In 2025, 15 US boys were named Varun, making it the 6,111th most common boys’ name of the year, down 684 places from #5,427 in 2024. That is 3 fewer than the 18 boys named Varun in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,094, reached in 2004. That year also had the most boys given the name: 145. For comparison, it was #2,409 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Varun in 45 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1981 with 5 babies. In all, 2,598 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 1,146 babies named Varun.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 310 US boys were named Varun; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 47. In 2025 that was about 1 in 113,872 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Varian, Varen and Vairon are summarised on this page.