Gowtham
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Gowtham has been given to 66 babies in the U.S. since 2007. 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 2015, with 9 recorded.
Babies named Gowtham, 2020
1 in 668,000
Gowtham over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Gowtham?
Gowtham had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2020, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2020
- 1 in 668,000
- 5 of 3,342,313 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 345,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2020
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 463,344 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Gowtham sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2020 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 463,344 children born in 2020 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Gowtham. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Gowthams were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Gowtham was born before 2015 — so the typical Gowtham is around 10 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 75.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 66
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 75.8% of all recorded uses (50).
Is Gowtham 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 2015 (9)
- Years since peak
- 10
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 24.4% average annual change
Spellings of Gowtham
Gowtham is not the most common spelling — Jotham is, with 91.2% against Gowtham's 8.8%.
- Jotham91.2%681
- Gowtham8.8%66
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.
Gowtham around the world
Where Gowtham 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 & Wales2015–2015#4,747in 2015
- France1993–2000#2,875in 2000
- Canada1998–1998#1,953in 1998
- South Australia2008–2008#726in 2008
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Gowtham by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Gowtham
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Gowtham
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.