boys:
2.6k births since 1981
#2498 (46th percentile)
overall:
2.6k births since 1981
#5283 (32nd percentile)
The name Varun is the #5,283 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,564 recorded births since 1981. This represents the 31.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 31.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,498 (45.5% percentile) for all time with 2,564 births since 1981.
Varun first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1981 (first recorded for boys in 1981).
For boys, Varun reached its peak popularity in 2004, achieving the 16.5% percentile (ranked #707) with 69 births per million. The name was most common in 2004, with 69 births per million (ranked 16.5% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2006, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Varun ranks #896 for boys (1.6% percentile) with 11 births per million, which is 15.9% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Varun".
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Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Varun. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 51.4% confident that Varun is pronounced as VAH-ruhn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is vuh-RUEN, at 24.3% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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