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Rajeev

Boys' name

Alternate transcription of Rajiv

Rajeev has been given to 504 babies in the U.S. since 1967. 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 1979, with 26 recorded.

Babies named Rajeev, 2013

1 in 456,000

Rajeev over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Rajeev: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Rajiv

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Rajeev means

Rajeev is a alternate transcription of Rajiv.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Rajeev is used in Hindi, Marathi, Malayalam, Tamil and Nepali.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Rajeev → Rajiv → राजीव. The family’s meaning is “king”, recorded in Sanskrit with the source elements rā́j.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Rajiv.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 504 boys were recorded with the name Rajeev between 1967 and 2013. Its highest annual count was 26 in 1979; its best national rank was #2,033 in 1979.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Rajeev?

Rajeev had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2013, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2013
1 in 456,000
8 of 3,645,938 births
Among boys only
1 in 236,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2013
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
315,898 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Rajeev sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2013 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 315,898 children born in 2013 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rajeev. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Rajeevs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Rajeev was born before 1983 — so the typical Rajeev is around 42 today.

Median birth year
1983
About 42 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
32.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
40.9%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
504
People you could plausibly meet
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1970s — 32.5% of all recorded uses (164).

Is Rajeev 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
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1979 (26)
Years since peak
46
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
37.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,033
1979

Spellings of Rajeev

Rajeev is not the most common spelling — Raheem is, with 53.4% against Rajeev's 3.2%.

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 Rajeev is used

Across 1910–2025, Rajeev was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 532,954 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 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. Rajeev has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Rajeev around the world

Where Rajeev 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
    1996–2002
    #2,636
    in 2002
  • France
    2022–2022
    #6,771
    in 2022
  • South Australia
    1970–1984
    #455
    in 1984

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.

Rajeev by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#2,033
1979
Peak year
1979
26 that year
First recorded
1967
Last recorded
2013
All-time count
504
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Rajeev

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

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Sibling names for Rajeev

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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