Rajah
#10,429 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Rajah has been given to 618 babies in the U.S. since 1951. In 2025 it ranked #10,429 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1994, with 24 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 72% boys, 28% girls all-time.
Babies named Rajah, 2025
1 in 474,000
Rajah 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Rajah over time
In 2025, Rajah went to 0% girls and 100% 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 Rajah?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 474,000
- 7 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 244,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #10,429
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 328,272 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Rajah 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 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rajah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Rajahs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Rajah was born before 2006 — so the typical Rajah is around 19 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 27.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 61.2%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 443
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 27.8% of all recorded uses (123).
Is Rajah 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
- −1,614
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −5,027
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +1,327
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.17×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 29.2%
- Peak was 1994 (24)
- Years since peak
- 31
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 32.1% average annual change
Spellings of Rajah
Rajah is not the most common spelling — Ralph is, with 92.9% against Rajah's 0.10%.
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.
Rajah around the world
Where Rajah 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 & Wales1996–1999#2,425in 1999
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.
Rajah by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Rajah
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Rajah
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.