Raid
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Raid has been given to 22 babies in the U.S. since 1992. 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 1992, with 6 recorded.
Babies named Raid, 2021
1 in 565,000
Raid 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Raid?
Raid 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 565,000
- 6 of 3,389,958 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 292,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2021
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 391,624 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Raid 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 391,624 children born in 2021 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Raid. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Raids were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Raid was born before 2004 — so the typical Raid is around 21 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 27.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 72.7%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 22
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 27.3% of all recorded uses (6).
Is Raid 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
- —
- 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 1992 (6)
- Years since peak
- 33
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Not enough data
- Too few years
Spellings of Raid
Raid is not the most common spelling — David is, with 72.9% against Raid's <0.01%.
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.
Raid around the world
Where Raid 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 & Wales2004–2021#4,789in 2021
- France1992–2025#5,408in 2025
- South Australia1988–1988#476in 1988
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.
Raid by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Raid
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Raid
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.