Meaning not yet researched.
Arav: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 17 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,861 in 2008.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,861 in 2008; #5,412 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Arav in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,412 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2008, at #1,861.
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Arav: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 17 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,861 in 2008 · most boys in one year: 78 (2008).
In 2025, 17 US boys were named Arav, making it the 5,412th most common boys’ name of the year, down 156 places from #5,256 in 2024. That is 1 fewer than the 18 boys named Arav in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,861, reached in 2008. That year also had the most boys given the name: 78. For comparison, it was #2,646 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Arav in 25 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1999 with 5 babies. In all, 958 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 504 babies named Arav.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 278 US boys were named Arav; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 45. In 2025 that was about 1 in 100,475 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Aarav (8,209 babies since 1880) and Aariv (1,201 babies since 1880).
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.
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 Arav in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 17 | #5,412 |
| 2024 | — | — | 18 | #5,256 |
| 2023 | — | — | 13 | #6,552 |
| 2022 | — | — | 17 | #5,456 |
| 2021 | — | — | 24 | #4,252 |
| 2020 | — | — | 26 | #3,923 |
| 2019 | — | — | 39 | #3,057 |
| 2018 | — | — | 45 | #2,712 |
| 2017 | — | — | 36 | #3,196 |
| 2016 | — | — | 43 | #2,786 |
| 2015 | — | — | 46 | #2,646 |
| 2014 | — | — | 52 | #2,432 |
| 2013 | — | — | 70 | #1,966 |
| 2012 | — | — | 58 | #2,238 |
| 2011 | — | — | 47 | #2,592 |
| 2010 | — | — | 68 | #2,012 |
| 2009 | — | — | 70 | #1,990 |
| 2008 | — | — | 78 | #1,861 |
| 2007 | — | — | 60 | #2,215 |
| 2006 | — | — | 40 | #2,836 |
| 2005 | — | — | 30 | #3,321 |
| 2004 | — | — | 26 | #3,540 |
| 2003 | — | — | 20 | #4,124 |
| 2002 | — | — | 10 | #6,564 |
| 1999 | — | — | 5 | #10,015 |
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).