girls:
175 births since 1991
#5541 (3rd percentile)
boys:
426 births since 1951
#4160 (9th percentile)
overall:
601 births since 1951
#7138 (8th percentile)
The name Rajah is the #7,138 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 601 recorded births since 1951. This represents the 7.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 7.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,160 (9.2% percentile) for all time with 426 births since 1951. For girls, it ranks #5,541 (3.0% percentile) for all time with 175 births since 1991.
Rajah first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1951 (1951 for boys and 1991 for girls). Birth data for Rajah is available in 46 out of the 73 years between 1951 and 2023 (45 years for boys and 20 years for girls). 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.
The name Rajah has been given predominantly to boys, with 70.9% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Rajah were boys.
For boys, Rajah reached its peak popularity in 1994, achieving the 2.5% percentile (ranked #757) with 12 births per million. The name was most common in 1994, with 12 births per million (ranked 2.5% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2020, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Rajah ranks #901 for boys (1.1% percentile) with 8 births per million, which is 69.6% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Rajah reached its peak popularity in 1994, achieving the 1.8% percentile (ranked #830) with 10 births per million. The name was most common in 1994, with 10 births per million (ranked 1.8% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Rajah".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Rajah. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Rajah is pronounced as RAH-juh, which has 2 syllables.
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