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Gaurav

#12,652 in 2025Boys' name

Importance, dignity

Gaurav has been given to 714 babies in the U.S. since 1975. In 2025 it ranked #12,652 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2003, with 36 recorded.

Babies named Gaurav, 2025

1 in 663,000

Gaurav over time, 1880–2025

Boys
01020304018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Gaurav: meaning, origin, and history

Importance, dignity

Sanskrit

What Gaurav means

Gaurav means “importance, dignity”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Gaurav is used in Hindi.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈɡɔː.ɾəʋ/ for Gaurav.

Origin, language, and formation

Gaurav is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 714 boys were recorded with the name Gaurav between 1975 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 36 in 2003; its best national rank was #2,301 in 1983.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #12,689 in 2020 to #12,652 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #6,802 in 2015 to #12,652 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Gaurav?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 342,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#12,652
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Gaurav 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Gaurav. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Gauravs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Gaurav was born before 2000 — so the typical Gaurav is around 25 today.

Median birth year
2000
About 25 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
35.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
49.9%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
714
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 35.3% of all recorded uses (252).

Is Gaurav 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
−1,274
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+37
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−5,850
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.42×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
13.9%
Peak was 2003 (36)
Years since peak
22
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,301
1983

Spellings of Gaurav

Gaurav is not the most common spelling — Aarav is, with 62.3% against Gaurav's 5.4%.

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 Gaurav is used

Across 1910–2025, Gaurav was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 229,424 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2New Jersey1 in —
  3. 3New York1 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. Gaurav has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Gaurav around the world

Where Gaurav 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
    1996–2021
    #3,451
    in 2021
  • Canada
    1991–2011
    #2,141
    in 2011
  • South Australia
    1997–2013
    #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.

Gaurav by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#12,652
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 37
Best rank ever
#2,301
1983
Peak year
2003
36 that year
First recorded
1975
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
714
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Gaurav

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

GautamGauthamKairavNiravGaugeAravNeeravSauravShaaravAaravGaurikSharavGaudencioPuravKiravMiravMairavAiravIrav

Sibling names for Gaurav

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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