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Dhaval

Boys' name

Dazzling white

Dhaval has been given to 94 babies in the U.S. since 1982. 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 1995, with 13 recorded.

Babies named Dhaval, 2001

1 in 748,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Dhaval: meaning, origin, and history

Dazzling white

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Dhaval means

Dhaval means “dazzling white”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Dhaval is used in Marathi and Gujarati.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 94 boys were recorded with the name Dhaval between 1982 and 2001. Its highest annual count was 13 in 1995; its best national rank was #4,584 in 1995.

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 Dhaval?

Dhaval had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2001, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2001
1 in 748,000
5 of 3,742,181 births
Among boys only
1 in 388,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2001
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
518,778 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Dhaval 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 2001 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 518,778 children born in 2001 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Dhaval. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Dhavals were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Dhaval was born before 1994 — so the typical Dhaval is around 31 today.

Median birth year
1994
About 31 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
66.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
94
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 66.0% of all recorded uses (62).

Is Dhaval 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 1995 (13)
Years since peak
30
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
53.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,584
1995

Spellings of Dhaval

Dhaval is not the most common spelling — Duval is, with 85.0% against Dhaval's 15.0%.

  • Duval85.0%532
  • Dhaval15.0%94

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.

Dhaval around the world

Where Dhaval 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
    1996–2003
    #3,467
    in 2003

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Dhaval 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
#4,584
1995
Peak year
1995
13 that year
First recorded
1982
Last recorded
2001
All-time count
94
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Dhaval

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

DhanvinDhariusDhairyaDhanushDhamirDharmaDharvikDhaniArvalKevalDhakshYuvalDharvDevalAnivalDharmLavalDhaneDharmikDharioDhameerDhahranDhaneshDhati

Sibling names for Dhaval

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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