Rahul
#8,910 for boys in 2025, 8 births
- Peak · boys
- 2000 · 196 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 3,332since 1966
Rahul over time
Rank among boys' names. Rahul has never cracked the top 800 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #8,910 | 8 |
| 2024 | #10,938 | 6 |
| 2023 | #7,738 | 10 |
| 2022 | #7,768 | 10 |
| 2021 | #7,587 | 10 |
| 2020 | #9,554 | 7 |
| 2019 | #9,756 | 7 |
| 2018 | #6,345 | 13 |
| 2017 | #6,060 | 14 |
| 2016 | #5,555 | 16 |
| 2015 | #5,999 | 14 |
| 2014 | #3,532 | 30 |
| 2013 | #3,582 | 29 |
| 2012 | #3,059 | 37 |
| 2011 | #2,852 | 41 |
| 2010 | #2,262 | 57 |
| 2009 | #2,143 | 63 |
| 2008 | #1,775 | 84 |
| 2007 | #1,650 | 93 |
| 2006 | #1,460 | 105 |
| 2005 | #1,233 | 128 |
| 2004 | #995 | 166 |
| 2003 | #982 | 162 |
| 2002 | #939 | 171 |
| 2001 | #858 | 187 |
| 2000 | #818 | 196 |
| 1999 | #896 | 168 |
| 1998 | #970 | 142 |
| 1997 | #1,027 | 124 |
| 1996 | #1,292 | 85 |
| 1995 | #1,221 | 90 |
| 1994 | #1,153 | 97 |
| 1993 | #1,279 | 79 |
| 1992 | #1,429 | 64 |
| 1991 | #1,216 | 83 |
| 1990 | #1,755 | 45 |
| 1989 | #1,658 | 47 |
| 1988 | #1,482 | 51 |
| 1987 | #1,259 | 60 |
| 1986 | #1,363 | 52 |
| 1985 | #1,354 | 51 |
| 1984 | #1,507 | 41 |
| 1983 | #1,594 | 37 |
| 1982 | #1,596 | 38 |
| 1981 | #1,996 | 27 |
| 1980 | #1,569 | 38 |
| 1979 | #2,236 | 22 |
| 1978 | #1,452 | 41 |
| 1977 | #1,823 | 28 |
| 1976 | #1,932 | 25 |
| 1975 | #1,429 | 38 |
| 1974 | #1,659 | 29 |
| 1973 | #2,216 | 18 |
| 1972 | #3,344 | 9 |
| 1971 | #2,366 | 16 |
| 1970 | #3,071 | 10 |
| 1969 | #3,314 | 8 |
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| 1966 | #3,948 | 5 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Rahul! It came in at #3,948, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1966–1968, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Rahul is popular in 1989
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- California#1,215 · 1 in 24,423
- Texas#1,360 · 1 in 29,621
Best ever in a state: #216 in New Jersey, 1999.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| California | #1,215 | 11 | 1 in 24,423 |
| Texas | #1,360 | 5 | 1 in 29,621 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Rahul
- 2,028 spots since 2024 (#10,938 → #8,910)
- 644 spots since 2020 (#9,554 → #8,910)
- 2,911 spots since 2015 (#5,999 → #8,910)
- Biggest jump: 78 spots in 2000 (#896 → #818)
- Biggest drop: 238 spots in 2005 (#995 → #1,233)
- Debuted 1966
- Peaked 2000 at #818 (196 births)
- Births halved by 2007, 7 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 7 yrs · run 1998–2004
- Highest: 1 in 10,020 boys born in 2000 were named Rahul (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 213,509 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 40.7% of all boys named Rahul (1,355) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 13 | #3,314 (1969) | #3,631 |
| 1970s | 236 | #1,429 (1975) | #2,153 |
| 1980s | 442 | #1,259 (1987) | #1,538 |
| 1990s | 977 | #896 (1999) | #1,224 |
| 2000s | 1,355 | #818 (2000) | #1,285 |
| 2010s | 258 | #2,262 (2010) | #4,900 |
| 2020s | 51 | #7,587 (2021) | #8,749 |
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.
Rahul in 1989
Top boys' names in 1989
More about 1989
boys
2,000,928 boys got a published name in 1989; 1 in 42,573 of them was named Rahul, which outranked 82.0% of the 9,232 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 20.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,641Thad48
- #1,641Veronica48
- #1,641Vishal48
- #1,658Rahul47
- #1,658Ammon47
- #1,658Angus47
- #1,658Boris47
- #1,678Aarron46
- #1,678Ajay46
- #1,678Ameer46
Tied with 19 names at #1,658; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.