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Rauf

Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Rauf has been given to 10 babies in the U.S. since 2008. 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 2008, with 5 recorded.

Babies named Rauf, 2022

1 in 677,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Rauf: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Rauf means

Rauf is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Rauf is used in Albanian and Azerbaijani.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 10 boys were recorded with the name Rauf between 2008 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 5 in 2008; its best national rank was #13,866 in 2022.

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 Rauf?

Rauf had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2022
1 in 677,000
5 of 3,385,755 births
Among boys only
1 in 349,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2022
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
469,366 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Rauf 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 2022 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 469,366 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rauf. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Raufs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Rauf was born before 2008 — so the typical Rauf is around 17 today.

Median birth year
2008
About 17 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
50.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
10
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 50.0% of all recorded uses (5).

Is Rauf 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 2008 (5)
Years since peak
17
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#13,866
2022

Spellings of Rauf

Rauf is not the most common spelling — Paul is, with 78.7% against Rauf's <0.01%.

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.

Rauf around the world

Where Rauf 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
    2004–2021
    #4,789
    in 2021
  • South Australia
    1957–1957
    #427
    in 1957

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Rauf 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
#13,866
2022
Peak year
2008
5 that year
First recorded
2008
Last recorded
2022
All-time count
10
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Rauf

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

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Sibling names for Rauf

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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