Dhruva

maleStatistical record

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

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

Dhruva: Recorded since 2006, its highest recorded position is #2,755, and it stood at #3,254 in 2024.

1registrar recorded it
14times a registrar ranked it
19years from first to last
#2755highest recorded position
1grouping it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 2007–2023

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2007	#5201
2023	#5687

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

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in 12 of the 19 years from 2006 to 2024.

Official data for England and Wales, 2006–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded2006
First recorded at #4052 among boys in England and Wales in 2006 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Highest recorded2006–2024
Highest recorded position: #2755 among boys in England and Wales, in 2022 (recorded 2006–2024).
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #3254 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Boys

Dhruva appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 12 years beginning in 2006, and has registered 55 births with the name.

Dhruva 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.

Dhruva'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	#4052 (2006)	#2755 (2022)	#3254 (2024)	12 of 19	55 (2006–2024)	7 (2022)
England and Wales · Girls	#5201 (2007)	#5201 (2007)	#5687 (2023)	2 of 17	6 (2007–2023)	3 (2007)

Dhruva 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 Dhruva in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
2000s	7	2 of 10	4
2010s	19	5 of 10	4
2020sbusiest	29	5 of 10	6

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 6 births a year.

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

Dhruva appears in

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

Longest recorded names

Popularity data

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 2006 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #2755 in England and Wales in 2022.

Dhruva'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	#3254	6	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#5687	3	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#2813	7	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#2755	7	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#3990	4	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#3334	5	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#3937	4	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#3959	4	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#3908	4	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#4632	3	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#3830	4	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#3687	4	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#5201	3	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#4052	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 1 registrar between 2006 and 2024, ranked in 13 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #2,755, first reached in 2022.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 7 births, registered in England and Wales in 2022.

Its record falls into 4 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 2 years.

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.

3decades with a ranked yearRecorded in 3 decades →
7 yearslongest unbroken run of ranked years
4separate stretches the record falls into4 separate stretches →
2 yearslongest absence inside the recorded period2 to 3 years missing →
#3,254position in 2024, its most recent recorded year
7births registered in its largest year, 2022Under 25 births →

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.

Dhruti · #3197, 11y
Dhruv · #262, 30y
Dhruvi · #1864, 25y
Dhwani · #3015, 13y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 1 registrar, 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.

Cuthbert · #2755, 12y
Drin · #2755, 14y
Gursehaj · #2755, 8y
Iker · #2755, 15y

Also first recorded in the 2000s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 2000 and 2009.

Iker · #2755, 15y
Amare · #2754, 18y
Billy-Jay · #2754, 13y
Fen · #2754, 9y

Dhruva 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 Dhruva without appearing here.

Dhruva moved ahead of

Glenn Compare
In 2022 they stood at #3990 and #2730 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2023 that had become #2813 and #4991.
Ole Compare
In 2021 they stood at #3990 and #3017 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2022 that had become #2755 and #4789.
Graham Compare
In 2023 they stood at #2813 and #1533 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #3254 and #5119.
Jade Compare
In 2023 they stood at #2813 and #2813 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #3254 and #5119.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
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.

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 2006 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #2755 in England and Wales in 2022. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Dhruva

Dhruva at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Dhruva across 2 official records

Dhruva by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Dhruva appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 2000s

Dhruva and the names beside it

Dhruva moved ahead of

Dhruva at a glance

Dhruva across 2 official records

Dhruva by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Dhruva appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 2000s

Dhruva and the names beside it

Dhruva moved ahead of