Raheel

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Raheel: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Raheel: Recorded every year since 1996, its highest recorded position is #780, and it stood at #4,270 in 2024.

1registrar recorded it
32times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#780highest recorded position
8groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 2016–2023

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2016	#4763
2021	#5581
2023	#4056

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

Official data for England and Wales, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #1104 among boys in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Highest recorded1996–2024
Highest recorded position: #780 among boys in England and Wales, in 1998 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #4270 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Boys

Raheel appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 330 births with the name.

Raheel across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Raheel's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#1104 (1996)	#780 (1998)	#4270 (2024)	29 of 29	330 (1996–2024)	22 (2010)
England and Wales · Girls	#4763 (2016)	#4056 (2023)	#4056 (2023)	3 of 8	12 (2016–2023)	5 (2023)

Raheel by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Raheel in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	52	4 of 10	13
2000s	118	10 of 10	12
2010sbusiest	130	10 of 10	13
2020s	30	5 of 10	6

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 13 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Raheel appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #780 in England and Wales in 1998.

Raheel's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	male	#4270	4	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#4056	5	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#2813	7	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#4001	4	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#5581	3	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#2493	8	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#2682	7	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#2488	8	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#3011	6	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#2512	8	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#4763	4	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#1804	13	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#1442	17	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#1486	16	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#2055	10	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#1962	11	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#1303	19	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#1171	22	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#1649	13	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#1596	13	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#1440	15	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#1892	9	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#1617	11	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#1347	13	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#1410	11	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#1519	9	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#1286	11	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#1096	13	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#1199	11	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#780	20	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#1345	9	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#1104	12	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 1 registrar between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #780, first reached in 1998.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 22 births, registered in England and Wales in 2010.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

4decades with a ranked yearRecorded in 4 decades →
29 yearslongest unbroken run of ranked years20 to 29 unbroken years →
1unbroken stretch — never absent from the recordUnbroken since it first appeared →
#4,270position in 2024, its most recent recorded year
22births registered in its largest year, 2010Under 25 births →

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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A comparable record

Records held by the same 1 registrar, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Sohaib · #780, 29y
Tahir · #780, 29y
Buster · #781, 29y
Jevon · #781, 26y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Sohaib · #780, 29y
Tahir · #780, 29y
Buster · #781, 29y
Emiliano · #779, 21y

Raheel was ranked #780 in England and Wales · Boys in 1998. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Raheel and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Raheel without appearing here.

Raheel moved ahead of

Garry Compare
In 2022 they stood at #4001 and #3048 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2023 that had become #2813 and #4991.
Graham Compare
In 2023 they stood at #2813 and #1533 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #4270 and #5119.
Graeme Compare
In 1997 they stood at #1345 and #874 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1998 that had become #780 and #1367.
Glenn Compare
In 2017 they stood at #2512 and #2512 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2018 that had become #3011 and #3412.

Moved ahead of Raheel

Matheo Compare
In 2021 they stood at #2493 and #3017 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2022 that had become #4001 and #2018.
Hans Compare
In 2021 they stood at #2493 and #3017 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2022 that had become #4001 and #2320.
Braxton Compare
In 2011 they stood at #1303 and #1398 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2012 that had become #1962 and #569.
Fredrik Compare
In 2016 they stood at #1804 and #2027 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2017 that had become #2512 and #1470.

Moved the opposite way to Raheel

Albie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Raheel went from #1104 to #4270 while Albie went from #853 to #19.
Alfie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Raheel went from #1104 to #4270 while Alfie went from #119 to #16.
Alfred Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Raheel went from #1104 to #4270 while Alfred went from #218 to #81.
Archie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Raheel went from #1104 to #4270 while Archie went from #192 to #10.

Moved the same way as Raheel

Aaron Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Raheel went from #1104 to #4270 and Aaron from #33 to #154.
Adam Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Raheel went from #1104 to #4270 and Adam from #16 to #35.
Alan Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Raheel went from #1104 to #4270 and Alan from #163 to #592.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Raheel went from #1104 to #4270 and Alex from #43 to #171.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #780 in England and Wales in 1998. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Raheel

Raheel at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Raheel across 2 official records

Raheel by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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Raheel at a glance

Raheel across 2 official records

Raheel by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Raheel

Raheel and the names beside it

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