Saurabh

Boys' name

Fragrance, aroma

Saurabh has been given to 72 babies in the U.S. since 1977. 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 1998, with 10 recorded.

Babies named Saurabh, 2021

1 in 678,000

Saurabh over time, 1880–2025

Boys

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Saurabh: meaning, origin, and history

Fragrance, aroma

Sanskrit

What Saurabh means

Saurabh means “fragrance, aroma”, associated with saurabha.

Origin, language, and formation

Saurabh is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 72 boys were recorded with the name Saurabh between 1977 and 2021. Its highest annual count was 10 in 1998; its best national rank was #6,113 in 1980.

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 Saurabh?

Saurabh had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2021, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2021: 1 in 678,000; 5 of 3,389,958 births
Among boys only: 1 in 350,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2021: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 469,949 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Saurabh 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 2021 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 469,949 children born in 2021 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Saurabh. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Saurabhs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Saurabh was born before 1993 — so the typical Saurabh is around 32 today.

Median birth year: 1993; About 32 years old
Biggest decade: 1990s; 47.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 38.9%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 72; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1990s — 47.2% of all recorded uses (34).

Is Saurabh 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: —; 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 1998 (10)
Years since peak: 27; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 33.2% average annual change
Best rank ever: #6,113; 1980

Spellings of Saurabh

Saurabh is not the most common spelling — Sarah is, with 97.9% against Saurabh's 2.1%.

Sarah97.9%3,340
Saurabh2.1%72

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.

Saurabh by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #6,113; 1980
Peak year: 1998; 10 that year
First recorded: 1977
Last recorded: 2021
All-time count: 72
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Saurabh

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

Saulius Rushabh Saunders Saurav Saurish Saundra Saugat Sauyer Saulo Saurya Rishabh Sauvage Saumil Saud Amitabh Sauel Saumya Saun Prabh Saul

Sibling names for Saurabh

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Cydney Kalie Reilly Reanna Isela Taya Allyssa Katerina

For a brother

Demarco Marquez Ronaldo Tariq Jaren Marshal Jovan Maximillian

Explore around Saurabh

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