Varun

#5,861 for boys in 2025, 15 births

Peak · boys
2004 · 145 births
Debut · boys
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
2,598
since 1981

Varun over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Varun has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020202004peak #1,090, 2004boys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yearboys
rankbirths
2025#5,86115
2024#5,24118
2023#4,88620
2022#4,44223
2021#3,58231
2020#3,81127
2019#2,99340
2018#2,70845
2017#2,63747
2016#2,72644
2015#2,38654
2014#2,49250
2013#2,13962
2012#2,10464
2011#1,92772
2010#1,72588
2009#1,68893
2008#1,571101
2007#1,62195
2006#1,379116
2005#1,149140
2004#1,090145
2003#1,210121
2002#1,154123
2001#1,31699
2000#1,196113
1999#1,194107
1998#1,27195
1997#1,38679
1996#1,50067
1995#1,60357
1994#1,92743
1993#1,87544
1992#2,00239
1991#2,09535
1990#2,48827
1989#2,35928
1988#2,19728
1987#2,40023
1986#2,60120
1985#2,71018
1984#3,10714
1983#3,41112
1982#3,69211
1981#6,2625
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First appearance
1981

The first year at least five boys were named Varun! It came in at #6,262, and was given to 5 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1981, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

See more about Varun
Momentum · boys
Falling
  • 620 spots since 2024 (#5,241#5,861)
  • 2,050 spots since 2020 (#3,811#5,861)
  • 3,475 spots since 2015 (#2,386#5,861)
Rise & fade · boys
23 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1981
  • Peaked 2004 at #1,090 (145 births)
  • Births halved by 2011, 7 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 13,690
  • Highest: 1 in 13,690 boys born in 2004 were named Varun (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 113,872 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 2000s
  • 44.1% of all boys named Varun (1,146) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1980s159#2,197 (1988)#3,193
1990s593#1,194 (1999)#1,734
2000s1,146#1,090 (2004)#1,337
2010s566#1,725 (2010)#2,384
2020s134#3,582 (2021)#4,637

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.

Varun in 2004

boys
#1,090
145 births · 1 in 13,690 boys

Top boys' names in 2004

  1. #1Jacob27,911
  2. #2Michael25,470
  3. #3Joshua24,214
  4. #4Matthew22,882
  5. #5Ethan22,210
  6. #6Andrew21,717
  7. #7Daniel21,018
  8. #8William20,237
  9. #9Joseph20,147
  10. #10Christopher19,636
  11. #1,090Varun145
More about 2004

boys

1,984,979 boys got a published name in 2004; 1 in 13,690 of them was named Varun, which outranked 91.8% of the 13,228 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Varun
  1. #1,086Mariano146
  2. #1,086Mustafa146
  3. #1,086Raiden146
  4. #1,090Varun145
  5. #1,090Aubrey145
  6. #1,090Kael145
  7. #1,090Kyron145
  8. #1,095Camryn144
  9. #1,095Dontae144
  10. #1,095Finnegan144

Tied with 4 names at #1,090; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2003
Risers
  1. 1,308Koda#2,238#930
  2. 1,190Tayshaun#2,153#963
  3. 1,006Kanye#1,492#486
  4. 910Kyan#1,497#587
  5. 814Jaidyn#1,630#816
Fallers
  1. 455Jahiem#873#1,328
  2. 325Ervin#942#1,267
  3. 323Jahir#809#1,132
  4. 282Jaheim#457#739
  5. 270Sabastian#946#1,216

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 2004