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Raheem vs Rahzi

American parents have registered 8,530 Raheems since 1880, against 56 Rahzis. Raheem is still ahead, with 125 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Raheem against Rahzi, 1880 to 2025 0 150 300 450 600 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Raheem Rahzi

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Raheem has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1964 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2024, when Raheem had 138 and Rahzi had 34.

Side by side

  Raheem Rahzi
Total US births 8,53056
Most in one year 55634
Babies in 2025 12522
Estimated living today 8,30060
Median age today 281
Peak year 19932024
Best rank 417th boys3,394th boys
Rank in 2025 1,436th4,539th
First recorded 19642024
Girls / boys 6 / 8,5240 / 56

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Raheems alive today are over 28; half the Rahzis are over 1. That is 27 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Raheem and Rahzi.