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Raghav

#1,835 in 2025Boys' name

From Sanskrit राघव; literal meaning unconfirmed

Raghav has been given to 1,335 babies in the U.S. since 1990. In 2025 it ranked #1,835 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 87 recorded.

Babies named Raghav, 2025

1 in 38,100

Raghav over time, 1880–2025

Boys
025507510018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Raghav: meaning, origin, and history

From Sanskrit राघव; literal meaning unconfirmed

Sanskrit

What Raghav means

Raghav is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Raghav is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

Raghav comes through Sanskrit राघव.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,335 boys were recorded with the name Raghav between 1990 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 87 in 2025; its best national rank was #1,835 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #4,816 in 2020 to #1,835 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,128 in 2015 to #1,835 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.

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How common is Raghav?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 38,100
87 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 19,600
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,835
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
26,414 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Raghav 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 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 5001%

Put another way: gather 26,414 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Raghav. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Raghavs were born

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

Median birth year
2012
About 13 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
36.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
90.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,335
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 36.6% of all recorded uses (488).

Is Raghav 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
+276
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+2,981
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+293
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.32×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (87)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,835
2025

Spellings of Raghav

Raghav is not the most common spelling — Rashad is, with 78.1% against Raghav's 6.4%.

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 Raghav is used

Across 1910–2025, Raghav was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 50,000 boys, against 1 in 149,409 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 50,000
  2. 2New Jersey1 in 50,000
  3. 3Texas1 in 100,000
  4. 4Georgia1 in —
  5. 5Illinois1 in —
  6. 6Massachusetts1 in —
  7. 7Michigan1 in —
  8. 8New York1 in —

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

Raghav around the world

Where Raghav 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
    1996–2025
    #1,066
    in 2025
  • France
    2018–2018
    #6,777
    in 2018
  • Canada
    1994–2024
    #949
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2013–2013
    #754
    in 2013

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.

Raghav by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,835
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 2,981
Best rank ever
#1,835
2025
Peak year
2025
87 that year
First recorded
1990
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,335
Count in 2025
87

Names similar to Raghav

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

RagnarKeshavMadhavAadhavVaibhavRishavVibhavRaganKrishavRageRaghibSambhavPrabhavRaaghavMaadhavRageneRidhavRagenAdhavRithavKridhavUdbhavRagavNishav

Sibling names for Raghav

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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