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Rohit

Boys' name

Red, through রোহিত

Rohit has been given to 1,898 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 2001, with 109 recorded.

Babies named Rohit, 2024

1 in 418,000

Rohit over time, 1880–2025

Boys
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Rohit: meaning, origin, and history

Red, through রোহিত

Sanskrit

What Rohit means

Rohit belongs to the name family reached through Rohit → রোহিত → रोहित. Its meaning is “red”.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Transliteration of Hindi रोहित (rohit), Bengali রোহিত (rōhito), etc.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Rohit (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Rohit is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

Rohit comes through Hindi रोहित and Bengali রোহিত.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include र, রোহিত and रोहित.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,898 boys were recorded with the name Rohit between 1970 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 109 in 2001; its best national rank was #1,225 in 2001.

How common is Rohit?

Rohit had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 418,000
8 of 3,342,801 births
Among boys only
1 in 215,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
289,633 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Rohit 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 2024 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 289,633 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rohit. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Rohits were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Rohit was born before 2000 — so the typical Rohit is around 25 today.

Median birth year
2000
About 25 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
42.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
54.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,898
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 42.0% of all recorded uses (797).

Is Rohit 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
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2001 (109)
Years since peak
24
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,225
2001

Spellings of Rohit

Rohit is not the most common spelling — Robin is, with 58.5% against Rohit's 2.4%.

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 Rohit is used

Across 1910–2025, Rohit was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 33,333 boys, against 1 in 108,916 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 33,333
  2. 2California1 in 50,000
  3. 3Maryland1 in 100,000
  4. 4Michigan1 in 100,000
  5. 5New York1 in 100,000
  6. 6Florida1 in —
  7. 7Illinois1 in —
  8. 8Massachusetts1 in —

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

Rohit around the world

Where Rohit 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
    1996–2022
    #4,790
    in 2022
  • Scotland
    2007–2007
    #595
    in 2007
  • France
    1990–2005
    #4,404
    in 2005
  • Canada
    1991–2017
    #2,569
    in 2017
  • South Australia
    1997–2011
    #784
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Rohit 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
#1,225
2001
Peak year
2001
109 that year
First recorded
1970
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
1,898
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Rohit

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

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Sibling names for Rohit

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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