Raj
Raj is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 20 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 200.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 200388 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1950
- 2,155people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,155 boys have been named Raj in the United States since 1950, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2003, with 88 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2000, and the 2000s alone account for 27%.
By decade
In 2003, its biggest year
Raj was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 2003 were Jacob, Michael, Joshua, Matthew and Andrew. See all of 2003.
Names that rose and fell with Raj
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Marcopeak 2005
- Mathieupeak 2000
- Marcospeak 2001
- Cesarpeak 2004
- Gustavopeak 2000
- Gerardopeak 2000
- Alexandropeak 2004
- Joseluispeak 2000
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.