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Rahma vs Rahzi

American parents have registered 1,532 Rahmas since 1880, against 56 Rahzis. Rahma is still ahead, with 82 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Rahma against Rahzi, 1880 to 2025 0 25 50 75 100 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Rahma 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

Rahma has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1990 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2024, when Rahma had 83 and Rahzi had 34.

Side by side

  Rahma Rahzi
Total US births 1,53256
Most in one year 9734
Babies in 2025 8222
Estimated living today 1,50060
Median age today 91
Peak year 20162024
Best rank 2,033rd girls3,394th boys
Rank in 2025 2,239th4,539th
First recorded 19902024
Girls / boys 1,532 / 00 / 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 Rahmas alive today are over 9; half the Rahzis are over 1. That is 8 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: Rahma and Rahzi.