Rai
#3,825 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Rai has been given to 520 babies in the U.S. since 1993. In 2025 it ranked #3,825 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 36 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 73% boys, 27% girls all-time.
Babies named Rai, 2025
1 in 114,000
Rai 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Rai over time
In 2025, Rai went to 15% girls and 85% 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 Rai?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 114,000
- 29 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 58,900
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #3,825
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 79,239 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Rai sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 79,239 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rai. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Rais were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Rai was born before 2017 — so the typical Rai is around 8 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 40.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 90.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 379
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 40.9% of all recorded uses (155).
Is Rai 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
- +132
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +2,079
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +4,736
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 3.22×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 80.6%
- Peak was 2023 (36)
- Years since peak
- 2
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 29.4% average annual change
Where Rai is used — boys
Across 1910–2025, Rai was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 328,919 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1California1 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. Rai has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Where Rai is used — girls
Across 1910–2025, Rai was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,668,796 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
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. Rai has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Rai around the world
Where Rai 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 & Wales1999–2025#2,440in 2025
- France2008–2008#3,353in 2008
- Canada2021–2024#2,328in 2024
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.
Rai by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Rai
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Rai
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.