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Dhruva

#2,309 in 2025Boys' name

Fixed, immovable, firm, stable

Dhruva has been given to 744 babies in the U.S. since 1997. In 2025 it ranked #2,309 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2019, with 64 recorded.

Babies named Dhruva, 2025

1 in 55,300

Dhruva over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Dhruva: meaning, origin, and history

Fixed, immovable, firm, stable

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Dhruva means

Dhruva means “fixed, immovable, firm, stable”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 744 boys were recorded with the name Dhruva between 1997 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 64 in 2019; its best national rank was #2,192 in 2019.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #2,592 in 2020 to #2,309 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #4,586 in 2015 to #2,309 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 Dhruva?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 55,300
60 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 28,500
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,309
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
38,299 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Dhruva 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 38,299 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Dhruva. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Dhruvas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Dhruva was born before 2018 — so the typical Dhruva is around 7 today.

Median birth year
2018
About 7 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
42.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
96.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
744
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 42.7% of all recorded uses (318).

Is Dhruva 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
+493
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+283
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+2,277
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.86×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
93.8%
Peak was 2019 (64)
Years since peak
6
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,192
2019

Spellings of Dhruva

Dhruva is not the most common spelling — Dhruv is, with 85.7% against Dhruva's 14.3%.

  • Dhruv85.7%4,474
  • Dhruva14.3%744

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 Dhruva is used

Across 1910–2025, Dhruva was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 219,085 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2New Jersey1 in 100,000
  3. 3Georgia1 in —
  4. 4Illinois1 in —
  5. 5Texas1 in —
  6. 6Virginia1 in —
  7. 7Washington1 in —

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. Dhruva has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Dhruva around the world

Where Dhruva 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
    2006–2025
    #2,952
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2016–2022
    #2,335
    in 2022
  • South Australia
    2006–2013
    #754
    in 2013

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

Dhruva by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,309
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 283
Best rank ever
#2,192
2019
Peak year
2019
64 that year
First recorded
1997
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
744
Count in 2025
60

Names similar to Dhruva

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

DhruvanDhruvDhruvinDhrishYuvaDhruvikDhruvreddyDhruvanshDhruDhruvah

Sibling names for Dhruva

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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