Raahul
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Raahul has been given to 5 babies in the U.S. since 1999. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1999, with 5 recorded.
Babies named Raahul, 1999
1 in 738,000
Raahul over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Raahul?
Raahul had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1999, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1999
- 1 in 738,000
- 5 of 3,692,373 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 384,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 1999
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 511,873 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Raahul sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1999 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 511,873 children born in 1999 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Raahul. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Raahuls were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Raahul was born before 1999 — so the typical Raahul is around 26 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 100.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 5
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (5).
Is Raahul 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1999 (5)
- Years since peak
- 26
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Not enough data
- Too few years
Spellings of Raahul
Raahul is not the most common spelling — Raul is, with 89.7% against Raahul'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.
Raahul around the world
Where Raahul 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 & Wales2007–2007#4,333in 2007
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.
Raahul by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Raahul
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Raahul
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.