Rahul
The boy's name Rahul has been in the national records since 1966, with 3,332 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 8,910th. About 3,200 Rahuls are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 25.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Rahul
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 3,332
- Estimated living today
- 3,200
- Median age today
- 25
- Peak year
- 2000
- Best rank
- 818th
- Rank in 2025
- 8,910th
- First recorded
- 1966
How old the living Rahuls are
born that year still alive today
Of the 3,332 babies given the name since 1966, about 3,200 are alive — 97 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2000 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 the name comes from
Origin Sanskrit
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Rahuls
- Rahul Gandhi (born 1970)Indian politician (1970-present)
- Rahul Bose (born 1967)Indian actor
- Rahul Dravid (born 1973)Indian cricketer
- Rahul Sankrityayan (1893–1963)Indian Buddhist scholar, polyglot and travel writer (1893–1963); 'Father of Hindi travel literature'
- Rahul Dev Burman (1939–1994)Indian musician
- Rahul Kohli (born 1985)British actor
- Rahul Roy (born 1968)Indian actor
- Rahul Bajaj (1938–2022)Indian politician & businessman
People named Rahul with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Rahul is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Rahul is most concentrated in New Jersey (6.4×), California (3.0×), New York (2.2×), Illinois (1.8×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2000
The most popular boys’ names the year Rahul peaked:
Rahul elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Rahul | 1,247 | 247th |
| France boys | Rahul | 35 | 5,718th |
| Scotland boys | Rahul | 6 | 429th |
| Ireland boys | Rahul | 3 | 701st |
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.
Rahul 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 boys | Rahul | 17 | 23 |
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.
Where Rahul lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 204 men called Rahul were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Palmas, Las | Rahul | 20 | 0.034 | 2,144 |
| Girona | Rahul | 10 | 0.024 | 2,144 |
| Tarragona | Rahul | 10 | 0.023 | 2,151 |
| Barcelona | Rahul | 62 | 0.021 | 2,240 |
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Rahul | 8 | 0.015 | 4,257 |
| Balears, Illes | Rahul | 9 | 0.014 | 3,436 |
Listed in 8 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 44 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Rahul against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
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.