Given name
Nirav
“one who is quiet”
Nirav is used as a given name. One Indian interpretation is “one who is quiet.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Indian interpretation is “one who is quiet.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Indian.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1972. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Nirav through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 546
- 546 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1984
- 21 babies
- 2025
- 13
- #6,705 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −37%
- Cooling
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 13 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 6,705 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 21 in 1984. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,476 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.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
People named Nirav
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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