Rahul
Rahul is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 6 births. Its best rank was 818th, in 2000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 60.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 2000196 births
- Best rank
- #818in 2000
- Since 1966
- 3,324people given the name
The story in the numbers
3,324 boys have been named Rahul in the United States since 1966, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2000, with 196 births.
The name has all but left use: 6 births in 2024, against 196 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1999, and the 2000s alone account for 41%. It has spent 7 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
In 2000, its biggest year
Rahul was the 818th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2000 were Jacob, Michael, Matthew, Joshua and Christopher. See all of 2000.
Names that rose and fell with Rahul
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Rohitpeak 2001
- Tyreesepeak 1999
- Marcanthonypeak 2000
- Osbaldopeak 2002
- Marcoantoniopeak 2001
- Jarinpeak 2001
- Colbypeak 2001
- Nicklaspeak 2002
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.