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Vikranth

Boy · vik-RANTH · Sanskrit

Vikranth is a boys' name of Sanskrit origin, meaning “valiant, courageous”. In 2025 it ranked 7,190th for boys in the US (11 babies).

What does Vikranth mean?

Sanskrit: South Indian spelling of Vikrant, from Sanskrit vikranta

“valiant, courageous”

The same word names India's aircraft carriers, INS Vikrant.

Say it
vik-RANTH

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

Vikranth is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 11 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.

How popular is Vikranth in the US?

Rank in 2025
#7,190among boys
Babies in 2025
11about 1 in 160,000 boys
Five-year trend
Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 boys

In 2025, 11 boys in the US were named Vikranth, making it the 7,190th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 6,616th. Its busiest year was 2020, with 12 boys. It first appears in the records in 2004.

Half of all the boys named Vikranth in the US since 1880 were born between 2013 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.

2004Busiest: 12 in 20202025
Vikranth in the US, year by year
YearBoysRank
202511#7,190
20249#8,307
202312#6,892
20228#8,983
20210–
202012#6,616
20190–
20180–
20178#8,835
20166#10,739
20155#12,080
20140–
20135#12,129
20128#8,858
20115#12,280
20100–
20096#10,989
20080–
20070–
20060–
20050–
20046#9,941

Names like Vikranth

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

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