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Rachna

Girls' name

Work, creation

Rachna has been given to 213 babies in the U.S. since 1976. 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 1979, with 12 recorded.

Babies named Rachna, 2011

1 in 523,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Rachna: meaning, origin, and history

Work, creation

Sanskrit

What Rachna means

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

Origin, language, and formation

Rachna is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 213 girls were recorded with the name Rachna between 1976 and 2011. Its highest annual count was 12 in 1979; its best national rank was #5,483 in 1976.

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 Rachna?

Rachna had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2011, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2011
1 in 523,000
7 of 3,657,935 births
Among girls only
1 in 251,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2011
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
362,214 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Rachna 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 2011 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 362,214 children born in 2011 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rachna. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Rachnas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Rachna was born before 1990 — so the typical Rachna is around 35 today.

Median birth year
1990
About 35 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
35.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
61.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
213
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 35.2% of all recorded uses (75).

Is Rachna 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 1979 (12)
Years since peak
46
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
27.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,483
1976

Spellings of Rachna

Rachna is not the most common spelling — Rachel is, with 81.7% against Rachna's 0.03%.

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.

Rachna around the world

Where Rachna 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
    1997–2004
    #4,598
    in 2004
  • France
    2013–2021
    #4,267
    in 2021
  • South Australia
    1997–1997
    #681
    in 1997

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.

Rachna 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
#5,483
1976
Peak year
1979
12 that year
First recorded
1976
Last recorded
2011
All-time count
213
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Rachna

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

LiahnaLeahnaRachylYashnaSokhnaRachanaRacineMeghnaAashnaEliahnaJahnaIyahnaAviahnaLahnaAlahnaRacheRachalAshnaJuliahnaKiahnaAyahnaTiahnaAleighnaRachiel

Sibling names for Rachna

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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