Anubhav

Boys' name

Experience

Anubhav has been given to 10 babies in the U.S. since 1999. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1999, with 5 recorded.

Babies named Anubhav, 2003

1 in 760,000

Anubhav over time, 1880–2025

Boys

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Anubhav: meaning, origin, and history

Experience

Sanskrit

What Anubhav means

Anubhav means “experience”, associated with anubhava.

Origin, language, and formation

Anubhav is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

Anubhav comes through Sanskrit अनुभव.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 10 boys were recorded with the name Anubhav between 1999 and 2003. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1999; its best national rank was #10,005 in 1999.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Anubhav?

Anubhav had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2003, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2003: 1 in 760,000; 5 of 3,801,425 births
Among boys only: 1 in 395,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2003: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 526,991 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Anubhav 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 2003 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 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 526,991 children born in 2003 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Anubhav. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Anubhavs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Anubhav was born before 1999 — so the typical Anubhav is around 26 today.

Median birth year: 1999; About 26 years old
Biggest decade: 1990s; 50.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 10; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1990s — 50.0% of all recorded uses (5).

Is Anubhav 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: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1999 (5)
Years since peak: 26; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Not enough data; Too few years
Best rank ever: #10,005; 1999

Anubhav around the world

Where Anubhav 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.

South Australia
2009–2009
#708
in 2009

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Anubhav by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #10,005; 1999
Peak year: 1999; 5 that year
First recorded: 1999
Last recorded: 2003
All-time count: 10
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Anubhav

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

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Sibling names for Anubhav

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

For a sister

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For a brother

Jaren Marshal Maximillian Reyes Stone Devyn Garrison Tyrese

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