Raja
Raja was given to 14 boys in 2025, #6,357 among boys’ names; 1,240 Americans have been recorded with it since 1967 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,210 Americans named Raja and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 24 years old and half are between 14 and 32.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Raja by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Raja?
#6,357 among boys’ names, 2025
Raja fell from #5,923 in 2015 to #6,357 in 2025 among boys’ names, although its share of boys born rose from 7.8 to 8.2 per million.
53 babies in 2001, the peak
Raja peaked in 2001, when 53 babies were given it (36 boys, #2,664 among boys’ names). The 14 births of 2025 are 26% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | under 5 | 14 | #6,357 | |
| 2024 | 7 | #13,144 | 13 | #6,727 |
| 2023 | under 5 | 21 | #4,846 | |
| 2022 | 5 | #17,213 | 18 | #5,377 |
| 2021 | 5 | #17,116 | 16 | #5,719 |
| 2020 | 7 | #13,153 | 13 | #6,541 |
| 2019 | 10 | #10,302 | 19 | #5,108 |
| 2018 | under 5 | 20 | #4,880 | |
| 2017 | 10 | #10,534 | 22 | #4,557 |
| 2016 | under 5 | 13 | #6,632 |
Every recorded year (56)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 8 | #12,743 | 15 | #5,923 |
| 2014 | 8 | #12,811 | 13 | #6,542 |
| 2013 | 6 | #16,099 | 19 | #4,927 |
| 2012 | 10 | #11,063 | 20 | #4,812 |
| 2011 | 9 | #11,937 | 22 | #4,468 |
| 2010 | under 5 | 16 | #5,673 | |
| 2009 | 14 | #8,782 | 29 | #3,699 |
| 2008 | 6 | #17,002 | 29 | #3,712 |
| 2007 | 11 | #10,652 | 28 | #3,766 |
| 2006 | 18 | #7,077 | 28 | #3,662 |
| 2005 | under 5 | 15 | #5,508 | |
| 2004 | 17 | #7,019 | 17 | #4,952 |
| 2003 | 11 | #9,545 | 20 | #4,230 |
| 2002 | 16 | #6,964 | 24 | #3,637 |
| 2001 | 17 | #6,551 | 36 | #2,664 |
| 2000 | 14 | #7,477 | 16 | #4,732 |
| 1999 | 20 | #5,372 | 17 | #4,290 |
| 1998 | 20 | #5,300 | 18 | #3,966 |
| 1997 | 13 | #7,174 | 18 | #3,843 |
| 1996 | 11 | #7,979 | 20 | #3,518 |
| 1995 | 18 | #5,383 | 12 | #5,040 |
| 1994 | 11 | #7,999 | 21 | #3,302 |
| 1993 | 5 | #15,169 | 18 | #3,609 |
| 1992 | 6 | #12,937 | 12 | #4,791 |
| 1991 | 7 | #11,175 | 11 | #5,010 |
| 1990 | 5 | #14,629 | 8 | #6,268 |
| 1989 | under 5 | 9 | #5,483 | |
| 1988 | 7 | #10,075 | 12 | #4,101 |
| 1987 | under 5 | 15 | #3,299 | |
| 1986 | under 5 | 14 | #3,396 | |
| 1985 | under 5 | 7 | #5,602 | |
| 1984 | under 5 | 8 | #4,864 | |
| 1983 | under 5 | 11 | #3,812 | |
| 1982 | 6 | #10,122 | 14 | #3,246 |
| 1981 | under 5 | 6 | #6,061 | |
| 1980 | 6 | #10,007 | 13 | #3,385 |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,862 | 8 | #4,740 |
| 1978 | 6 | #9,406 | 9 | #4,083 |
| 1977 | 6 | #9,312 | 15 | #2,872 |
| 1976 | 9 | #6,439 | 14 | #2,920 |
| 1975 | 5 | #10,170 | 7 | #4,667 |
| 1973 | under 5 | 5 | #5,694 | |
| 1972 | under 5 | 5 | #5,554 | |
| 1971 | under 5 | 6 | #4,782 | |
| 1970 | under 5 | 8 | #3,749 | |
| 1967 | under 5 | 7 | #3,471 |
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 Raja a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,240 Americans recorded as Raja, 30% are girls and 70% boys. In 2025 it went to 14 boys; SSA lists no girls 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 Raja: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Raja, and how old are they?
1,210 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 1,240 Americans ever recorded as Raja. The median Raja alive today is 24 years old; half are between 14 and 32.
The 2020 Census counted 3,542 people named Raja (808 women and girls, 2,734 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,103 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.2 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 124 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 263 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 541 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 280 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 2,176 babies since 1880, Raja is the most given (57% of them). In 2025 it was given to 14 of their 26 babies (54%), 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 Raja
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1960-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Neftali | 2,677 |
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 Raja and names like it
- Compare Raja and RajahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sRaja peaked in 2001.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Raja since 1910.
- The top names of 2001The year the most babies were named Raja.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Raja alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with RMost given first.