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Varun

#6,108 in 2025Boys' name

Varuna

Varun has been given to 2,598 babies in the U.S. since 1981. In 2025 it ranked #6,108 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2004, with 145 recorded.

Babies named Varun, 2025

1 in 221,000

Varun over time, 1880–2025

Boys
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Varun: meaning, origin, and history

Varuna

Sanskrit

What Varun means

Varun means “Varuna”, associated with váruṇa.

Origin, language, and formation

Varun is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

Varun comes through Sanskrit वरुण.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,598 boys were recorded with the name Varun between 1981 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 145 in 2004; its best national rank was #1,093 in 2004.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,907 in 2020 to #6,108 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,408 in 2015 to #6,108 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 Varun?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 221,000
15 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 114,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#6,108
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
153,194 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Varun 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 153,194 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Varun. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Varuns were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Varun was born before 2004 — so the typical Varun is around 21 today.

Median birth year
2004
About 21 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
44.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
66.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,598
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 44.1% of all recorded uses (1,146).

Is Varun 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
−685
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−2,201
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−3,700
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.28×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
10.3%
Peak was 2004 (145)
Years since peak
21
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
13.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,093
2004

Spellings of Varun

Varun is not the most common spelling — Aaron is, with 75.4% against Varun's 0.32%.

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 Varun is used

Across 1910–2025, Varun was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 20,000 boys, against 1 in 76,506 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

05 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 20,000
  2. 2California1 in 33,333
  3. 3Illinois1 in 100,000
  4. 4Massachusetts1 in 100,000
  5. 5Maryland1 in 100,000
  6. 6Michigan1 in 100,000
  7. 7New York1 in 100,000
  8. 8Texas1 in 100,000

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

Varun around the world

Where Varun 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
    1996–2025
    #3,684
    in 2025
  • France
    2005–2025
    #5,915
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #2,550
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2010–2013
    #754
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Varun

People whose public names include Varun, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Varun by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#6,108
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 2,201
Best rank ever
#1,093
2004
Peak year
2004
145 that year
First recorded
1981
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,598
Count in 2025
15

Names similar to Varun

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

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Names with a curve like Varun

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Varun, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Varun

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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