Rachana — girls' name
272 babies named Rachana in U.S. Social Security records since 1977, with the highest year being 2002. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
36% of everyone ever named Rachana was born in this single decade.
16 babies were named Rachana in 2002 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Rachana
The Social Security Administration has registered 272 babies named Rachana between 1977 and 2018, spanning 42 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Rachana currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2018. The name reached its historical peak in 2002, when 16 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Rachana performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 99 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Rachana shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 7 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Rachana in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Rachana 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 272 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.
Rachana at a glance
Last recorded 2018Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Rachana popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2018–1977
- Peak year (2002)
- 16
- Annual births at peak — across 42 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2018.
272 total births across 42 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2002 with 16 births in a single year.
Rachana by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2000s
- 99 births that decade — 36% of Rachana's all-time total
Rachana decade highlights
- Peak decade 99 births
- Runner-up 59 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2000s was Rachana's strongest decade
99 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 36% of all-time use.
Rachana by state
Where Rachana concentrates geographically — total births since 1977
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 7 | 2.6% |
7 of 272 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- California 2.6% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 2.6% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1977–2018 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.