Raksha
#16,710 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Raksha has been given to 143 babies in the U.S. since 1994. In 2025 it ranked #16,710 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2002, with 11 recorded.
Babies named Raksha, 2025
1 in 663,000
Raksha 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Raksha?
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
- #16,710
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 459,581 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Raksha 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Raksha. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Rakshas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Raksha was born before 2012 — so the typical Raksha is around 13 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 44.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 93.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 143
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 44.1% of all recorded uses (63).
Is Raksha 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −3,556
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −725
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.83×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 45.5%
- Peak was 2002 (11)
- Years since peak
- 23
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 24.4% average annual change
Spellings of Raksha
Raksha is not the most common spelling — Marsha is, with 36.4% against Raksha'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.
Raksha around the world
Where Raksha 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 & Wales1996–2020#3,899in 2020
- Canada2020–2020#3,144in 2020
- South Australia1988–2011#840in 2011
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Raksha by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Raksha
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Raksha
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.