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Rekha

Girls' name

Line, stripe, streak

Rekha has been given to 212 babies in the U.S. since 1970. 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 17 recorded.

Babies named Rekha, 2013

1 in 608,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Rekha: meaning, origin, and history

Line, stripe, streak

Sanskrit

What Rekha means

Rekha means “line, stripe, streak”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Rekha is used in Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, Assamese, Kannada, Malayalam, Telugu, Tamil and Nepali.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈɾeː.kʰɑː/, /ˈɾe.kʰa/ and /ˈɾeː.kʰa/ for Rekha.

Origin, language, and formation

Rekha is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 212 girls were recorded with the name Rekha between 1970 and 2013. Its highest annual count was 17 in 1979; its best national rank was #4,372 in 1979.

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 Rekha?

Rekha had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2013, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2013
1 in 608,000
6 of 3,645,938 births
Among girls only
1 in 292,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2013
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
421,196 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Rekha 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 2013 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 421,196 children born in 2013 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rekha. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Rekhas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Rekha was born before 1983 — so the typical Rekha is around 42 today.

Median birth year
1983
About 42 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
40.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
29.7%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
212
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 40.1% of all recorded uses (85).

Is Rekha 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 1979 (17)
Years since peak
46
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
37.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,372
1979

Spellings of Rekha

Rekha is not the most common spelling — Rena is, with 16.2% against Rekha'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.

Where Rekha is used

Across 1910–2025, Rekha was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 3,202,555 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 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. Rekha has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Rekha around the world

Where Rekha 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
    1996–2011
    #4,764
    in 2011
  • South Australia
    1987–1987
    #684
    in 1987

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.

Rekha 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
#4,372
1979
Peak year
1979
17 that year
First recorded
1970
Last recorded
2013
All-time count
212
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Rekha

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

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Sibling names for Rekha

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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