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Madhav

#3,417 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Madhava

Madhav has been given to 642 babies in the U.S. since 1992. In 2025 it ranked #3,417 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 35 recorded.

Babies named Madhav, 2025

1 in 97,500

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Madhav: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Madhava

Hindi

What Madhav means

Madhav is a form of Madhava.

Origin, language, and formation

Madhav is used in English. Its origins include Hindi.

Madhav comes through Hindi माधव.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Madhava.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 642 boys were recorded with the name Madhav between 1992 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 35 in 2023; its best national rank was #3,392 in 2023.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #5,377 in 2020 to #3,417 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #3,945 in 2015 to #3,417 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 Madhav?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 97,500
34 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 50,200
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,417
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
67,586 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Madhav 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 67,586 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Madhav. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Madhavs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Madhav was born before 2015 — so the typical Madhav is around 10 today.

Median birth year
2015
About 10 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
39.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
92.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
642
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Choose a decade

2010s — 39.4% of all recorded uses (253).

Is Madhav 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
+13
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,960
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+528
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.26×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
97.1%
Peak was 2023 (35)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
25.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,392
2023

Spellings of Madhav

Madhav is not the most common spelling — Raghav is, with 19.7% against Madhav's 9.5%.

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 Madhav is used

Across 1910–2025, Madhav was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 325,304 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2Florida1 in —
  3. 3Texas1 in —
  4. 4Virginia1 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. Madhav has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Madhav around the world

Where Madhav 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
    2001–2025
    #1,124
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2001–2024
    #1,037
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2005–2005
    #643
    in 2005

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.

Madhav by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,417
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,960
Best rank ever
#3,392
2023
Peak year
2023
35 that year
First recorded
1992
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
642
Count in 2025
34

Names similar to Madhav

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

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Sibling names for Madhav

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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