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Shubh

#4,837 in 2025Boys' name

Splendid, bright, beautiful, handsome, through शुभ

Shubh has been given to 418 babies in the U.S. since 2000. In 2025 it ranked #4,837 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2008, with 38 recorded.

Babies named Shubh, 2025

1 in 158,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Shubh: meaning, origin, and history

Splendid, bright, beautiful, handsome, through शुभ

Sanskrit

What Shubh means

Shubh belongs to the name family reached through Shubh → शुभ. Its meaning is “splendid, bright, beautiful, handsome”.

Origin, language, and formation

Shubh is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

Shubh comes through Sanskrit शुभ.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include शुभ.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 418 boys were recorded with the name Shubh between 2000 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 38 in 2008; its best national rank was #3,094 in 2008.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #7,419 in 2020 to #4,837 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #7,944 in 2015 to #4,837 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 Shubh?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 158,000
21 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 81,300
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#4,837
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
109,425 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Shubh 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 109,425 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shubh. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Shubhs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Shubh was born before 2013 — so the typical Shubh is around 12 today.

Median birth year
2013
About 12 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
36.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
97.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
418
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Choose a decade

2000s — 36.8% of all recorded uses (154).

Is Shubh 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
−1,066
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+2,582
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+3,107
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.10×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
55.3%
Peak was 2008 (38)
Years since peak
17
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
39.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,094
2008

Spellings of Shubh

Shubh is not the most common spelling — Hugh is, with 98.4% against Shubh's 0.49%.

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 Shubh is used

Across 1910–2025, Shubh was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 699,350 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Illinois1 in —
  3. 3New Jersey1 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. Shubh has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Shubh around the world

Where Shubh 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
    2000–2025
    #2,664
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2004–2024
    #1,536
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2012–2013
    #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.

Shubh by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#4,837
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 2,582
Best rank ever
#3,094
2008
Peak year
2008
38 that year
First recorded
2000
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
418
Count in 2025
21

Names similar to Shubh

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

ShuaibShubhamShulemShuaybShuanShunShuaShuShuraimShuronShunnShukuruShuntaShuheiShubanShufordShunsukeShukriShujiShueShulimShuichiShurmanShurley

Sibling names for Shubh

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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