Ravi
Ravi was given to 160 boys in 2025, #1,249 among boys’ names; 3,610 Americans have been recorded with it since 1963 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,470 Americans named Ravi and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 26 years old and half are between 9 and 39.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ravi by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Ravi mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Ravi is “a male given name used in India.” Its etymology gives the sense “the sun or the sun-god.” (रवि).
Borrowed from Sanskrit रवि (ravi, “the sun or the sun-god.”).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Ravi?
#1,249 among boys’ names, 2025
Ravi rose from #2,634 in 2015 to #1,249 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 24.5 to 93.7 per million.
167 babies in 2024, the peak
Ravi peaked in 2024, when 167 boys were given it, #1,219 among boys’ names. The 160 births of 2025 are 96% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 160 | #1,249 | 93.7 |
| 2024 | 167 | #1,219 | 96.9 |
| 2023 | 127 | #1,438 | 74.2 |
| 2022 | 119 | #1,520 | 68.2 |
| 2021 | 94 | #1,737 | 53.7 |
| 2020 | 72 | #1,991 | 41.7 |
| 2019 | 57 | #2,384 | 31.8 |
| 2018 | 49 | #2,606 | 27.0 |
| 2017 | 44 | #2,788 | 23.8 |
| 2016 | 50 | #2,543 | 26.3 |
Every recorded year (63)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 47 | #2,634 | 24.5 |
| 2014 | 60 | #2,246 | 31.2 |
| 2013 | 53 | #2,389 | 28.0 |
| 2012 | 45 | #2,705 | 23.7 |
| 2011 | 52 | #2,430 | 27.4 |
| 2010 | 39 | #2,998 | 20.3 |
| 2009 | 51 | #2,509 | 25.7 |
| 2008 | 55 | #2,370 | 27.0 |
| 2007 | 42 | #2,857 | 20.2 |
| 2006 | 68 | #1,987 | 33.1 |
| 2005 | 60 | #2,072 | 30.0 |
| 2004 | 57 | #2,092 | 28.7 |
| 2003 | 50 | #2,193 | 25.3 |
| 2002 | 52 | #2,080 | 26.8 |
| 2001 | 48 | #2,173 | 24.7 |
| 2000 | 58 | #1,840 | 29.5 |
| 1999 | 67 | #1,618 | 34.9 |
| 1998 | 67 | #1,579 | 35.1 |
| 1997 | 66 | #1,562 | 35.0 |
| 1996 | 74 | #1,416 | 39.1 |
| 1995 | 46 | #1,877 | 24.2 |
| 1994 | 56 | #1,633 | 29.0 |
| 1993 | 60 | #1,530 | 30.6 |
| 1992 | 63 | #1,462 | 31.5 |
| 1991 | 59 | #1,490 | 29.2 |
| 1990 | 88 | #1,159 | 42.8 |
| 1989 | 82 | #1,177 | 41.0 |
| 1988 | 75 | #1,169 | 39.2 |
| 1987 | 82 | #1,059 | 43.9 |
| 1986 | 80 | #1,047 | 43.4 |
| 1985 | 78 | #1,046 | 42.2 |
| 1984 | 69 | #1,082 | 38.2 |
| 1983 | 41 | #1,509 | 22.9 |
| 1982 | 61 | #1,187 | 33.6 |
| 1981 | 44 | #1,447 | 24.6 |
| 1980 | 61 | #1,174 | 34.2 |
| 1979 | 51 | #1,301 | 29.6 |
| 1978 | 48 | #1,320 | 29.2 |
| 1977 | 37 | #1,538 | 22.5 |
| 1976 | 52 | #1,207 | 33.1 |
| 1975 | 47 | #1,253 | 30.1 |
| 1974 | 35 | #1,495 | 22.3 |
| 1973 | 37 | #1,394 | 23.7 |
| 1972 | 29 | #1,632 | 17.9 |
| 1971 | 29 | #1,658 | 16.4 |
| 1970 | 32 | #1,514 | 17.2 |
| 1969 | 26 | #1,630 | 14.5 |
| 1968 | 32 | #1,385 | 18.4 |
| 1967 | 22 | #1,700 | 12.6 |
| 1966 | 9 | #2,930 | 5.0 |
| 1965 | 6 | #3,837 | 3.2 |
| 1964 | 11 | #2,625 | 5.5 |
| 1963 | 7 | #3,576 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Ravi a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ravi has been given almost only to boys: 5 girls in 63 years of records.
Girls and boys named Ravi: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ravi, and how old are they?
3,470 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 3,610 Americans ever recorded as Ravi. The median Ravi alive today is 26 years old; half are between 9 and 39.
The 2020 Census counted 9,577 people named Ravi (144 women and girls, 9,433 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,793 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.4 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 14 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 500 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,010 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 862 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,090 |
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).
Where are babies named Ravi born?
The states with the most babies named Ravi are Massachusetts, Florida and California, with 64% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Massachusetts is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Massachusetts | 40 | #171 | 1.8× |
| Florida | 19 | #802 | 0.8× |
| California | 13 | #1,415 | 1.0× |
| New York | 12 | #1,043 | 1.8× |
| New Jersey | 11 | #639 | 2.6× |
| Pennsylvania | 8 | #990 | 0.5× |
| Texas | 5 | #2,863 | 0.2× |
| South Carolina | 5 | #847 | 0.3× |
Where Ravi is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Ravi is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 1963 it was given 2.6 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 Ravi with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Ravi
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 Ravi and names like it
- Compare Ravi and DereckBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sRavi peaked in 2024.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ravi since 1910.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Ravi.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Ravi alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with RMost given first.