Rajah
Rajah was given to 7 boys in 2025, #10,429 among boys’ names; 618 Americans have been recorded with it since 1951 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rajah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Rajah?
#10,429 among boys’ names, 2025
Rajah rose from #11,756 in 2015 to #10,429 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 3.1 to 4.1 per million.
44 babies in 1994, the peak
Rajah peaked in 1994, when 44 babies were given it (24 boys, #3,004 among boys’ names). The 7 births of 2025 are 16% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | under 5 | 7 | #10,429 | |
| 2024 | under 5 | 9 | #8,815 | |
| 2023 | under 5 | 15 | #6,149 | |
| 2022 | 7 | #13,273 | 11 | #7,627 |
| 2021 | under 5 | 11 | #7,457 | |
| 2020 | under 5 | 17 | #5,402 | |
| 2019 | under 5 | 16 | #5,736 | |
| 2018 | 7 | #13,493 | 15 | #5,973 |
| 2017 | under 5 | 14 | #6,263 | |
| 2016 | 9 | #11,574 | 14 | #6,270 |
Every recorded year (48)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | under 5 | 6 | #11,756 | |
| 2014 | under 5 | 11 | #7,431 | |
| 2013 | 5 | #18,672 | 11 | #7,433 |
| 2012 | under 5 | 15 | #5,917 | |
| 2011 | 6 | #16,320 | 11 | #7,378 |
| 2010 | under 5 | 10 | #7,988 | |
| 2009 | 7 | #14,862 | 11 | #7,576 |
| 2008 | 8 | #13,526 | 5 | #14,121 |
| 2007 | under 5 | 9 | #8,743 | |
| 2006 | 5 | #19,347 | 13 | #6,374 |
| 2005 | 7 | #14,154 | under 5 | |
| 2004 | 6 | #15,627 | 5 | #12,777 |
| 2003 | under 5 | 11 | #6,613 | |
| 2002 | 7 | #13,291 | 15 | #5,076 |
| 2001 | 13 | #8,074 | 9 | #7,372 |
| 2000 | 11 | #9,010 | 11 | #6,203 |
| 1999 | 10 | #9,315 | 5 | #11,200 |
| 1998 | 12 | #7,904 | 12 | #5,386 |
| 1997 | 8 | #10,549 | 7 | #7,917 |
| 1996 | under 5 | 6 | #8,745 | |
| 1995 | 17 | #5,623 | 7 | #7,596 |
| 1994 | 20 | #4,970 | 24 | #3,004 |
| 1993 | 5 | #15,171 | 7 | #7,423 |
| 1992 | under 5 | 7 | #7,212 | |
| 1991 | 5 | #14,792 | 7 | #7,090 |
| 1990 | under 5 | 7 | #6,979 | |
| 1989 | under 5 | 5 | #8,922 | |
| 1987 | under 5 | 5 | #7,848 | |
| 1986 | under 5 | 5 | #7,554 | |
| 1985 | under 5 | 6 | #6,328 | |
| 1983 | under 5 | 7 | #5,341 | |
| 1982 | under 5 | 7 | #5,471 | |
| 1979 | under 5 | 7 | #5,231 | |
| 1978 | under 5 | 5 | #6,536 | |
| 1974 | under 5 | 7 | #4,517 | |
| 1972 | under 5 | 5 | #5,555 | |
| 1970 | under 5 | 8 | #3,750 | |
| 1951 | under 5 | 5 | #4,122 |
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 Rajah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 618 Americans recorded as Rajah, 28% are girls and 72% boys. In 2025 it went to 7 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 Rajah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rajah, and how old are they?
An estimated 602 Americans named Rajah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 23 years old and half are between 10 and 31. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 586 people named Rajah (188 women and girls, 398 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 534 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% above 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 5 names spelled alike, given to 2,176 babies since 1880, Rajah is the second most given (28% of them). In 2025 it was given to 7 of their 26 babies (27%), again the second 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 Rajah
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 Rajah and names like it
- Compare Rajah and RajaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sRajah peaked in 1994.
- The top names of 1994The year the most babies were named Rajah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Rajah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with RMost given first.