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Rahil

Rahil reached its high-water mark in 2004 at number 3,285, and has been recorded 738 times in all. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 8,910th. About 730 Rahils are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 12.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 8 16 24 32 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Rahil boys named Rahil

Girls and boys called Rahil

Share of the name given to girls, 1880 to 2025 0% 25% 50% 75% 100% 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

years more girls than boys years more boys than girls

Rahil crossed from boys to girls in 2021, and has stayed there for 5 of the years counted since. At its furthest it was 83% girls, which is roughly where it still is.

The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 13 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.

By the numbers

Total US births
738
Estimated living today
730
Median age today
12
Peak year
2004
Best rank
3,285th
Rank in 2025
8,910th
First recorded
1980
Girls / boys
193 / 545

How old the living Rahils are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 13 25 38 50 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 738 babies given the name since 1980, about 730 are alive — 99 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2013 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where Rahil is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Rahil is most concentrated in California (4.8×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2004

The most popular boys’ names the year Rahil peaked:

All the names of 2004

Rahil elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
England and Wales boys Rahil 232 1,078th
France girls Rahil 190 2,003rd
France boys Rahil 75 2,109th
England and Wales girls Rahil 29 2,689th
Switzerland girls Rahil 18 1,140th
Belgium girls Rahil 12 1,076th

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Rahil: births by region

RegionCountry Spelling BirthsShare of the region Best rank
German girls Switzerland Rahil 17 0.001% 867th
French girls Switzerland Rahil 1 0.000% 859th

Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.

Rahil: rank by region

In 2024, Rahil was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.

Region Spelling Place Children
Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste Rahil 8 1

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Italy after 10 names – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.

Rahil among the living

How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.

Country Spelling First forename Any forename
Finland girls Rahil 15 18

A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.

Related names

Rahil against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.