Rakan
Rakan was given to 83 boys in 2025, #1,900 among boys’ names; 938 Americans have been recorded with it since 1981 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rakan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Rakan mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Rakan is “a male given name from Arabic.” Its etymology gives the sense “steadfast, strong” (راكان).
Borrowed from Arabic راكان (“steadfast, strong”).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Rakan?
#1,900 among boys’ names, 2025
Rakan rose from #3,346 in 2015 to #1,900 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 17.7 to 48.6 per million.
83 babies in 2025, the peak
Rakan peaked in 2025, when 83 boys were given it, #1,900 among boys’ names. In 2024 it went to 50 boys.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 83 | #1,900 | 48.6 |
| 2024 | 50 | #2,659 | 29.0 |
| 2023 | 68 | #2,142 | 39.8 |
| 2022 | 63 | #2,292 | 36.1 |
| 2021 | 34 | #3,398 | 19.4 |
| 2020 | 30 | #3,629 | 17.4 |
| 2019 | 54 | #2,478 | 30.1 |
| 2018 | 57 | #2,349 | 31.4 |
| 2017 | 47 | #2,658 | 25.4 |
| 2016 | 54 | #2,405 | 28.5 |
Every recorded year (37)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 34 | #3,346 | 17.7 |
| 2014 | 33 | #3,355 | 17.2 |
| 2013 | 31 | #3,475 | 16.4 |
| 2012 | 25 | #4,097 | 13.2 |
| 2011 | 22 | #4,469 | 11.6 |
| 2010 | 10 | #7,990 | 5.2 |
| 2009 | 15 | #6,011 | 7.6 |
| 2008 | 12 | #7,089 | 5.9 |
| 2007 | 18 | #5,159 | 8.7 |
| 2006 | 13 | #6,375 | 6.3 |
| 2005 | 16 | #5,221 | 8.0 |
| 2004 | 7 | #9,698 | 3.5 |
| 2003 | 10 | #7,112 | 5.1 |
| 2002 | 17 | #4,654 | 8.8 |
| 2001 | 13 | #5,595 | 6.7 |
| 2000 | 17 | #4,516 | 8.7 |
| 1999 | 9 | #6,959 | 4.7 |
| 1998 | 18 | #3,967 | 9.4 |
| 1997 | 7 | #7,919 | 3.7 |
| 1996 | 18 | #3,787 | 9.5 |
| 1995 | 10 | #5,812 | 5.3 |
| 1994 | 9 | #6,224 | 4.7 |
| 1993 | 6 | #8,436 | 3.1 |
| 1991 | 9 | #5,823 | 4.5 |
| 1990 | 8 | #6,270 | 3.9 |
| 1986 | 6 | #6,524 | 3.3 |
| 1981 | 5 | #7,027 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Rakan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Rakan has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 37 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Rakan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rakan, and how old are they?
An estimated 927 Americans named Rakan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 4 and 17. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 595 people named Rakan (0 women and girls, 595 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 611 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% below that prediction.
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 3 names spelled alike, given to 1,139 babies since 1880, Rakan is the most given (82% of them). In 2025 it was given to 83 of their 83 babies (100%), 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 Rakan
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 Rakan and names like it
- Compare Rakan and RakinBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sRakan peaked in 2025.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Rakan since 1910.
- Arabic namesWiktionary’s origin for Rakan: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Rakan.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Rakan alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with RMost given first.