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Rehana

Girls' name

Form of Rayhana

Rehana has been given to 325 babies in the U.S. since 1973. 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 2006, with 16 recorded.

Babies named Rehana, 2022

1 in 484,000

Rehana over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Rehana: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Rayhana

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Rehana means

Rehana is a form of Rayhana.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Rehana is used in Urdu and Bengali.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Rehana → Rayhana. The family’s meaning is “basil”, recorded in the naming reference for Rayhana.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Rayhana.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 325 girls were recorded with the name Rehana between 1973 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 16 in 2006; its best national rank was #6,789 in 1978.

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.

How common is Rehana?

Rehana 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 484,000
7 of 3,385,755 births
Among girls only
1 in 234,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2022
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
335,262 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Rehana 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 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 335,262 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rehana. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Rehanas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Rehana was born before 2002 — so the typical Rehana is around 23 today.

Median birth year
2002
About 23 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
26.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
60.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
325
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 26.2% of all recorded uses (85).

Is Rehana 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
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2006 (16)
Years since peak
19
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#6,789
1978

Spellings of Rehana

Rehana is not the most common spelling — Regina is, with 37.5% against Rehana's 0.07%.

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 Rehana is used

Across 1910–2025, Rehana was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,501,280 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Rehana has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Rehana around the world

Where Rehana 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
    1996–2025
    #4,867
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1977–1985
    #565
    in 1985
  • France
    1983–2024
    #5,666
    in 2024
  • Canada
    1992–2018
    #3,384
    in 2018

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Rehana 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
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Best rank ever
#6,789
1978
Peak year
2006
16 that year
First recorded
1973
Last recorded
2022
All-time count
325
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Rehana

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

RehmatRehemaRehamReyanaAylanaZiyanaVihanaDeyanaMakanaJalanaAhaanaZayanaKhianaRiyanaKalanaAhlanaIshanaNiyanaLaianaSiyanaLeyanaKaianaJaianaAytana

Sibling names for Rehana

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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