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Yuvaan

Masculine · “young”

2009high 2019
#2145 in the U.S.given to only a few children a year
rare67 boys in 2025

Yuvaan is young in Sanskrit — yuvan — and it is the same word as the Latin juvenis, which gives juvenile and junior.

How old is the name Yuvaan?

Yuvaan first appears in US birth records in 2009 — 16 years ago. The typical Yuvaan is a kid of about 6 — this name's wave is very recent. About 1,100 people named Yuvaan are estimated to be alive in the US today.

When was the name Yuvaan most popular?

Yuvaan peaked in 2019, reaching #1322 nationally. Today it ranks #2145, 823 places below that high. See the whole 2019 chart.

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Where it comes from

The story of Yuvaan

Yuvan and juvenis are the same word at a distance of five thousand years, and the family also produces 'young', 'junior' and 'rejuvenate'. Yuvaan is a modern Indian given name built on the Sanskrit and appears in American records in current use.

Meaning

young, youthful

From the Sanskrit yuvan, 'young man' or 'youth'. The root is shared across Indo-European: the Latin juvenis, English young, Gothic juggs. The doubled a marks a long vowel in transliteration. The Sanskrit is ordinary and the etymology documented.

How the name formed

  1. yuvan
  2. Yuvaan

Related forms: युवन् · युवान · Yuvan

Pronouncing Yuvaan

yoo-VAHN

Two syllables, stress on the second. The doubled a marks a long vowel.

Nicknames for Yuvaan

Moderate

YuviThe affectionate stretch, warm and widely used in India
YuvA clipping, used inside families rather than generally
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What the data says

The long climb, and where it stands now

BOYS NAMED · 2009–20251386901386720092025

US babies named Yuvaan per year from 2009 to 2025
AVERAGE RANK BY DECADE#1#10#100#1000#13222000s2020s

The same years in position rather than babies

First recorded
2009
Most boys named
2019138 — the highest on record
Peak rank
#1322reached in 2019
Change vs 2024
−26.4%67 in 2025, from 91
Yuvaan sits in the rare tail. Its best year on record was 2019, with 138 boys. Today it is given to few enough children that it does not enter the ranked charts at all.

Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.

Yuvaan in other languages

The same name elsewhere

  • युवन् in Sanskrit — related form
  • युवान in Hindi — transliteration
  • Yuvan in English — spelling variant

Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas, New Jersey.

Yuvaans among us

1,100

people named Yuvaan are estimated to be alive in the US today

About 1 boy in 25,494 born in 2025 was named Yuvaan

Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method

Spellings of Yuvaan

#2145
Yuvaan on the 2025 chart
#815
counting every spelling

The SSA counts spellings, not names. Yuvaan went to 67 boys in 2025, but Yuvan is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 113, which makes it the 815th most-given boys’ name of the year — 1,330 places above the chart.

About 1 boy in 15,116 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 25,494 for Yuvaan itself.

Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method

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Is it right for you

The Rahim test

Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Yuvaan's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Rahim climbed just as high around 1975, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Rahim's path sketches the road Yuvaan is walking now.

40%chance Yuvaan will feel “very 2020s” by 2040
Yuvaan, aligned on its peakRahim· peak 1975not yet written
#1#10#100#1000peak-10 yrs+50 yrsRahim · #2725Yuvaan today
Yuvaan today is about where Rahim stood in 1981 — 6 years past a #1322-sized peak. By 1996, Rahim had settled around #2301.
Ages quietlysteadyDates fast

Yuvaan sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.

A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored

Where Yuvaan is headed

20092030

US babies named Yuvaan per year, 2009 to 2025, with a projection to 2030

Yuvaan should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind. Its history is short or jumpy, though, so read this as a sketch rather than a promise.

Steady-6% by 2030projected around #2,356 in 2030

Low confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.

A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.

Yuvaan beside its neighbors

The names ranked closest to Yuvaan in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.

Yuvaanthis name67#2145Shayan67#2145Wendell67#2145Hosea67#2145Banner67#2145

US boys given each name in 2025.

The trade-off

Practical strengths
  • That yuvan and juvenile are the same word is a first-rate etymology.
  • The young meaning is transparent and undisputed.
  • Yuvi is a warm and widely used Indian short form.
What to consider
  • Yuvan and Yuvaan are both in circulation.
  • The doubled a will be misread by English speakers.
  • It reads as specifically Indian.

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Frequently asked

How many Yuvaans are there in the world?
No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,100 people named Yuvaan are estimated to be alive in the US today.
How do you spell Yuvaan?
Yuvaan is the most-used spelling in US records — 67 of the 113 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Yuvan.
How popular is the name Yuvaan in 2025?
Yuvaan ranks #2145 among US boy names in 2025, with 67 babies given the name.
How rare is the name Yuvaan?
About 1 in every 25,494 US boys born in 2025 was named Yuvaan — 67 in all.
Will my child share the name Yuvaan with classmates?
Yuvaan will almost certainly be the only one in school.

Ranked beside Yuvaan

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Shayan#2145 · Wendell#2145 · Hosea#2145 · Banner#2145 · Musab#2145 · Alastair#2145 · Jahsir#2145 · Adair#2145

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