Ra — #7333 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Ra

The Social Security Administration has registered 216 babies named Ra between 1972 and 2024, spanning 53 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Ra currently holds the #7333 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2023, when 29 babies received it in a single year. Ra is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 20 additional births since 1969.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Ra performed strongest in the 2020s, accumulating 85 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Ra shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 11 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Ra in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Ra in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 216 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.