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Raekwon

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Raekwon is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 13 births. Its best rank was 483rd, in 1996.

Rank in 2024
outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024
130.00% of boys
Peak year
1996445 births
Best rank
#483in 1996
Since 1994
2,278people given the name
Babies named Raekwon, by year of birthboys
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The story in the numbers

2,278 boys have been named Raekwon in the United States since 1994, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1996, with 445 births.

The name has all but left use: 13 births in 2024, against 445 at the peak.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1998, and the 1990s alone account for 66%. It has spent 5 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Rank among boys, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
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By decade

Decadeboys named Raekwon
1990s1,498
2000s568
2010s118
2020s94

In 1996, its biggest year

Raekwon was the 483rd most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1996 were Michael, Matthew, Jacob, Christopher and Joshua. See all of 1996.

Names that rose and fell with Raekwon

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

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.