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Rahim vs Rahzi

American parents have registered 1,905 Rahims since 1880, against 56 Rahzis. Rahim is still ahead, with 66 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Rahim against Rahzi, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Rahim Rahzi

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Rahim has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1967 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2024, when Rahim had 42 and Rahzi had 34.

Side by side

  Rahim Rahzi
Total US births 1,90556
Most in one year 6634
Babies in 2025 6622
Estimated living today 1,80060
Median age today 251
Peak year 20252024
Best rank 2,167th boys3,394th boys
Rank in 2025 2,167th4,539th
First recorded 19672024
Girls / boys 0 / 1,9050 / 56

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Rahims alive today are over 25; half the Rahzis are over 1. That is 24 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Rahim and Rahzi.