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Bharat

Boys' name

Form of Bharata

Bharat has been given to 178 babies in the U.S. since 1980. 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 1997, with 15 recorded.

Babies named Bharat, 2009

1 in 424,000

Bharat over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Bharat: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Bharata

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Bharat means

Bharat is a form of Bharata.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Bharat is used in Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati and Nepali.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Bharata.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 178 boys were recorded with the name Bharat between 1980 and 2009. Its highest annual count was 15 in 1997; its best national rank was #4,262 in 1997.

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.

How common is Bharat?

Bharat had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2009, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2009
1 in 424,000
9 of 3,820,315 births
Among boys only
1 in 220,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2009
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
294,228 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Bharat 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 2009 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 294,228 children born in 2009 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Bharat. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Bharats were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Bharat was born before 1996 — so the typical Bharat is around 29 today.

Median birth year
1996
About 29 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
34.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
86.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
178
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 34.8% of all recorded uses (62).

Is Bharat 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
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1997 (15)
Years since peak
28
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
41.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,262
1997

Spellings of Bharat

Bharat is not the most common spelling — Bart is, with 87.6% against Bharat's 0.95%.

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.

Bharat around the world

Where Bharat 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
    1996–2002
    #3,225
    in 2002
  • South Australia
    1981–2011
    #784
    in 2011

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.

Bharat 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
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Best rank ever
#4,262
1997
Peak year
1997
15 that year
First recorded
1980
Last recorded
2009
All-time count
178
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Bharat

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

BhargavBhavikBhavinSamratBhavyaBhaveshBharathMuratViratJaskiratMaratGurkiratBeratKeeratBisratMankiratHarkiratBhavithSharatBhargavaKiratMonserratMonzerrat

Sibling names for Bharat

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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