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Saurav

Boys' name

Fragrance, aroma

Saurav has been given to 203 babies in the U.S. since 1996. 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 2004, with 18 recorded.

Babies named Saurav, 2019

1 in 579,000

Saurav over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Saurav: meaning, origin, and history

Fragrance, aroma

Sanskrit

What Saurav means

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

Origin, language, and formation

Saurav is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 203 boys were recorded with the name Saurav between 1996 and 2019. Its highest annual count was 18 in 2004; its best national rank was #4,754 in 2004.

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 Saurav?

Saurav had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2019, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2019
1 in 579,000
6 of 3,472,229 births
Among boys only
1 in 299,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2019
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
401,129 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Saurav 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 2019 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 401,129 children born in 2019 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Saurav. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sauravs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Saurav was born before 2007 — so the typical Saurav is around 18 today.

Median birth year
2007
About 18 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
50.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
203
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 50.2% of all recorded uses (102).

Is Saurav 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
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2004 (18)
Years since peak
21
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,754
2004

Spellings of Saurav

Saurav is not the most common spelling — Aarav is, with 44.7% against Saurav's 1.1%.

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 Saurav is used

Across 1910–2025, Saurav was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 3,486,540 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 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. Saurav has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Saurav around the world

Where Saurav 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
    1996–2014
    #4,632
    in 2014
  • South Australia
    1999–1999
    #539
    in 1999

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

Saurav 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
#4,754
2004
Peak year
2004
18 that year
First recorded
1996
Last recorded
2019
All-time count
203
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Saurav

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

SauloKairavNeeravSaudGauravSaundersShaaravNiravSaurabhSaugatSauyerSharavSauryaSaumilAravPuravSauliusSauelKiravSaurishSaundraSaumyaMiravAarav

Sibling names for Saurav

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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