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Dhruv

#1,100 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Dhruva

Dhruv has been given to 4,474 babies in the U.S. since 1987. In 2025 it ranked #1,100 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2019, with 210 recorded.

Babies named Dhruv, 2025

1 in 17,000

Dhruv over time, 1880–2025

Boys
010020030018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Dhruv: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Dhruva

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Dhruv means

Dhruv is a form of Dhruva.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Dhruv → Dhruva. The family’s meaning is “fixed, immovable, firm, stable”, recorded in the naming reference for Dhruva.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Dhruva.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,474 boys were recorded with the name Dhruv between 1987 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 210 in 2019; its best national rank was #997 in 2019.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,059 in 2020 to #1,100 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,182 in 2015 to #1,100 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.

How common is Dhruv?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 17,000
195 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 8,760
0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,100
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
11,785 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Dhruv 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 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 5003%

Put another way: gather 11,785 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Dhruv. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Dhruvs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Dhruv was born before 2013 — so the typical Dhruv is around 12 today.

Median birth year
2013
About 12 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
38.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
92.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
4,474
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 38.0% of all recorded uses (1,699).

Is Dhruv 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
−10
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−41
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+82
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.24×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
92.9%
Peak was 2019 (210)
Years since peak
6
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
8.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#997
2019

Spellings of Dhruv

Dhruv is the most-used spelling, taking 48.1% of the 9,310 babies given a near-identical spelling.

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 Dhruv is used

Across 2016–2025, Dhruv was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 3,030 boys, against 1 in 7,530 across all states with data. It was least common in Minnesota (1 in 50,000).

233 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 3,030
  2. 2Washington1 in 3,030
  3. 3Massachusetts1 in 3,704
  4. 4California1 in 5,000
  5. 5Virginia1 in 5,882
  6. 6North Carolina1 in 6,667
  7. 7Texas1 in 7,143
  8. 8Georgia1 in 7,692

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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.

Dhruv around the world

Where Dhruv 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
    1996–2025
    #716
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2011–2025
    #762
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2012–2025
    #262
    in 2025
  • France
    2017–2025
    #3,174
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1997–2024
    #564
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2011–2012
    #514
    in 2012

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

Notable people named Dhruv

People whose public names include Dhruv, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Dhruv by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,100
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 41
Best rank ever
#997
2019
Peak year
2019
210 that year
First recorded
1987
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,474
Count in 2025
195

Names similar to Dhruv

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

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Names with a curve like Dhruv

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Dhruv, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Dhruv

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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