Given name
Vaibhav
“one who is wealthy”
Vaibhav is used as a given name. One Indian interpretation is “one who is wealthy.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Indian interpretation is “one who is wealthy.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Indian.
How it developed
From Sanskrit वैभव (“splendor, magnificence”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1991. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Vaibhav through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 593
- 593 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2011
- 44 babies
- 2025
- 16
- #5,830 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −26%
- Easing
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 16 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 5,830 among boys’ names. Average annual use for boys was 26.0% lower in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for boys was 44 in 2011. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,938 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.
Vaibhav’s family of names
Vaibhav has a related form in Vabhav. Vaibhav has a related form in Vaybhav. In English usage, Vaibhav has a conventional equivalent in the Hindi form वैभव.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Vaibhav
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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