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Bharath

Boys' name

Form of Bharata

Bharath has been given to 92 babies in the U.S. since 1989. 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 2000, with 8 recorded.

Babies named Bharath, 2021

1 in 678,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Bharath: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Bharata

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Bharath means

Bharath is a form of Bharata.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Bharath is used in Tamil, Malayalam and Telugu.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Bharata.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 92 boys were recorded with the name Bharath between 1989 and 2021. Its highest annual count was 8 in 2000; its best national rank was #7,034 in 1989.

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 Bharath?

Bharath had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2021, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2021
1 in 678,000
5 of 3,389,958 births
Among boys only
1 in 350,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2021
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
469,949 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Bharath 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 2021 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 469,949 children born in 2021 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Bharath. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Bharaths were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Bharath was born before 2001 — so the typical Bharath is around 24 today.

Median birth year
2001
About 24 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
52.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
76.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
92
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 52.2% of all recorded uses (48).

Is Bharath 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 2000 (8)
Years since peak
25
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
17.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#7,034
1989

Spellings of Bharath

Bharath is not the most common spelling — Pharaoh is, with 61.5% against Bharath's 2.8%.

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.

Bharath around the world

Where Bharath 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
    2009–2009
    #4,527
    in 2009
  • South Australia
    1976–1976
    #651
    in 1976

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.

Bharath 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
#7,034
1989
Peak year
2000
8 that year
First recorded
1989
Last recorded
2021
All-time count
92
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Bharath

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

BhargavSamrathBhaveshBhavyaAshwathSabbathBharatAshvathBhavikBhavinAkshathGoliathSrinathSambathSarathBhavithJonathMuathSanathSharathArdathVikyathMathKeath

Sibling names for Bharath

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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