Raghav

boys:

1.2k births since 1990

#3428 (25th percentile)

overall:

1.2k births since 1990

#6563 (15th percentile)

Popularity Trends

The name Raghav is the #6,563 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,177 recorded births since 1990. This represents the 15.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 15.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,428 (25.2% percentile) for all time with 1,177 births since 1990.

Raghav first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1990 (first recorded for boys in 1990). Birth data for Raghav is available in 33 out of the 34 years between 1990 and 2023. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.

For boys, Raghav reached its peak popularity in 2005, achieving the 7.1% percentile (ranked #811) with 31 births per million. The name was most common in 2015, with 32 births per million (ranked 6.7% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Raghav ranks #869 for boys (4.6% percentile) with 26 births per million, which is 79.5% of its peak share of births.

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Raghav".

1990 2023 19902023

Key Statistics

Total Births
1,177
Peak Births
67
Peak Year
2005
First Recorded
1990
Peak Percentile
7.1%
Current Percentile
4.6%
Peak Rank
#811
Current Rank
#869
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Raghav

Our model has identified 10 different pronunciations for the name Raghav. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.

Our model is 44.2% confident that Raghav is pronounced as RAH-guhv, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is RUH-guhv, at 11.6% confidence, with 2 syllables.

RAH-guhv (2 syllables)
44.2% confidence
R AA1 G AH0 V
RUH-guhv (2 syllables)
11.6% confidence
R AH1 G AH0 V
ruhg-HAHV (2 syllables)
7.0% confidence
R AH0 G HH AA1 V
ruhg-HAV (2 syllables)
7.0% confidence
R AH0 G HH AE1 V
RAHG-hahv (2 syllables)
7.0% confidence
R AA1 G HH AA0 V
ruhg-HUHV (2 syllables)
4.7% confidence
R AH0 G HH AH1 V
RUHG-hav (2 syllables)
4.7% confidence
R AH1 G HH AE0 V
RUHG-huhv (2 syllables)
4.7% confidence
R AH1 G HH AH0 V
RAHG-huhv (2 syllables)
4.7% confidence
R AA1 G HH AH0 V
RA-guhv (2 syllables)
4.7% confidence
R AE1 G AH0 V

Possible Additional Pronunciations

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About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like R AA1 G AH0 V) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.

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