Rajan
Rajan was given to 11 boys in 2025, #7,555 among boys’ names; 1,038 Americans have been recorded with it since 1966 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rajan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Rajan?
#7,555 among boys’ names, 2025
Rajan fell from #6,233 in 2015 to #7,555 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 7.3 to 6.4 per million.
35 babies in 2007, the peak
Rajan peaked in 2007, when 35 boys were given it, #3,227 among boys’ names. The 11 births of 2025 are 31% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #7,555 | 6.4 |
| 2024 | 13 | #6,728 | 7.5 |
| 2023 | 8 | #9,546 | 4.7 |
| 2022 | 5 | #13,857 | 2.9 |
| 2021 | 11 | #7,458 | 6.3 |
| 2020 | 9 | #8,567 | 5.2 |
| 2019 | 8 | #9,542 | 4.5 |
| 2018 | 8 | #9,465 | 4.4 |
| 2017 | 17 | #5,464 | 9.2 |
| 2016 | 18 | #5,268 | 9.5 |
Every recorded year (59)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 14 | #6,233 | 7.3 |
| 2014 | 14 | #6,225 | 7.3 |
| 2013 | 27 | #3,831 | 14.3 |
| 2012 | 19 | #4,997 | 10.0 |
| 2011 | 27 | #3,865 | 14.2 |
| 2010 | 17 | #5,417 | 8.9 |
| 2009 | 31 | #3,527 | 15.6 |
| 2008 | 26 | #4,003 | 12.7 |
| 2007 | 35 | #3,227 | 16.9 |
| 2006 | 27 | #3,751 | 13.1 |
| 2005 | 27 | #3,588 | 13.5 |
| 2004 | 28 | #3,431 | 14.1 |
| 2003 | 24 | #3,696 | 12.1 |
| 2002 | 29 | #3,164 | 14.9 |
| 2001 | 18 | #4,418 | 9.3 |
| 2000 | 21 | #3,875 | 10.7 |
| 1999 | 28 | #3,007 | 14.6 |
| 1998 | 29 | #2,835 | 15.2 |
| 1997 | 28 | #2,803 | 14.9 |
| 1996 | 21 | #3,370 | 11.1 |
| 1995 | 26 | #2,826 | 13.7 |
| 1994 | 26 | #2,825 | 13.5 |
| 1993 | 21 | #3,217 | 10.7 |
| 1992 | 21 | #3,183 | 10.5 |
| 1991 | 17 | #3,586 | 8.4 |
| 1990 | 19 | #3,271 | 9.3 |
| 1989 | 16 | #3,576 | 8.0 |
| 1988 | 15 | #3,485 | 7.8 |
| 1987 | 13 | #3,674 | 7.0 |
| 1986 | 18 | #2,857 | 9.8 |
| 1985 | 15 | #3,175 | 8.1 |
| 1984 | 18 | #2,680 | 10.0 |
| 1983 | 16 | #2,883 | 8.9 |
| 1982 | 18 | #2,678 | 9.9 |
| 1981 | 22 | #2,316 | 12.3 |
| 1980 | 18 | #2,700 | 10.1 |
| 1979 | 14 | #3,124 | 8.1 |
| 1978 | 16 | #2,766 | 9.7 |
| 1977 | 14 | #3,010 | 8.5 |
| 1976 | 11 | #3,426 | 7.0 |
| 1975 | 9 | #3,867 | 5.8 |
| 1974 | 14 | #2,765 | 8.9 |
| 1973 | 13 | #2,826 | 8.3 |
| 1972 | 14 | #2,632 | 8.6 |
| 1971 | 7 | #4,279 | 4.0 |
| 1970 | 9 | #3,460 | 4.8 |
| 1969 | 7 | #3,848 | 3.9 |
| 1967 | 8 | #3,181 | 4.6 |
| 1966 | 5 | #4,392 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Rajan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Rajan has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 59 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Rajan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rajan, and how old are they?
An estimated 999 Americans named Rajan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 27 years old and half are between 17 and 39. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 2,535 people named Rajan (50 women and girls, 2,485 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 955 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.7 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).
Where are babies named Rajan born?
The states with the most babies named Rajan are California, New York and New Jersey, with 100% of its births recorded by state since 1910; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 170 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| New York | 11 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| New Jersey | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Rajan is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Rajan is most over-represented in California: since 1966 it was given 1.3 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Rajan with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 2,212 babies since 1880, Rajan is the most given (47% of them).
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 Rajan
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 Rajan and names like it
- Compare Rajan and RajonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sRajan peaked in 2007.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Rajan since 1910.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Rajan.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Rajan alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with RMost given first.