Meaning not yet researched.
Ravi: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 160 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,047 in 1985.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,047 in 1985; #1,249 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Ravi in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,249 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1985, at #1,047.
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Ravi: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 160 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,047 in 1985 · most boys in one year: 167 (2024).
In 2025, 160 US boys were named Ravi, making it the 1,249th most common boys’ name of the year, down 30 places from #1,219 in 2024. That is 7 fewer than the 167 boys named Ravi in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,047, reached in 1985. The most boys given the name in a single year was 167, in 2024. For comparison, it was #2,635 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Ravi in 63 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1963 with 7 babies. In all, 3,610 US babies have been given the name, 0.1% of them girls and 99.8% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 739 babies named Ravi.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 939 US boys were named Ravi; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 167. In 2025 that was about 1 in 10,675 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Ravi ranked highest in Massachusetts in 2025, at #171 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Raavi, Ravya and Ravy are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Raavi (77), Ravya (71), Ravy (11).
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 Ravi in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 43 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Massachusetts | 40 | #171 | — |
| New Jersey | 11 | #639 | — |
| Florida | 19 | #802 | #1,647 |
| South Carolina | 5 | #847 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 8 | #990 | #1,292 |
| New York | 12 | #1,043 | — |
| California | 13 | #1,415 | #2,842 |
| Texas | 5 | #2,863 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 160 | #1,249 |
| 2024 | — | — | 167 | #1,219 |
| 2023 | — | — | 127 | #1,438 |
| 2022 | — | — | 119 | #1,520 |
| 2021 | — | — | 94 | #1,737 |
| 2020 | — | — | 72 | #1,991 |
| 2019 | — | — | 57 | #2,385 |
| 2018 | — | — | 49 | #2,607 |
| 2017 | — | — | 44 | #2,789 |
| 2016 | — | — | 50 | #2,543 |
| 2015 | — | — | 47 | #2,635 |
| 2014 | — | — | 60 | #2,248 |
| 2013 | — | — | 53 | #2,390 |
| 2012 | — | — | 45 | #2,706 |
| 2011 | — | — | 52 | #2,431 |
| 2010 | — | — | 39 | #2,999 |
| 2009 | — | — | 51 | #2,510 |
| 2008 | — | — | 55 | #2,371 |
| 2007 | — | — | 42 | #2,858 |
| 2006 | — | — | 68 | #1,988 |
| 2005 | — | — | 60 | #2,076 |
| 2004 | — | — | 57 | #2,096 |
| 2003 | — | — | 50 | #2,197 |
| 2002 | — | — | 52 | #2,084 |
| 2001 | — | — | 48 | #2,177 |
| 2000 | — | — | 58 | #1,844 |
| 1999 | — | — | 67 | #1,621 |
| 1998 | — | — | 67 | #1,582 |
| 1997 | — | — | 66 | #1,565 |
| 1996 | — | — | 74 | #1,418 |
| 1995 | — | — | 46 | #1,882 |
| 1994 | — | — | 56 | #1,638 |
| 1993 | — | — | 60 | #1,535 |
| 1992 | — | — | 63 | #1,467 |
| 1991 | — | — | 59 | #1,496 |
| 1990 | — | — | 88 | #1,164 |
| 1989 | — | — | 82 | #1,181 |
| 1988 | — | — | 75 | #1,172 |
| 1987 | — | — | 82 | #1,060 |
| 1986 | — | — | 80 | #1,048 |
| 1985 | — | — | 78 | #1,047 |
| 1984 | — | — | 69 | #1,083 |
| 1983 | — | — | 41 | #1,510 |
| 1982 | — | — | 61 | #1,188 |
| 1981 | — | — | 44 | #1,448 |
| 1980 | — | — | 61 | #1,174 |
| 1979 | — | — | 51 | #1,301 |
| 1978 | — | — | 48 | #1,320 |
| 1977 | — | — | 37 | #1,538 |
| 1976 | — | — | 52 | #1,207 |
| 1975 | — | — | 47 | #1,253 |
| 1974 | — | — | 35 | #1,495 |
| 1973 | — | — | 37 | #1,394 |
| 1972 | — | — | 29 | #1,632 |
| 1971 | — | — | 29 | #1,659 |
| 1970 | — | — | 32 | #1,515 |
| 1969 | — | — | 26 | #1,631 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,891 | 32 | #1,385 |
| 1967 | — | — | 22 | #1,701 |
| 1966 | — | — | 9 | #2,931 |
| 1965 | — | — | 6 | #3,838 |
| 1964 | — | — | 11 | #2,626 |
| 1963 | — | — | 7 | #3,577 |
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).