Raheel
UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Raheel has been given to 342 babies in the U.S. since 1982. 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 2009, with 12 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 75% boys, 25% girls all-time.
Babies named Raheel, 2021
1 in 678,000
Raheel over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Raheel over time
In 2025, Raheel went to 100% girls and 0% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Raheel?
Raheel had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2021, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2021
- 1 in 678,000
- 5 of 3,389,958 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 350,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2021
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 469,949 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Raheel sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2021 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 469,949 children born in 2021 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Raheel. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Raheels were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Raheel was born before 1999 — so the typical Raheel is around 26 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 30.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 57.4%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 256
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 30.1% of all recorded uses (77).
Is Raheel 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
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 2009 (12)
- Years since peak
- 16
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 38.4% average annual change
Spellings of Raheel
Raheel is not the most common spelling — Rafael is, with 53.9% against Raheel's 0.15%.
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.
Raheel around the world
Where Raheel 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 & Wales1996–2025#5,137in 2025
- France2025–2025#5,972in 2025
- Canada2012–2020#2,945in 2020
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Raheel by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Raheel
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Raheel
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.