girls:
102 births since 1996
#5614 (2nd percentile)
boys:
28 births since 1973
#4558 (1st percentile)
overall:
130 births since 1973
#7609 (2nd percentile)
The name Apurva is the #7,609 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 130 recorded births since 1973. This represents the 1.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 1.7% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,614 (1.8% percentile) for all time with 102 births since 1996. For boys, it ranks #4,558 (0.5% percentile) for all time with 28 births since 1973.
Apurva first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1973 (1973 for boys and 1996 for girls). Birth data for Apurva is available in 18 out of the 42 years between 1973 and 2014 (14 years for girls and 5 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Apurva has been given predominantly to girls, with 78.5% of all recorded births being female. In 2014, 100.0% of babies named Apurva were girls. Interestingly, until around 1996, the name was more popular for boys (100.0% boys from 1973 to 1995), but since then it has been more commonly used for girls (94.4% girls from 1996 to 2014).
For girls, Apurva reached its peak popularity in 2001, achieving the 0.6% percentile (ranked #893) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 2001, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.6% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2014.
For boys, Apurva reached its peak popularity in 1975, achieving the 0.3% percentile (ranked #658) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1975, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1997.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Apurva".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Apurva. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 41.2% confident that Apurva is pronounced as uh-POOR-vuh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is uh-PER-vuh, at 29.4% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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