Given name

Anubhav

“experience, feeling”

Anubhav is a masculine given name from Sanskrit, meaning “experience, feeling.”

Meaning & origin

What it means

Anubhav means “experience, feeling.”

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Where it comes from

Anubhav comes from Sanskrit.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

From Sanskrit अनुभव (“experience, feeling”).

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

The story

Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1999. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.

From dated birth records

Anubhav through the years

Babies since 1880
10
10 boys · 0 girls
Most popular year
1999
5 babies
2025
0
Outside the ranked list
2021–25 vs 2016–20
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Too few births to compare
012320002025Highest share 19990.0
Anubhav in U.S. Social Security birth records, 1999–2025, per million boys born. Years with fewer than five births for a sex are not published and appear as zero. Use the arrow keys to step through years.

By the numbers

The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2003. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 409 as a first name in 2020.

From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.

Anubhav’s family of names

In Marathi usage, Anubhav is a Roman-alphabet rendering of अनुभव. In Hindi usage, Anubhav is a transliteration of अनुभव.

Walk Anubhav’s family in the name graph

Anubhavअनुभव

The ring: spellings.

Hover or tab through the constellation to see how each name is related. Bigger dots are names more people in the U.S. share.

Spellings & scripts 1

The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.

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