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Dhruvi

Gender
Girl
Say it
DHROO-vee
Origin
Sanskrit
US rank, 2025
#14,937 for girls

Dhruvi is a girls' name of Sanskrit origin, meaning “pole star, steadfast”. In 2025 it ranked 14,937th for girls in the US (5 babies).

What does Dhruvi mean?

Sanskrit: feminine of Dhruv

“pole star, steadfast”

The feminine of Dhruv, after Dhruva, the devoted prince of Hindu legend who became the pole star.

Is Dhruvi a girl's or a boy's name?

Dhruvi is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 5 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Dhruvi in the UK?

No girls in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2013, with 15 girls.

Half of all the girls named Dhruvi in the UK since 1996 were born between 2008 and 2017, the years shaded on the chart below.

1996Busiest: 15 in 20132024
Dhruvi in the UK, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20248#3,076
20233#5,929
20225#4,168
20214#4,864
20205#4,110
20198#3,018
20180–
20179#2,864
20165#4,290
20157#3,433
20147#3,321
201315#1,964
201212#2,319
201113#2,152
20106#3,715
200910#2,478
200810#2,454
20075#3,858
20066#3,280
20057#2,806
20046#2,957
20033#4,560
20024#3,556
20010–
20003#4,074
19993#4,041
19980–
19970–
19963#3,935

How popular is Dhruvi in the US?

Rank in 2025
#14,937among girls
Babies in 2025
5about 1 in 320,000 girls
Five-year trend
Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 5 girls in the US were named Dhruvi, making it the 14,937th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 6,625th. Its busiest year was 2011, with 19 girls. It first appears in the records in 2002.

2025 had the fewest girls named Dhruvi since it first appeared, in 2002.

Half of all the girls named Dhruvi in the US since 1880 were born between 2008 and 2018, the years shaded on the chart below.

2002Busiest: 19 in 20112025
Dhruvi in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20255#14,937
202410#9,551
202315#7,242
20227#12,237
202110#9,557
202017#6,625
201910#9,730
201811#9,146
201712#8,772
201618#6,660
20159#10,861
201414#8,050
201315#7,744
201216#7,452
201119#6,561
201013#8,697
200917#7,338
200813#8,961
200716#7,729
200611#9,897
200510#10,123
200410#9,887
20038#11,319
200210#9,476

Names like Dhruvi

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

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Sources

Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Dhruvi: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/dhruvi, updated 20 October 2026.