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Raad

#5,553 in 2025Boys' name

Alternate transcription of Ra'd

Raad has been given to 213 babies in the U.S. since 1995. In 2025 it ranked #5,553 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 17 recorded.

Babies named Raad, 2025

1 in 195,000

Raad over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Raad: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Ra'd

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Raad means

Raad is a alternate transcription of Ra'd.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Ra'd.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 213 boys were recorded with the name Raad between 1995 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 17 in 2023; its best national rank was #5,553 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #6,537 in 2020 to #5,553 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #8,558 in 2015 to #5,553 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Raad?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 195,000
17 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 100,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#5,553
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
135,172 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Raad sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 135,172 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Raad. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Raads were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Raad was born before 2018 — so the typical Raad is around 7 today.

Median birth year
2018
About 7 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
39.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
87.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
213
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Choose a decade

2020s — 39.4% of all recorded uses (84).

Is Raad rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+1,603
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+984
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+3,005
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.89×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2023 (17)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,553
2025

Spellings of Raad

Raad is not the most common spelling — Ryan is, with 45.0% against Raad's <0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Raad is used

Across 1910–2025, Raad was most concentrated in Michigan — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,808,455 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Michigan1 in —
  2. 2New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Raad has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Raad around the world

Where Raad ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2017–2024
    #5,120
    in 2024
  • Canada
    2022–2024
    #2,328
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Raad by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#5,553
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 984
Best rank ever
#5,553
2025
Peak year
2023
17 that year
First recorded
1995
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
213
Count in 2025
17

Names similar to Raad

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

RaamRaahimImaadEmaadAzaadRaayanRaagRaahiAsaadRaahilSaadJaadMuaadJahaadSamaadIbaadAyaadAmaadRaaghavAshaadSahaadMahaadAhmaadIyaad

Sibling names for Raad

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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