Aarav
Meaning
from Sanskrit arava, 'crying, howling, noise'
The story
Aarav comes from the Sanskrit arava, meaning "crying, howling, noise", says Behind the Name, and the entry simply stops there: no legend attached, no famous bearer listed, just the sound the word itself describes. The published American record is entirely new: the first bucket is the 2000s, with about 940 boys, then about 4,830 in the 2010s, and about 2,450 so far in this one. There is no earlier line under this spelling anywhere in the ledger's hundred and thirty years of published record. A Sanskrit word for the noise a crowd or a river makes, and a published record that went from completely absent to firmly established inside just twenty years, its entire American history written since the century turned.
Popularity, 1890–2024
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Aarav peaked in the 2010s and the 2020s in nearly equal measure.
When you meet Aarav
Most people given the name Aarav in the United States are children or teenagers today. The name belongs to this generation.
Estimated from US Social Security birth registrations and typical lifespans; a rough guide, not a rule.
The Aarav deep dive
Whether you’re naming a baby or exploring your own name’s history, this is a personal letter, not a list: where Aarav truly comes from, how it traveled, and what a century of records reveals. If you have grown a tree on nametree, it also considers how Aarav fits with your family’s names and surname.
Where Aarav travels
Nepali · on the US SSA list since the mid-2010s, at home for Nepali-American families on both sides of the hyphen
Keep exploring
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