys’ name of the year, down 34 places from #676 in 2024. That is 27 fewer than the 404 boys named Aarav in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #523, reached in 2014. The most boys given the name in a single year was 541, in 2015. For comparison, it was #529 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Aarav in 24 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2002 with 6 babies. In all, 8,209 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 4,828 babies named Aarav.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 4,397 US boys were named Aarav; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 526. In 2025 that was about 1 in 4,531 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Aarav ranked highest in Washington in 2025, at #282 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Aariv (1,201 babies since 1880) and Arav (958 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Aaryav, Aryav and Ariv are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Aaryav (295), Aryav (252), Ariv (217), Arev (74), Airav (7).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Aarav in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 34 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Washington | 26 | #282 | #494 |
| New Jersey | 30 | #293 | #159 |
| Maryland | 12 | #407 | #362 |
| California | 68 | #465 | #392 |
| New York | 30 | #527 | #550 |
| Pennsylvania | 17 | #546 | #474 |
| Massachusetts | 8 | #555 | #362 |
| Texas | 54 | #575 | #643 |
| Illinois | 13 | #677 | #351 |
| Colorado | 7 | #680 | #685 |
| Georgia | 13 | #710 | #390 |
| Indiana | 8 | #711 | — |
| Virginia | 9 | #727 | #444 |
| Ohio | 11 | #750 | #493 |
| Michigan | 9 | #768 | #532 |
| North Carolina | 11 | #775 | #469 |
| Florida | 6 | #1,625 | #869 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 377 | #710 |
| 2024 | — | — | 404 | #676 |
| 2023 | — | — | 408 | #666 |
| 2022 | — | — | 406 | #673 |
| 2021 | — | — | 431 | #639 |
| 2020 | — | — | 419 | #638 |
| 2019 | — | — | 419 | #642 |
| 2018 | — | — | 488 | #565 |
| 2017 | — | — | 526 | #539 |
| 2016 | — | — | 519 | #552 |
| 2015 | — | — | 541 | #529 |
| 2014 | — | — | 531 | #523 |
| 2013 | — | — | 495 | #535 |
| 2012 | — | — | 435 | #586 |
| 2011 | — | — | 436 | #574 |
| 2010 | — | — | 438 | #577 |
| 2009 | — | — | 270 | #816 |
| 2008 | — | — | 219 | #926 |
| 2007 | — | — | 161 | #1,120 |
| 2006 | — | — | 144 | #1,172 |
| 2005 | — | — | 70 | #1,838 |
| 2004 | — | — | 41 | #2,599 |
| 2003 | — | — | 25 | #3,528 |
| 2002 | — | — | 6 | #9,393 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).