Dhruv
#1,097 for boys in 2025, 195 births
- Peak · boys
- 2019 · 210 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 4,474since 1987
Dhruv over time
Rank among boys' names. Dhruv has never cracked the top 900 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,097 | 195 |
| 2024 | #1,090 | 199 |
| 2023 | #1,111 | 190 |
| 2022 | #1,084 | 201 |
| 2021 | #1,135 | 179 |
| 2020 | #1,058 | 189 |
| 2019 | #997 | 210 |
| 2018 | #1,074 | 185 |
| 2017 | #1,129 | 169 |
| 2016 | #1,194 | 159 |
| 2015 | #1,182 | 157 |
| 2014 | #1,137 | 167 |
| 2013 | #1,216 | 147 |
| 2012 | #1,130 | 162 |
| 2011 | #1,118 | 163 |
| 2010 | #1,068 | 180 |
| 2009 | #1,138 | 161 |
| 2008 | #1,105 | 166 |
| 2007 | #1,031 | 182 |
| 2006 | #1,214 | 138 |
| 2005 | #1,170 | 136 |
| 2004 | #1,029 | 159 |
| 2003 | #1,098 | 140 |
| 2002 | #1,288 | 105 |
| 2001 | #1,564 | 77 |
| 2000 | #1,641 | 71 |
| 1999 | #1,642 | 65 |
| 1998 | #2,068 | 45 |
| 1997 | #2,546 | 31 |
| 1996 | #2,838 | 26 |
| 1995 | #2,685 | 27 |
| 1994 | #3,911 | 16 |
| 1993 | #4,227 | 14 |
| 1992 | #4,872 | 11 |
| 1991 | #4,005 | 14 |
| 1990 | #3,779 | 15 |
| 1989 | #5,615 | 8 |
| 1988 | #4,450 | 10 |
| 1987 | #6,951 | 5 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Dhruv! It came in at #6,951, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1987, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Dhruv is popular in 2011
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New Jersey#284 · 1 in 1,570
- Illinois#596 · 1 in 4,235
- Massachusetts#610 · 1 in 5,000
- Virginia#827 · 1 in 6,883
- New York#845 · 1 in 6,962
Best ever in a state: #248 in New Jersey, 2003.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| New Jersey | #284 | 27 | 1 in 1,570 |
| Illinois | #596 | 16 | 1 in 4,235 |
| Massachusetts | #610 | 6 | 1 in 5,000 |
| Virginia | #827 | 6 | 1 in 6,883 |
| New York | #845 | 15 | 1 in 6,962 |
| California | #895 | 24 | 1 in 9,598 |
| North Carolina | #1,097 | 5 | 1 in 10,179 |
| Texas | #1,166 | 14 | 1 in 12,503 |
| Georgia | #1,202 | 5 | 1 in 10,998 |
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See more about Dhruv
- 7 spots since 2024 (#1,090 → #1,097)
- 39 spots since 2020 (#1,058 → #1,097)
- 85 spots since 2015 (#1,182 → #1,097)
- Biggest jump: 77 spots in 2019 (#1,074 → #997)
- Biggest drop: 61 spots in 2020 (#997 → #1,058)
- Debuted 1987
- Peaked 2019 at #997 (210 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 1 yr · 2019
- Highest: 1 in 8,544 boys born in 2019 were named Dhruv (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 8,759 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 38.0% of all boys named Dhruv (1,699) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 23 | #4,450 (1988) | #5,672 |
| 1990s | 264 | #1,642 (1999) | #3,257 |
| 2000s | 1,335 | #1,029 (2004) | #1,228 |
| 2010s | 1,699 | #997 (2019) | #1,125 |
| 2020s | 1,153 | #1,058 (2020) | #1,096 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Dhruv in 2011
Top boys' names in 2011
More about 2011
boys
1,899,252 boys got a published name in 2011; 1 in 11,652 of them was named Dhruv, which outranked 92.2% of the 14,360 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,108Thatcher166
- #1,116Avi165
- #1,117Lucien164
- #1,118Dhruv163
- #1,118Bishop163
- #1,118Estevan163
- #1,118Glenn163
- #1,125Demarion162
- #1,126Forrest161
- #1,126Johnpaul161
Tied with 6 names at #1,118; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.