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Atharva: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 72 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,939 in 2020.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,939 in 2020; #2,057 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Atharva in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,057 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2020, at #1,939.
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Atharva: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 72 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,939 in 2020 · most boys in one year: 75 (2020).
In 2025, 72 US boys were named Atharva, making it the 2,057th most common boys’ name of the year, up 134 places from #2,191 in 2024. That is 6 more than the 66 boys named Atharva in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,939, reached in 2020. That year also had the most boys given the name: 75. For comparison, it was #2,649 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Atharva in 27 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1999 with 7 babies. In all, 1,094 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 449 babies named Atharva.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 587 US boys were named Atharva; the busiest of those years was 2020, with 75. In 2025 that was about 1 in 23,723 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Atharva ranked highest in New Jersey in 2025, at #1,035 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state.
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US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 48 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,035 | #861 |
| Texas | 15 | #1,300 | — |
| California | 14 | #1,303 | #1,551 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 72 | #2,057 |
| 2024 | — | — | 66 | #2,191 |
| 2023 | — | — | 57 | #2,388 |
| 2022 | — | — | 68 | #2,151 |
| 2021 | — | — | 56 | #2,415 |
| 2020 | — | — | 75 | #1,939 |
| 2019 | — | — | 61 | #2,267 |
| 2018 | — | — | 43 | #2,802 |
| 2017 | — | — | 47 | #2,638 |
| 2016 | — | — | 42 | #2,839 |
| 2015 | — | — | 46 | #2,649 |
| 2014 | — | — | 39 | #2,935 |
| 2013 | — | — | 41 | #2,809 |
| 2012 | — | — | 45 | #2,680 |
| 2011 | — | — | 44 | #2,703 |
| 2010 | — | — | 41 | #2,876 |
| 2009 | — | — | 41 | #2,901 |
| 2008 | — | — | 43 | #2,791 |
| 2007 | — | — | 30 | #3,516 |
| 2006 | — | — | 20 | #4,529 |
| 2005 | — | — | 26 | #3,626 |
| 2004 | — | — | 23 | #3,868 |
| 2003 | — | — | 14 | #5,292 |
| 2002 | — | — | 19 | #4,197 |
| 2001 | — | — | 18 | #4,314 |
| 2000 | — | — | 10 | #6,361 |
| 1999 | — | — | 7 | #7,937 |
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).