Raekwon
Raekwon was given to 9 boys in 2025, #8,756 among boys’ names; 2,295 Americans have been recorded with it since 1994 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,240 Americans named Raekwon and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 28 years old and half are between 25 and 30.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Raekwon by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Raekwon?
#8,756 among boys’ names, 2025
Raekwon fell from #6,979 in 2015 to #8,756 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 6.3 to 5.3 per million.
451 babies in 1996, the peak
Raekwon peaked in 1996, when 451 babies were given it (445 boys, #483 among boys’ names). The 9 births of 2025 are 2% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #8,756 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 14 | #6,399 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 20 | #5,014 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 20 | #4,973 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 25 | #4,200 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 17 | #5,399 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 14 | #6,324 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 21 | #4,700 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 9 | #8,658 | under 0.01 |
| 2016 | 9 | #8,650 | under 0.01 |
Every recorded year (32)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 12 | #6,979 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 7 | #10,458 | under 0.01 |
| 2013 | 8 | #9,448 | under 0.01 |
| 2012 | 8 | #9,493 | under 0.01 |
| 2011 | 11 | #7,374 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 19 | #4,987 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 18 | #5,257 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 20 | #4,852 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 23 | #4,336 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 31 | #3,434 | 0.02 |
| 2005 | 36 | #2,941 | 0.02 |
| 2004 | 56 | #2,121 | 0.03 |
| 2003 | 56 | #2,045 | 0.03 |
| 2002 | 75 | #1,612 | 0.04 |
| 2001 | 108 | #1,237 | 0.06 |
| 2000 | 145 | #1,010 | 0.07 |
| 1999 | 180 | #840 | 0.09 |
| 1998 | 249 | #683 | 0.13 |
| 1997 | 282 | #618 | 0.15 |
| 1996 | 445 | #483 | 0.23 |
| 1995 | 303 | #588 | 0.16 |
| 1994 | 39 | #2,108 | 0.02 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Raekwon a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Raekwon has been given almost only to boys: 6 girls in 32 years of records.
Girls and boys named Raekwon: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Raekwon, and how old are they?
2,240 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 2,295 Americans ever recorded as Raekwon. The median Raekwon alive today is 28 years old; half are between 25 and 30.
The 2020 Census counted 1,458 people named Raekwon (7 women and girls, 1,451 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,159 born in the U.S. The Census count is 32% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 768 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,290 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 184 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Raekwon born?
The states with the most babies named Raekwon are North Carolina, Virginia and South Carolina, with 39% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Virginia and South Carolina are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Carolina | 273 | not ranked | 4.1× |
| Virginia | 185 | not ranked | 3.3× |
| South Carolina | 159 | not ranked | 5.3× |
| New York | 148 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Georgia | 131 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| Florida | 116 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Maryland | 104 | not ranked | 2.5× |
| Pennsylvania | 90 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| New Jersey | 87 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Illinois | 84 | not ranked | 0.8× |
Where Raekwon is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Raekwon is most over-represented in South Carolina: since 1994 it was given 5.3 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Raekwon with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 2,546 babies since 1880, Raekwon is the most given (90% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Raekwon
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Raekwon and names like it
- Compare Raekwon and RaykwonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sRaekwon peaked in 1996.
- North Carolina’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Raekwon since 1910.
- The top names of 1996The year the most babies were named Raekwon.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Raekwon alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with RMost given first.