Rakeb

#16,709 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning not yet documented

Rakeb has been given to 179 babies in the U.S. since 2005. In 2025 it ranked #16,709 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2020, with 19 recorded.

Babies named Rakeb, 2025

1 in 663,000

Rakeb over time, 1880–2025

Girls
0510152018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 321,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#16,709
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Rakeb sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rakeb. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Rakebs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Rakeb was born before 2016 — so the typical Rakeb is around 9 today.

Median birth year
2016
About 9 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
64.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
179
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 64.2% of all recorded uses (115).

Is Rakeb 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
+423
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−10,438
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−3,965
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.63×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
26.3%
Peak was 2020 (19)
Years since peak
5
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
52.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#6,271
2020

Spellings of Rakeb

Rakeb is not the most common spelling — Raven is, with 53.7% against Rakeb's 0.21%.

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.

Rakeb around the world

Where Rakeb 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
    2001–2020
    #5,493
    in 2020

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Rakeb by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#16,709
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 10,438
Best rank ever
#6,271
2020
Peak year
2020
19 that year
First recorded
2005
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
179
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Rakeb

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

Sibling names for Rakeb

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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