Surbhi

Girls' name

Fragrance, aroma

Surbhi has been given to 27 babies in the U.S. since 1998. 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 6 recorded.

Babies named Surbhi, 2018

1 in 703,000

Surbhi over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Surbhi: meaning, origin, and history

Fragrance, aroma

Sanskrit

What Surbhi means

Surbhi means “fragrance, aroma”, associated with surabhi.

Origin, language, and formation

Surbhi is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 27 girls were recorded with the name Surbhi between 1998 and 2018. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1998; its best national rank was #13,899 in 1998.

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 Surbhi?

Surbhi had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2018, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2018: 1 in 703,000; 5 of 3,516,853 births
Among girls only: 1 in 340,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2018: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 487,541 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Surbhi sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2018 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 487,541 children born in 2018 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Surbhi. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Surbhis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Surbhi was born before 2006 — so the typical Surbhi is around 19 today.

Median birth year: 2006; About 19 years old
Biggest decade: 2000s; 40.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 27; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2000s — 40.7% of all recorded uses (11).

Is Surbhi 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 (6)
Years since peak: 27; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Not enough data; Too few years
Best rank ever: #13,899; 1998

Spellings of Surbhi

Surbhi is not the most common spelling — Sarahi is, with 69.9% against Surbhi's 0.23%.

Sarahi69.9%8,204
Suri29.9%3,512
Surbhi0.23%27

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.

Surbhi by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #13,899; 1998
Peak year: 1998; 6 that year
First recorded: 1998
Last recorded: 2018
All-time count: 27
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Surbhi

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

Surabhi Sureya Surayah Surrey Surayya Surely Suriana Surveen Surena Suria Suriah Surina Suriyah Sureena Surraya Surenity Suraiya Surah Surya Surai Suraya Surayyah Shubhi Suriya

Sibling names for Surbhi

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

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