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Utkarsh

Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded; Sanskrit origin

Utkarsh has been given to 43 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 2002, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Utkarsh, 2022

1 in 564,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Utkarsh: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded; Sanskrit origin

Sanskrit

What Utkarsh means

Utkarsh is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Utkarsh is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 43 boys were recorded with the name Utkarsh between 1998 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 6 in 2002; its best national rank was #10,593 in 2002.

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 Utkarsh?

Utkarsh had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2022
1 in 564,000
6 of 3,385,755 births
Among boys only
1 in 291,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2022
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
391,139 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Utkarsh 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 2022 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 391,139 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Utkarsh. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Utkarshs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Utkarsh was born before 2011 — so the typical Utkarsh is around 14 today.

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
37.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
43
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 37.2% of all recorded uses (16).

Is Utkarsh 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2002 (6)
Years since peak
23
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#10,593
2002

Utkarsh around the world

Where Utkarsh 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
    2007–2007
    #4,333
    in 2007
  • South Australia
    2010–2010
    #754
    in 2010

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.

Utkarsh 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
#10,593
2002
Peak year
2002
6 that year
First recorded
1998
Last recorded
2022
All-time count
43
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Utkarsh

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

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Sibling names for Utkarsh

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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