Meaning not yet researched.
Rahul: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 8 in 2025. Its best rank was #818 in 2000.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #818 in 2000; #9,498 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Rahul in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#9,498 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2000, at #818.
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Rahul: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 8 boys in 2025. Peak: #818 in 2000 · most boys in one year: 196 (2000).
In 2025, 8 US boys were named Rahul, making it the 9,498th most common boys’ name of the year, up 2,519 places from #12,017 in 2024. That is 2 more than the 6 boys named Rahul in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #818, reached in 2000. That year also had the most boys given the name: 196. For comparison, it was #6,235 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Rahul in 58 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1966 with 5 babies. In all, 3,332 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 1,355 babies named Rahul.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 101 US boys were named Rahul; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 16. In 2025 that was about 1 in 213,510 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Raul (88,524 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Raheel and Raahil are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Raheel (342), Raahil (86).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Rahul in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 8 | #9,498 |
| 2024 | — | — | 6 | #12,017 |
| 2023 | — | — | 10 | #8,118 |
| 2022 | — | — | 10 | #8,163 |
| 2021 | — | — | 10 | #8,024 |
| 2020 | — | — | 7 | #10,346 |
| 2019 | — | — | 7 | #10,557 |
| 2018 | — | — | 13 | #6,620 |
| 2017 | — | — | 14 | #6,265 |
| 2016 | — | — | 16 | #5,731 |
| 2015 | — | — | 14 | #6,235 |
| 2014 | — | — | 30 | #3,597 |
| 2013 | — | — | 29 | #3,637 |
| 2012 | — | — | 37 | #3,099 |
| 2011 | — | — | 41 | #2,888 |
| 2010 | — | — | 57 | #2,282 |
| 2009 | — | — | 63 | #2,159 |
| 2008 | — | — | 84 | #1,788 |
| 2007 | — | — | 93 | #1,655 |
| 2006 | — | — | 105 | #1,466 |
| 2005 | — | — | 128 | #1,240 |
| 2004 | — | — | 166 | #999 |
| 2003 | — | — | 162 | #982 |
| 2002 | — | — | 171 | #944 |
| 2001 | — | — | 187 | #860 |
| 2000 | — | — | 196 | #818 |
| 1999 | — | — | 168 | #898 |
| 1998 | — | — | 142 | #976 |
| 1997 | — | — | 124 | #1,036 |
| 1996 | — | — | 85 | #1,299 |
| 1995 | — | — | 90 | #1,231 |
| 1994 | — | — | 97 | #1,160 |
| 1993 | — | — | 79 | #1,285 |
| 1992 | — | — | 64 | #1,448 |
| 1991 | — | — | 83 | #1,222 |
| 1990 | — | — | 45 | #1,774 |
| 1989 | — | — | 47 | #1,675 |
| 1988 | — | — | 51 | #1,498 |
| 1987 | — | — | 60 | #1,267 |
| 1986 | — | — | 52 | #1,379 |
| 1985 | — | — | 51 | #1,369 |
| 1984 | — | — | 41 | #1,524 |
| 1983 | — | — | 37 | #1,623 |
| 1982 | — | — | 38 | #1,615 |
| 1981 | — | — | 27 | #2,028 |
| 1980 | — | — | 38 | #1,585 |
| 1979 | — | — | 22 | #2,293 |
| 1978 | — | — | 41 | #1,466 |
| 1977 | — | — | 28 | #1,848 |
| 1976 | — | — | 25 | #1,979 |
| 1975 | — | — | 38 | #1,444 |
| 1974 | — | — | 29 | #1,685 |
| 1973 | — | — | 18 | #2,296 |
| 1972 | — | — | 9 | #3,541 |
| 1971 | — | — | 16 | #2,447 |
| 1970 | — | — | 10 | #3,230 |
| 1969 | — | — | 8 | #3,518 |
| 1966 | — | — | 5 | #4,390 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).