Dhruv

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Dhruv: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Dhruv: Recorded every year since 1996, its highest recorded position is #262, reached in 2025.

2registrars recorded it
35times a registrar ranked it
30years from first to last
#262highest recorded position
12groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among boys in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#1235
1997	#788
1998	#1055
1999	#869
2000	#848
2001	#707
2002	#781
2003	#680
2004	#523
2005	#628
2006	#494
2007	#538
2008	#527
2009	#627
2010	#543
2011	#470
2012	#569
2013	#603
2014	#643
2015	#740
2016	#928
2017	#743
2018	#786
2019	#813
2020	#781
2021	#871
2022	#731
2023	#738
2024	#721

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2024: #582 among boys in Republic of Ireland, #721 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1996–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #1235 among boys in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Highest recorded2012–2025
Highest recorded position: #262 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 2025 (recorded 2012–2025).
Republic of Ireland · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #262 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Boys

Dhruv appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 1,217 births with the name.

Dhruv across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Dhruv's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#1235 (1996)	#470 (2011)	#721 (2024)	29 of 29	1,217 (1996–2024)	79 (2011)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#718 (2012)	#262 (2025)	#262 (2025)	6 of 14	37 (2012–2025)	17 (2025)

Dhruv by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Dhruv in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	61	4 of 10	15
2000s	426	10 of 10	43
2010sbusiest	516	10 of 10	52
2020s	214	5 of 10	43

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 52 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Dhruv appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #262 in Republic of Ireland in 2025.

Dhruv's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	male	#721	49	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#738	45	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#731	45	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#871	35	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#781	40	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#813	38	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#786	41	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#743	46	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#928	32	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#740	44	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#643	53	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#603	57	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#569	63	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#470	79	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#543	63	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#627	51	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#527	64	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#538	58	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#494	61	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#628	42	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#523	50	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#680	32	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#781	24	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#707	25	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#848	19	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#869	18	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#1055	13	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#788	20	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#1235	10	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	male	#262	17	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	male	#582	5	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	male	#552	5	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	male	#637	4	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	male	#764	3	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	male	#718	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1996 and 2025, ranked in 30 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #262, first reached in 2025.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 79 births, registered in England and Wales in 2011.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2012, and 16 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Dhriti · #625, 21y
Dhruti · #3197, 11y
Dhruva · #2755, 13y
Dhruvi · #1864, 25y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Clarke · #262, 29y
Corinna · #262, 34y
Aminah · #263, 30y
Feidhlim · #263, 31y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Blossom · #262, 30y
Clarke · #262, 29y
Kayce · #262, 18y
Aminah · #263, 30y

Dhruv was ranked #262 in Republic of Ireland · Boys in 2025. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Dhruv and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Dhruv without appearing here.

Dhruv moved ahead of

Shannon Compare
In 1996 they stood at #1235 and #1168 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1997 that had become #788 and #1761.
Connor Compare
In 2024 they stood at #582 and #302 in Republic of Ireland · Boys; by 2025 that had become #262 and #829.
Harris Compare
In 2024 they stood at #582 and #582 in Republic of Ireland · Boys; by 2025 that had become #262 and #829.
Johannes Compare
In 1996 they stood at #1235 and #1168 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1997 that had become #788 and #1345.

Moved ahead of Dhruv

Hunter Compare
In 2011 they stood at #470 and #473 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2012 that had become #569 and #238.
Arlo Compare
In 2008 they stood at #527 and #567 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2009 that had become #627 and #311.
Theodor Compare
In 2015 they stood at #740 and #873 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2016 that had become #928 and #774.
Ollie Compare
In 1997 they stood at #788 and #2022 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1998 that had become #1055 and #924.

Moved the opposite way to Dhruv

Aaron Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Dhruv went from #1235 to #721 while Aaron went from #33 to #154.
Adam Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Dhruv went from #1235 to #721 while Adam went from #16 to #35.
Alan Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Dhruv went from #1235 to #721 while Alan went from #163 to #592.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Dhruv went from #1235 to #721 while Alex went from #43 to #171.

Moved the same way as Dhruv

Albie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Dhruv went from #1235 to #721 and Albie from #853 to #19.
Alfie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Dhruv went from #1235 to #721 and Alfie from #119 to #16.
Alfred Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Dhruv went from #1235 to #721 and Alfred from #218 to #81.
Archie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Dhruv went from #1235 to #721 and Archie from #192 to #10.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #262 in Republic of Ireland in 2025. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Dhruv

Dhruv at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Dhruv across 2 official records

Dhruv by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Dhruv appears in

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Dhruv across 2 official records

Dhruv by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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