Given name

Kaustubh

Kaustubh is a masculine given name from Sanskrit.

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Kaustubh comes from Sanskrit.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

From Sanskrit कौस्तुभ.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

The story

Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2004. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.

From dated birth records

Kaustubh through the years

Babies since 1880
30
30 boys · 0 girls
Most popular year
2004
7 babies
2025
0
Outside the ranked list
2021–25 vs 2016–20
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Too few births to compare
012342025Highest share 20040.0
Kaustubh in U.S. Social Security birth records, 2004–2025, 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 6 in 2011. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 7 in 2004. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 442 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.

Kaustubhकौस्तुभ

The ring: spellings.

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Spellings & scripts 1

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

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>99% boys

Sibling ideas

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