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Aparna

#15,163 in 2025Girls' name

Leafless + leaf

Aparna has been given to 522 babies in the U.S. since 1970. In 2025 it ranked #15,163 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2004, with 27 recorded.

Babies named Aparna, 2025

1 in 663,000

Aparna over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Aparna: meaning, origin, and history

Leafless + leaf

Sanskrit

What Aparna means

Aparna means “leafless + leaf”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Aparna is used in Hinduism, Hindi, Marathi, Malayalam, Tamil, Kannada, Telugu and Bengali.

Origin, language, and formation

Aparna is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 522 girls were recorded with the name Aparna between 1970 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 27 in 2004; its best national rank was #4,374 in 1975.

Over 10 years its rank fell, from #13,141 in 2015 to #15,163 in 2025.

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 Aparna?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 321,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#15,163
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Aparna sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Aparna. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Aparnas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Aparna was born before 1998 — so the typical Aparna is around 27 today.

Median birth year
1998
About 27 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
33.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
41.6%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
522
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 33.0% of all recorded uses (172).

Is Aparna 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,022
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.71×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
18.5%
Peak was 2004 (27)
Years since peak
21
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
35.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,374
1975

Spellings of Aparna

Aparna is not the most common spelling — Alana is, with 25.0% against Aparna's 0.19%.

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 Aparna is used

Across 1910–2025, Aparna was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 400,319 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Aparna has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Aparna around the world

Where Aparna 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
    2001–2015
    #4,736
    in 2015
  • France
    1996–2006
    #5,622
    in 2006
  • Canada
    2002–2006
    #2,129
    in 2006
  • South Australia
    1984–1984
    #661
    in 1984

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

Aparna by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#15,163
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#4,374
1975
Peak year
2004
27 that year
First recorded
1970
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
522
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Aparna

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

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Sibling names for Aparna

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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