Raghav
Raghav was given to 87 boys in 2025, #1,835 among boys’ names; 1,335 Americans have been recorded with it since 1990 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,320 Americans named Raghav and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 8 and 20.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Raghav by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Raghav mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Raghav is “a male given name from Sanskrit used in India.”
Borrowed from Sanskrit राघव (rāghava).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Raghav?
#1,835 among boys’ names, 2025
Raghav rose from #2,128 in 2015 to #1,835 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 34.4 to 50.9 per million.
87 babies in 2025, the peak
Raghav peaked in 2025, when 87 boys were given it, #1,835 among boys’ names. In 2024 it went to 71 boys.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 87 | #1,835 | 50.9 |
| 2024 | 71 | #2,111 | 41.2 |
| 2023 | 47 | #2,761 | 27.5 |
| 2022 | 40 | #3,088 | 22.9 |
| 2021 | 32 | #3,557 | 18.3 |
| 2020 | 20 | #4,816 | 11.6 |
| 2019 | 33 | #3,476 | 18.4 |
| 2018 | 45 | #2,735 | 24.8 |
| 2017 | 37 | #3,177 | 20.0 |
| 2016 | 55 | #2,380 | 29.0 |
Every recorded year (35)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 66 | #2,128 | 34.4 |
| 2014 | 50 | #2,506 | 26.0 |
| 2013 | 46 | #2,614 | 24.3 |
| 2012 | 53 | #2,406 | 27.9 |
| 2011 | 53 | #2,395 | 27.9 |
| 2010 | 50 | #2,501 | 26.1 |
| 2009 | 55 | #2,375 | 27.7 |
| 2008 | 53 | #2,424 | 26.0 |
| 2007 | 53 | #2,431 | 25.5 |
| 2006 | 54 | #2,342 | 26.3 |
| 2005 | 67 | #1,906 | 33.5 |
| 2004 | 43 | #2,556 | 21.7 |
| 2003 | 35 | #2,829 | 17.7 |
| 2002 | 39 | #2,535 | 20.1 |
| 2001 | 20 | #4,076 | 10.3 |
| 2000 | 26 | #3,270 | 13.2 |
| 1999 | 11 | #5,947 | 5.7 |
| 1998 | 11 | #5,737 | 5.8 |
| 1997 | 17 | #4,007 | 9.0 |
| 1996 | 16 | #4,135 | 8.4 |
| 1995 | 15 | #4,213 | 7.9 |
| 1994 | 5 | #9,897 | 2.6 |
| 1993 | 16 | #3,965 | 8.2 |
| 1992 | 8 | #6,544 | 4.0 |
| 1990 | 6 | #7,869 | 2.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Raghav a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Raghav has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 35 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Raghav: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Raghav, and how old are they?
1,320 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,335 Americans ever recorded as Raghav. The median Raghav alive today is 14 years old; half are between 8 and 20.
The 2020 Census counted 1,616 people named Raghav (1 woman or girl, 1,615 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,032 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.6 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 64 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 631 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 624 |
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 Raghav born?
The states with the most babies named Raghav are California, Texas and New Jersey, with 75% of its births recorded by state in 2025; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 21 | #1,033 | 1.6× |
| Texas | 11 | #1,627 | 0.6× |
| New Jersey | 10 | #687 | 3.2× |
| Washington | 8 | #791 | 0.3× |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,248 | 0.4× |
Where Raghav is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Raghav is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 1990 it was given 3.2 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 Raghav 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 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,420 babies since 1880, Raghav is the most given (94% of them). In 2025 it was given to 87 of their 87 babies (100%), again the most given.
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 Raghav
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 Raghav and names like it
- Compare Raghav and RaaghavBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sRaghav peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Raghav since 1910.
- Sanskrit namesWiktionary’s origin for Raghav: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Raghav.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Raghav alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with RMost given first.