boys:
683 births since 1965
#3904 (15th percentile)
overall:
683 births since 1965
#7056 (9th percentile)
The name Rajesh is the #7,056 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 683 recorded births since 1965. This represents the 8.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 8.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,904 (14.8% percentile) for all time with 683 births since 1965.
Rajesh first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1965 (first recorded for boys in 1965). Birth data for Rajesh is available in 40 out of the 49 years between 1965 and 2013. 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, Rajesh reached its peak popularity in 1976, achieving the 5.8% percentile (ranked #618) with 26 births per million. The name was most common in 1976, with 26 births per million (ranked 5.8% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2013.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Rajesh".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Rajesh. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 54.1% confident that Rajesh is pronounced as RAH-jehsh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is ruh-JEHSH, at 27.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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