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Rachit

Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded; Sanskrit origin

Rachit has been given to 130 babies in the U.S. since 2003. 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 2018, with 11 recorded.

Babies named Rachit, 2022

1 in 677,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Rachit: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded; Sanskrit origin

Sanskrit

What Rachit means

Rachit is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Rachit is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 130 boys were recorded with the name Rachit between 2003 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 11 in 2018; its best national rank was #7,492 in 2018.

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 Rachit?

Rachit had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2022
1 in 677,000
5 of 3,385,755 births
Among boys only
1 in 349,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2022
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
469,366 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Rachit 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 2022 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 469,366 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rachit. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Rachits were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Rachit was born before 2012 — so the typical Rachit is around 13 today.

Median birth year
2012
About 13 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
63.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
130
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 63.1% of all recorded uses (82).

Is Rachit 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2018 (11)
Years since peak
7
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#7,492
2018

Spellings of Rachit

Rachit is not the most common spelling — Richie is, with 41.1% against Rachit's 0.75%.

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.

Rachit around the world

Where Rachit 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
    2014–2024
    #4,271
    in 2024

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

Rachit by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#7,492
2018
Peak year
2018
11 that year
First recorded
2003
Last recorded
2022
All-time count
130
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Rachit

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

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Sibling names for Rachit

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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