Given name
Saurabh
“fragrance, aroma”
Saurabh is a masculine given name from Sanskrit, meaning “fragrance, aroma.”
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1977. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Saurabh through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 72
- 72 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1998
- 10 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2021. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 10 in 1998. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 2,726 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.
Saurabh’s family of names
In English usage, Saurabh has a conventional equivalent in the Hindi form सौरभ. In Hindi usage, Saurabh is a Roman-alphabet rendering of सौरभ.
The ring: spellings.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Saurabh
- Saurabh ShuklaIndian film and television actor, director, and screenwriterborn 1963
- Saurabh SumanAgri researcher in India - Nari Shakti award
- Saurabh Sharmabadminton playerborn 1997
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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