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Rabab

#7,806 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' name

Variant of Rubab

Rabab has been given to 184 babies in the U.S. since 1982. In 2025 it ranked #7,806 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 14 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 91% girls, 9% boys all-time.

Babies named Rabab, 2025

1 in 237,000

Rabab over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Rabab over time

In 2025, Rabab went to 61% girls and 39% boys.

19822025

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Rabab: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Rubab

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Rabab means

Rabab is a variant of Rubab.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Rubab.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 167 girls were recorded with the name Rabab between 1982 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 14 in 2025; its best national rank was #7,806 in 2025.

In the United States, 17 boys were recorded with the name Rabab between 2024 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 9 in 2025; its best national rank was #8,753 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 Rabab?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 237,000
14 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 115,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#7,806
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
164,137 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Rabab sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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 164,137 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rabab. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Rababs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Rabab was born before 2007 — so the typical Rabab is around 18 today.

Median birth year
2007
About 18 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
33.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
65.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
167
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2020s — 33.5% of all recorded uses (56).

Is Rabab 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
+1,025
Places climbed
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
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (14)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#7,806
2025

Spellings of Rabab

Rabab is not the most common spelling — Reba is, with 56.1% against Rabab's 0.26%.

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 Rabab is used

Across 1910–2025, Rabab was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,677,598 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Rabab has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Rabab around the world

Where Rabab 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
    1997–2025
    #997
    in 2025
  • France
    1986–2024
    #5,717
    in 2024
  • Canada
    2008–2024
    #374
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1980–1980
    #634
    in 1980

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Rabab by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#7,806
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#7,806
2025
Peak year
2025
14 that year
First recorded
1982
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
167
Count in 2025
14

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#8,753
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#8,753
2025
Peak year
2025
9 that year
First recorded
2024
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
17
Count in 2025
9

Names similar to Rabab

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

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Sibling names for Rabab

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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