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Rakhi

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Protection, through राखी

Rakhi has been given to 81 babies in the U.S. since 1975. 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 11 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 67% girls, 33% boys all-time.

Babies named Rakhi, 2015

1 in 617,000

Rakhi over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Rakhi over time

In 2025, Rakhi went to 0% girls and 100% boys.

19752025

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.

Rakhi: meaning, origin, and history

Protection, through राखी

Hindi

What Rakhi means

Rakhi belongs to the name family reached through Rakhi → राखी. Its meaning is “protection”.

Origin, language, and formation

Rakhi is used in English. Its origins include Hindi.

Rakhi comes through Hindi राखी.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include राखी.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 54 girls were recorded with the name Rakhi between 1975 and 2015. Its highest annual count was 11 in 1979; its best national rank was #6,055 in 1979.

In the United States, 27 boys were recorded with the name Rakhi between 2015 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 6 in 2023; its best national rank was #11,681 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #13,591 in 2020 to #11,681 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #13,574 in 2015 to #11,681 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 Rakhi?

Rakhi had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2015, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2015
1 in 617,000
6 of 3,701,574 births
Among girls only
1 in 297,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2015
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
427,624 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Rakhi 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 2015 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 427,624 children born in 2015 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rakhi. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Rakhis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Rakhi was born before 1980 — so the typical Rakhi is around 45 today.

Median birth year
1980
About 45 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
50.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
11.1%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
54
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 50.0% of all recorded uses (27).

Is Rakhi 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
—
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 (11)
Years since peak
46
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#6,055
1979

Spellings of Rakhi

Rakhi is not the most common spelling — Randi is, with 48.7% against Rakhi's 0.09%.

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.

Rakhi around the world

Where Rakhi 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
    1996–2010
    #5,707
    in 2010

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

Rakhi by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#6,055
1979
Peak year
1979
11 that year
First recorded
1975
Last recorded
2015
All-time count
54
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#11,681
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,910
Best rank ever
#11,681
2025
Peak year
2023
6 that year
First recorded
2015
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
27
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Rakhi

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

RakebRakyaRakshaSakhiRakellRakiahRakyahRakeyaRakitaRakhiaRakiraMakhiRakheeRakyiaRakelRakayaMekhiRakylaRakiaRakeiaRakeshiaRakeshaRakelleRakiyah

Sibling names for Rakhi

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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