Meaning not yet researched.
Rehan: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 39 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,820 in 2008.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,820 in 2008; #3,115 in 2025. About 85% of babies named Rehan in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,115 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2008, at #1,820.
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Rehan: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 39 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,820 in 2008 · most boys in one year: 81 (2008).
In 2025, 39 US boys were named Rehan, making it the 3,115th most common boys’ name of the year, up 89 places from #3,204 in 2024. That is 1 more than the 38 boys named Rehan in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,820, reached in 2008. That year also had the most boys given the name: 81. For comparison, it was #2,162 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 7 US girls were named Rehan, making it the 12,897th most common girls’ name of the year. Its best rank for girls was #11,968, reached in 2021. That year also had the most girls given the name: 8. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Rehan in 50 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1974 with 6 babies. In all, 1,488 US babies have been given the name, 1.9% of them girls and 98% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 630 babies named Rehan.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 463 US boys were named Rehan; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 70. In 2025 that was about 1 in 43,797 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Ryan (991,747 babies since 1880), Rian (9,118 babies since 1880), Ren (3,634 babies since 1880) and Riaan (1,846 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Reghan, Reighan and Reeghan 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: Reghan (895), Reighan (117), Reeghan (29), Reehan (6).
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 Rehan 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 | 7 | #12,897 | 39 | #3,115 |
| 2024 | — | — | 38 | #3,204 |
| 2023 | — | — | 39 | #3,165 |
| 2022 | — | — | 43 | #2,951 |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,968 | 37 | #3,230 |
| 2020 | — | — | 44 | #2,796 |
| 2019 | — | — | 45 | #2,796 |
| 2018 | — | — | 61 | #2,254 |
| 2017 | 7 | #13,802 | 47 | #2,660 |
| 2016 | — | — | 70 | #2,039 |
| 2015 | — | — | 64 | #2,162 |
| 2014 | — | — | 69 | #2,057 |
| 2013 | — | — | 65 | #2,084 |
| 2012 | — | — | 75 | #1,920 |
| 2011 | — | — | 60 | #2,195 |
| 2010 | 6 | #16,528 | 61 | #2,185 |
| 2009 | — | — | 71 | #1,986 |
| 2008 | — | — | 81 | #1,820 |
| 2007 | — | — | 79 | #1,843 |
| 2006 | — | — | 48 | #2,531 |
| 2005 | — | — | 14 | #5,811 |
| 2004 | — | — | 21 | #4,233 |
| 2003 | — | — | 16 | #4,989 |
| 2002 | — | — | 12 | #5,995 |
| 2001 | — | — | 18 | #4,428 |
| 2000 | — | — | 22 | #3,728 |
| 1999 | — | — | 15 | #4,712 |
| 1998 | — | — | 11 | #5,754 |
| 1997 | — | — | 10 | #6,001 |
| 1996 | — | — | 11 | #5,456 |
| 1995 | — | — | 9 | #6,304 |
| 1994 | — | — | 14 | #4,485 |
| 1993 | — | — | 8 | #6,690 |
| 1992 | — | — | 13 | #4,522 |
| 1991 | — | — | 12 | #4,702 |
| 1990 | — | — | 11 | #4,924 |
| 1989 | — | — | 12 | #4,471 |
| 1988 | — | — | 9 | #5,127 |
| 1987 | — | — | 10 | #4,510 |
| 1986 | — | — | 6 | #6,548 |
| 1984 | — | — | 11 | #3,880 |
| 1983 | — | — | 5 | #7,071 |
| 1982 | — | — | 9 | #4,504 |
| 1981 | — | — | 6 | #6,083 |
| 1980 | — | — | 7 | #5,383 |
| 1979 | — | — | 10 | #4,015 |
| 1977 | — | — | 5 | #6,642 |
| 1976 | — | — | 5 | #6,286 |
| 1975 | — | — | 6 | #5,317 |
| 1974 | — | — | 6 | #5,103 |
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).