Rahi
Rahi is given to both girls and boys: 28 girls and 10 boys were given it in 2025 (#4,846 among girls’ names and #8,084 among boys’, #6,812 among all names counting both); 266 Americans have been recorded with it since 1998 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rahi by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Rahi?
#4,846 among girls’ names, 2025
Rahi rose from #11,625 in 2015 to #4,846 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 5.0 to 17.4 per million.
38 babies in 2025, the peak
Rahi peaked in 2025, when 38 babies were given it (28 girls, #4,846 among girls’ names). In 2024 it went to 20 girls.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 28 | #4,846 | 10 | #8,084 |
| 2024 | 20 | #6,107 | 5 | #13,766 |
| 2023 | 17 | #6,864 | under 5 | |
| 2022 | 8 | #11,989 | under 5 | |
| 2021 | 7 | #13,178 | 6 | #11,804 |
| 2020 | under 5 | 5 | #13,584 | |
| 2019 | 14 | #8,049 | 8 | #9,538 |
| 2018 | 6 | #15,226 | 8 | #9,461 |
| 2017 | 6 | #15,502 | under 5 | |
| 2016 | 12 | #9,300 | under 5 |
Every recorded year (24)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 9 | #11,625 | under 5 | |
| 2013 | 10 | #10,834 | 5 | #13,596 |
| 2012 | 7 | #14,642 | under 5 | |
| 2011 | 8 | #13,094 | under 5 | |
| 2009 | 6 | #16,797 | under 5 | |
| 2008 | 5 | #19,769 | under 5 | |
| 2007 | 8 | #13,628 | 5 | #13,913 |
| 2006 | 10 | #11,229 | under 5 | |
| 2005 | 5 | #18,511 | under 5 | |
| 2004 | 7 | #13,848 | under 5 | |
| 2002 | under 5 | 5 | #12,059 | |
| 2001 | 6 | #14,886 | under 5 | |
| 1999 | 5 | #16,252 | under 5 | |
| 1998 | under 5 | 5 | #10,901 |
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 Rahi a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 266 Americans recorded as Rahi, 77% are girls and 23% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Rahi: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rahi, and how old are they?
An estimated 264 Americans named Rahi and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 8 years old and half are between 3 and 17. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 327 people named Rahi (180 women and girls, 147 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 160 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.0 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 36,477 babies since 1880, Rahi is the sixth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 38 of their 1,241 babies (3.1%), the fourth 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 Rahi
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 Rahi and names like it
- Compare Rahi and RaeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sRahi peaked in 2025.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Rahi since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Rahi.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Rahi alive today were born 2013-2025.
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