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Rachana

Girls' name

Work, creation

Rachana has been given to 272 babies in the U.S. since 1977. 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 2002, with 16 recorded.

Babies named Rachana, 2018

1 in 502,000

Rachana over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Rachana: meaning, origin, and history

Work, creation

Sanskrit

What Rachana means

Rachana means “work, creation”, associated with racanā.

Origin, language, and formation

Rachana is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 272 girls were recorded with the name Rachana between 1977 and 2018. Its highest annual count was 16 in 2002; its best national rank was #6,110 in 1983.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Rachana?

Rachana had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2018, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2018
1 in 502,000
7 of 3,516,853 births
Among girls only
1 in 243,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2018
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
348,244 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Rachana 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 2018 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 348,244 children born in 2018 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rachana. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Rachanas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Rachana was born before 2000 — so the typical Rachana is around 25 today.

Median birth year
2000
About 25 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
36.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
66.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
272
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 36.4% of all recorded uses (99).

Is Rachana 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2002 (16)
Years since peak
23
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
27.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#6,110
1983

Spellings of Rachana

Rachana is not the most common spelling — Rachael is, with 76.6% against Rachana's 0.25%.

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 Rachana is used

Across 1910–2025, Rachana was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,287,539 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 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. Rachana has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Rachana around the world

Where Rachana 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
    2007–2007
    #5,201
    in 2007
  • France
    1989–1989
    #3,501
    in 1989
  • South Australia
    2004–2004
    #700
    in 2004

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

Rachana by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#6,110
1983
Peak year
2002
16 that year
First recorded
1977
Last recorded
2018
All-time count
272
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Rachana

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

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Sibling names for Rachana

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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