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Aarav

#710 in 2025Boys' name

Sound; loud noise

Aarav has been given to 8,209 babies in the U.S. since 2002. In 2025 it ranked #710 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2015, with 541 recorded.

Babies named Aarav, 2025

1 in 8,790

Aarav over time, 1880–2025

Boys
020040060018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Aarav: meaning, origin, and history

Sound; loud noise

Hindi

What Aarav means

Aarav means “sound; loud noise”, associated with ārav.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Transliteration of Hindi आरव (ārav, “sound; loud noise”).

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Aarav (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Aarav is used in English. Its origins include Hindi.

Aarav comes through Hindi आरव.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include आरव.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 8,209 boys were recorded with the name Aarav between 2002 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 541 in 2015; its best national rank was #523 in 2014.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #638 in 2020 to #710 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #529 in 2015 to #710 in 2025.

How common is Aarav?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 8,790
377 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 4,530
0.02% of boys
Rank, 2025
#710
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
6,096 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Aarav sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 1001%
School of 5006%

Put another way: gather 6,096 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Aarav. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Aaravs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Aarav was born before 2016 — so the typical Aarav is around 9 today.

Median birth year
2016
About 9 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
58.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
8,209
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 58.8% of all recorded uses (4,828).

Is Aarav rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−34
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−72
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−181
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.70×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
69.7%
Peak was 2015 (541)
Years since peak
10
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
15.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#523
2014

Spellings of Aarav

Aarav is not the most common spelling — Aaron is, with 89.1% against Aarav's 1.2%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Aarav is used

Across 2016–2025, Aarav was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 1,136 boys, against 1 in 3,362 across all states with data. It was least common in South Carolina (1 in 50,000).

288 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 1,136
  2. 2Washington1 in 1,538
  3. 3Massachusetts1 in 2,083
  4. 4Connecticut1 in 2,273
  5. 5California1 in 2,326
  6. 6Illinois1 in 2,381
  7. 7Virginia1 in 2,703
  8. 8Delaware1 in 3,125

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Geographically, Aarav is one of the more regionally concentrated names in the country — more concentrated than 81% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Aarav around the world

Where Aarav ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2003–2025
    #257
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2009–2025
    #647
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2016–2016
    #421
    in 2016
  • Ireland
    2009–2025
    #286
    in 2025
  • France
    2011–2025
    #3,836
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2004–2024
    #215
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2008–2013
    #165
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Aarav by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#710
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 72
Best rank ever
#523
2014
Peak year
2015
541 that year
First recorded
2002
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
8,209
Count in 2025
377

Names similar to Aarav

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

AarushAarizAarivAaryanAarinAarenAarynAaricAaryaAarnavAaranAarionAarikAarronAarishNiravAaritAaryavAravAaronAaribAarisGauravAarian

Names with a curve like Aarav

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Aarav, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

CasenZaidenKasenCaseRayanRaydenJadielLennonMaddenVihaanRaylanKamden

Sibling names for Aarav

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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