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Aruna

#3,106 in 2025Girls' name

Reddish brown, dawn

Aruna has been given to 591 babies in the U.S. since 1970. In 2025 it ranked #3,106 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2018, with 88 recorded.

Babies named Aruna, 2025

1 in 63,800

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Aruna: meaning, origin, and history

Reddish brown, dawn

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Aruna means

Aruna means “reddish brown, dawn”.

Origin, language, and formation

Aruna is used in English.

Aruna comes through Sanskrit अरुण.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 591 girls were recorded with the name Aruna between 1970 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 88 in 2018; its best national rank was #2,147 in 2018.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #3,926 in 2020 to #3,106 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 Aruna?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 63,800
52 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 30,900
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#3,106
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
44,191 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Aruna 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 44,191 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Aruna. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Arunas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Aruna was born before 2019 — so the typical Aruna is around 6 today.

Median birth year
2019
About 6 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
48.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
89.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
591
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2020s — 48.6% of all recorded uses (287).

Is Aruna 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
−306
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+820
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
59.1%
Peak was 2018 (88)
Years since peak
7
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
62.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,147
2018

Spellings of Aruna

Aruna is not the most common spelling — Anna is, with 48.3% against Aruna's 0.03%.

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 Aruna is used

Across 1910–2025, Aruna was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 300,782 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3Florida1 in —
  4. 4Massachusetts1 in —
  5. 5North Carolina1 in —
  6. 6New Jersey1 in —
  7. 7New York1 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. Aruna has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Aruna around the world

Where Aruna 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
    1998–2020
    #4,535
    in 2020
  • South Australia
    2003–2003
    #739
    in 2003

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Aruna by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#3,106
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 820
Best rank ever
#2,147
2018
Peak year
2018
88 that year
First recorded
1970
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
591
Count in 2025
52

Names similar to Aruna

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

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Sibling names for Aruna

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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