Rad
- #8,243 for boys in 2025, 9 births
- Peak · boys
- 1963 · 9 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 214since 1948
Rad over time
boys
Rank among boys' names. Rad has never cracked the top 2,000 here.
Hover or use arrow keys to read values by year; click or press Enter to open that year.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #8,243 | 9 |
| 2024 | #6,832 | 12 |
| 2023 | #5,470 | 17 |
| 2022 | #7,262 | 11 |
| 2021 | #6,698 | 12 |
| 2020 | #6,296 | 13 |
| 2019 | #7,643 | 10 |
| 2018 | — | |
| 2017 | #9,696 | 7 |
| 2016 | #9,664 | 7 |
| 2015 | — | |
| 2014 | #9,642 | 7 |
| 2013 | #10,728 | 6 |
| 2012 | #10,770 | 6 |
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| 1994 | #7,770 | 6 |
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| 1989 | #7,905 | 5 |
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| 1987 | #5,459 | 7 |
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| 1985 | #5,147 | 7 |
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| 1977 | #5,845 | 5 |
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| 1975 | #5,464 | 5 |
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| 1971 | #4,907 | 5 |
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| 1968 | #3,107 | 8 |
| 1967 | #3,966 | 5 |
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| 1964 | #3,601 | 6 |
| 1963 | #2,858 | 9 |
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| 1957 | #3,993 | 5 |
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| 1955 | #3,201 | 7 |
| 1954 | #3,452 | 6 |
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| 1952 | #3,373 | 6 |
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| 1948 | #3,668 | 5 |
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First appearance
1948
The first year at least five boys were named Rad! It came in at #3,668, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1948–1951, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Rad is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more boys named Rad in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Rad
Momentum · boys
Falling
- 1,411 spots since 2024 (#6,832 → #8,243)
- 1,947 spots since 2020 (#6,296 → #8,243)
Rise & fade · boys
15 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1948
- Peaked 1963 at #2,858 (9 births)
- Births halved by 1965, 2 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 100,622
- Highest: 1 in 100,622 boys born in 2023 were named Rad (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 189,786 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #2,858 in 1963, was only 1 in 225,675 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2020s
- 34.6% of all boys named Rad (74) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 5 | #3,668 (1948) | #3,668 |
| 1950s | 24 | #3,201 (1955) | #3,505 |
| 1960s | 28 | #2,858 (1963) | #3,383 |
| 1970s | 15 | #4,907 (1971) | #5,405 |
| 1980s | 19 | #5,147 (1985) | #6,170 |
| 1990s | 6 | #7,770 (1994) | #7,770 |
| 2000s | 0 | — | — |
| 2010s | 43 | #7,643 (2019) | #9,691 |
| 2020s | 74 | #5,470 (2023) | #6,800 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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