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Rahaf

#2,987 in 2025Girls' name

Delicate, fine, thin

Rahaf has been given to 887 babies in the U.S. since 1994. In 2025 it ranked #2,987 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2018, with 73 recorded.

Babies named Rahaf, 2025

1 in 59,200

Rahaf over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Rahaf: meaning, origin, and history

Delicate, fine, thin

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Rahaf means

Rahaf means “delicate, fine, thin”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 887 girls were recorded with the name Rahaf between 1994 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 73 in 2018; its best national rank was #2,453 in 2018.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #3,663 in 2020 to #2,987 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #3,335 in 2015 to #2,987 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 Rahaf?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 59,200
56 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 28,700
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,987
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
41,035 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Rahaf 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 41,035 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rahaf. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Rahafs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Rahaf was born before 2017 — so the typical Rahaf is around 8 today.

Median birth year
2017
About 8 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
51.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
96.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
887
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 51.5% of all recorded uses (457).

Is Rahaf 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
+86
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+676
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+348
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.14×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
76.7%
Peak was 2018 (73)
Years since peak
7
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
25.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,453
2018

Spellings of Rahaf

Rahaf is not the most common spelling — Raya is, with 23.0% against Rahaf's 2.5%.

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 Rahaf is used

Across 2016–2025, Rahaf was most concentrated in Michigan — about 1 in 4,348 girls, against 1 in 20,543 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in 100,000).

123 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Michigan1 in 4,348
  2. 2New York1 in 7,143
  3. 3Louisiana1 in 20,000
  4. 4Illinois1 in 33,333
  5. 5Virginia1 in 33,333
  6. 6California1 in 50,000
  7. 7North Carolina1 in 100,000
  8. 8Texas1 in 100,000

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.

Rahaf around the world

Where Rahaf 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
    2003–2025
    #1,719
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2009–2019
    #765
    in 2019
  • Ireland
    2015–2015
    #660
    in 2015
  • France
    2012–2025
    #3,773
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2000–2024
    #1,542
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2010–2013
    #818
    in 2013

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

Rahaf by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,987
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 676
Best rank ever
#2,453
2018
Peak year
2018
73 that year
First recorded
1994
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
887
Count in 2025
56

Names similar to Rahaf

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

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Sibling names for Rahaf

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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