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Dhruv: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 195 in 2025. Its best rank was #997 in 2019.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #997 in 2019; #1,100 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Dhruv in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,100 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2019, at #997.
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Dhruv: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 195 boys in 2025. Peak: #997 in 2019 · most boys in one year: 210 (2019).
In 2025, 195 US boys were named Dhruv, making it the 1,100th most common boys’ name of the year, down 10 places from #1,090 in 2024. That is 4 fewer than the 199 boys named Dhruv in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #997, reached in 2019. That year also had the most boys given the name: 210. For comparison, it was #1,182 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Dhruv in 39 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1987 with 5 babies. In all, 4,474 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,699 babies named Dhruv.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,876 US boys were named Dhruv; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 210. In 2025 that was about 1 in 8,759 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Dhruv ranked highest in Washington in 2025, at #385 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 40 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Washington | 19 | #385 | #521 |
| Massachusetts | 9 | #521 | — |
| New Jersey | 13 | #550 | #418 |
| North Carolina | 13 | #687 | #1,025 |
| California | 38 | #711 | #800 |
| Texas | 34 | #795 | #1,114 |
| Virginia | 7 | #902 | #750 |
| Georgia | 9 | #934 | #1,125 |
| Pennsylvania | 8 | #938 | #1,066 |
| Tennessee | 6 | #952 | — |
| New York | 7 | #1,453 | #1,266 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 195 | #1,100 |
| 2024 | — | — | 199 | #1,090 |
| 2023 | — | — | 190 | #1,113 |
| 2022 | — | — | 201 | #1,084 |
| 2021 | — | — | 179 | #1,136 |
| 2020 | — | — | 189 | #1,059 |
| 2019 | — | — | 210 | #997 |
| 2018 | — | — | 185 | #1,074 |
| 2017 | — | — | 169 | #1,130 |
| 2016 | — | — | 159 | #1,194 |
| 2015 | — | — | 157 | #1,182 |
| 2014 | — | — | 167 | #1,138 |
| 2013 | — | — | 147 | #1,222 |
| 2012 | — | — | 162 | #1,130 |
| 2011 | — | — | 163 | #1,119 |
| 2010 | — | — | 180 | #1,073 |
| 2009 | — | — | 161 | #1,138 |
| 2008 | — | — | 166 | #1,106 |
| 2007 | — | — | 182 | #1,033 |
| 2006 | — | — | 138 | #1,218 |
| 2005 | — | — | 136 | #1,171 |
| 2004 | — | — | 159 | #1,030 |
| 2003 | — | — | 140 | #1,099 |
| 2002 | — | — | 105 | #1,289 |
| 2001 | — | — | 77 | #1,566 |
| 2000 | — | — | 71 | #1,644 |
| 1999 | — | — | 65 | #1,643 |
| 1998 | — | — | 45 | #2,077 |
| 1997 | — | — | 31 | #2,561 |
| 1996 | — | — | 26 | #2,855 |
| 1995 | — | — | 27 | #2,703 |
| 1994 | — | — | 16 | #3,965 |
| 1993 | — | — | 14 | #4,288 |
| 1992 | — | — | 11 | #4,965 |
| 1991 | — | — | 14 | #4,059 |
| 1990 | — | — | 15 | #3,827 |
| 1989 | — | — | 8 | #5,779 |
| 1988 | — | — | 10 | #4,530 |
| 1987 | — | — | 5 | #7,249 |
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).