Raheel
Raheel was last recorded in 2025, when 12 babies were given it; 342 Americans have been recorded with it between 1982 and 2025 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Raheel by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Raheel?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #13,614, in 2021; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
19 babies in 2016, the peak
Raheel peaked in 2016, when 19 babies were given it (12 boys, #7,037 among boys’ names). The 12 births of 2025 are 63% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #8,742 | under 5 | |
| 2024 | 10 | #10,089 | under 5 | |
| 2023 | 12 | #8,859 | under 5 | |
| 2022 | 6 | #14,901 | under 5 | |
| 2021 | 11 | #9,405 | 5 | #13,614 |
| 2019 | 8 | #12,187 | under 5 | |
| 2018 | under 5 | 11 | #7,494 | |
| 2017 | 12 | #9,217 | 7 | #10,511 |
| 2016 | 7 | #14,022 | 12 | #7,037 |
| 2015 | 8 | #12,738 | 7 | #10,363 |
Every recorded year (39)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | under 5 | 7 | #10,460 | |
| 2013 | under 5 | 9 | #8,602 | |
| 2010 | under 5 | 5 | #13,778 | |
| 2009 | under 5 | 12 | #7,130 | |
| 2007 | under 5 | 8 | #9,546 | |
| 2006 | under 5 | 7 | #10,385 | |
| 2005 | under 5 | 9 | #8,139 | |
| 2004 | under 5 | 9 | #8,017 | |
| 2003 | under 5 | 5 | #12,299 | |
| 2001 | under 5 | 5 | #11,876 | |
| 2000 | under 5 | 7 | #8,907 | |
| 1999 | under 5 | 5 | #11,193 | |
| 1998 | under 5 | 8 | #7,370 | |
| 1997 | under 5 | 9 | #6,490 | |
| 1996 | under 5 | 5 | #10,168 | |
| 1995 | under 5 | 10 | #5,811 | |
| 1994 | under 5 | 8 | #6,822 | |
| 1993 | under 5 | 7 | #7,418 | |
| 1992 | under 5 | 10 | #5,550 | |
| 1991 | under 5 | 8 | #6,372 | |
| 1990 | under 5 | 7 | #6,977 | |
| 1989 | under 5 | 8 | #6,081 | |
| 1988 | under 5 | 8 | #5,599 | |
| 1987 | under 5 | 7 | #5,939 | |
| 1986 | under 5 | 5 | #7,550 | |
| 1985 | under 5 | 8 | #5,039 | |
| 1984 | under 5 | 7 | #5,440 | |
| 1983 | under 5 | 6 | #6,040 | |
| 1982 | under 5 | 5 | #7,113 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Raheel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 342 Americans recorded as Raheel, 25% are girls and 75% boys. In 2025 it went to 12 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Raheel: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Raheel, and how old are they?
An estimated 334 Americans named Raheel and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 9 and 32. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 707 people named Raheel (127 women and girls, 580 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 281 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.5 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.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 5,072 babies since 1880, Raheel is the fourth most given (6.7% of them). In 2025 it was given to 12 of their 126 babies (9.5%), the third most given that year.
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 Raheel
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 Raheel and names like it
- Compare Raheel and RahulBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sRaheel peaked in 2016.
- The top names of 2016The year the most babies were named Raheel.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Raheel alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with RMost given first.