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Rakan

#1,900 in 2025Boys' name

Steadfast, strong

Rakan has been given to 938 babies in the U.S. since 1981. In 2025 it ranked #1,900 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 83 recorded.

Babies named Rakan, 2025

1 in 39,900

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Rakan: meaning, origin, and history

Steadfast, strong

Arabic

What Rakan means

Rakan means “steadfast, strong”, associated with راكان.

Origin, language, and formation

Rakan is used in English. Its origins include Arabic.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 938 boys were recorded with the name Rakan between 1981 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 83 in 2025; its best national rank was #1,900 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #3,629 in 2020 to #1,900 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #3,346 in 2015 to #1,900 in 2025.

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 Rakan?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 39,900
83 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 20,600
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,900
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
27,687 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Rakan 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 2025 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 5001%

Put another way: gather 27,687 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rakan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Rakans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Rakan was born before 2017 — so the typical Rakan is around 8 today.

Median birth year
2017
About 8 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
39.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
87.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
938
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 39.1% of all recorded uses (367).

Is Rakan 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
+759
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,729
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,446
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.44×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (83)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,900
2025

Spellings of Rakan

Rakan is not the most common spelling — Ryan is, with 52.7% against Rakan's 0.05%.

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 Rakan is used

Across 2016–2025, Rakan was most concentrated in Michigan — about 1 in 7,143 boys, against 1 in 31,942 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

014 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Michigan1 in 7,143
  2. 2New York1 in 11,111
  3. 3Alabama1 in 50,000
  4. 4California1 in 50,000
  5. 5North Carolina1 in 50,000
  6. 6Florida1 in 100,000
  7. 7Ohio1 in 100,000
  8. 8Texas1 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.

Rakan around the world

Where Rakan 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
    2005–2025
    #1,705
    in 2025
  • France
    2012–2025
    #1,546
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2002–2024
    #1,614
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2012–2013
    #754
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Rakan by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,900
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,729
Best rank ever
#1,900
2025
Peak year
2025
83 that year
First recorded
1981
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
938
Count in 2025
83

Names similar to Rakan

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

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Sibling names for Rakan

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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