Rahil
Rahil is given to both girls and boys: 32 girls and 8 boys were given it in 2025 (#4,437 among girls’ names and #9,493 among boys’, #6,598 among all names counting both); 738 Americans have been recorded with it since 1980 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rahil by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Rahil?
#9,493 among boys’ names, 2025
Rahil fell from #4,847 in 2015 to #9,493 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 10.4 to 4.7 per million.
44 babies in 2024, the peak
Rahil peaked in 2024, when 44 babies were given it (14 boys, #6,400 among boys’ names). The 40 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 91% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 32 | #4,437 | 8 | #9,493 |
| 2024 | 30 | #4,638 | 14 | #6,400 |
| 2023 | 30 | #4,629 | 6 | #11,923 |
| 2022 | 26 | #5,134 | 9 | #8,823 |
| 2021 | 16 | #7,185 | 10 | #8,018 |
| 2020 | 13 | #8,308 | 14 | #6,208 |
| 2019 | 9 | #11,175 | 17 | #5,503 |
| 2018 | 7 | #13,490 | 22 | #4,571 |
| 2017 | 13 | #8,671 | 17 | #5,463 |
| 2016 | 6 | #15,812 | 12 | #7,038 |
Every recorded year (40)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 5 | #18,512 | 20 | #4,847 |
| 2014 | under 5 | 21 | #4,659 | |
| 2013 | under 5 | 15 | #5,849 | |
| 2012 | under 5 | 18 | #5,193 | |
| 2011 | under 5 | 18 | #5,141 | |
| 2010 | under 5 | 14 | #6,290 | |
| 2009 | 6 | #16,798 | 20 | #4,883 |
| 2008 | under 5 | 18 | #5,201 | |
| 2007 | under 5 | 17 | #5,379 | |
| 2006 | under 5 | 18 | #5,015 | |
| 2005 | under 5 | 27 | #3,587 | |
| 2004 | under 5 | 29 | #3,345 | |
| 2003 | under 5 | 18 | #4,568 | |
| 2002 | under 5 | 18 | #4,447 | |
| 2001 | under 5 | 17 | #4,628 | |
| 2000 | under 5 | 10 | #6,701 | |
| 1999 | under 5 | 14 | #4,963 | |
| 1998 | under 5 | 11 | #5,738 | |
| 1997 | under 5 | 7 | #7,915 | |
| 1996 | under 5 | 13 | #4,814 | |
| 1995 | under 5 | 9 | #6,285 | |
| 1994 | under 5 | 11 | #5,370 | |
| 1993 | under 5 | 6 | #8,432 | |
| 1992 | under 5 | 8 | #6,545 | |
| 1991 | under 5 | 8 | #6,373 | |
| 1990 | under 5 | 6 | #7,870 | |
| 1989 | under 5 | 6 | #7,671 | |
| 1988 | under 5 | 9 | #5,115 | |
| 1986 | under 5 | 5 | #7,551 | |
| 1980 | under 5 | 5 | #7,036 |
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 Rahil a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 738 Americans recorded as Rahil, 26% are girls and 74% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Rahil: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rahil, and how old are they?
An estimated 728 Americans named Rahil and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 6 and 22. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 870 people named Rahil (189 women and girls, 681 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 530 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.
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 7 names spelled alike, given to 96,597 babies since 1880, Rahil is the fourth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 40 of their 566 babies (7.1%), 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 Rahil
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 Rahil and names like it
- Compare Rahil and RaulBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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