How Many People Are Named Apurva?
people named Apurva are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 2,691,219 people in the US has this name
Based on 130 babies named Apurva in Social Security records from 1973 to 2014, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
11 births
Trend
Last year given
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Means "unpreceded, new" in Sanskrit. This is a transcription of both the masculine form अपूर्व and the feminine form अपूर्वा.
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⚧ Gender Distribution
Of the babies given the name Apurva, 79.5% were girls and 20.5% were boys.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Apurva alive today is about 26 years old, and 84% are under 30. Half of them were between 20 and 28 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Apurva first appears in the records in 1973 and was given most often in 1997, to 11 babies. The last year it was given to at least 5 babies of one sex was 2014.
Babies given the name each year, 1973 to 2014
🏆 Rank History
Apurva has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #8,868, in 1996. Among boys, its best rank was #4,346, in 1975.
| Girls | Boys | |
|---|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | Not ranked | Not ranked |
| Best rank | #8,868 (1996) | #4,346 (1975) |
| Years in the top 100 | None | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #12,949 in the 2000s | #7,222 in the 1970s |
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