Rahil

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Rahil: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #1,078 in 2001, and it stood at #5,891 in 2024.

1registrar recorded it
34times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#1078highest recorded position
10groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 2013–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2013	#5742
2015	#5730
2021	#5581
2022	#4645
2023	#2689
2024	#5891

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

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2023.

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

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #1765 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 recorded1996–2023
Highest recorded position: #1078 among boys in England and Wales, in 2001 (recorded 1996–2023).
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #5891 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Rahil appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 28 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 226 births with the name.

Rahil 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.

Rahil'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	#1765 (1996)	#1078 (2001)	#4107 (2023)	28 of 28	226 (1996–2023)	14 (2001)
England and Wales · Girls	#5742 (2013)	#2689 (2023)	#5891 (2024)	6 of 12	25 (2013–2024)	9 (2023)

Rahil 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 Rahil in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	33	4 of 10	8
2000sbusiest	97	10 of 10	10
2010s	82	10 of 10	8
2020s	14	4 of 10	4

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 10 births a year.

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

Rahil 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: #1078 in England and Wales in 2001.

Rahil'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	female	#5891	3	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#2689	9	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#4107	4	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#4645	4	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#4789	3	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#5581	3	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#3990	4	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#4608	3	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#3411	5	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#2693	7	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#1812	13	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#2804	7	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#5730	3	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#2483	8	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#2248	9	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#5742	3	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#2216	9	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#3987	4	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#2390	8	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#1801	12	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#1981	10	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#1706	12	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#3095	5	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#2087	8	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#1617	11	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#1410	12	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#2470	5	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#1322	11	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#1078	14	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#1425	9	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#1383	9	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#1110	12	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#1761	6	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#1765	6	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 #1,078, first reached in 2001.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 14 births, registered in England and Wales in 2001.

1 registrar publishes it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

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.

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.

Rahel · #342, 41y
Rahela · #663, 25y
Rahim · #553, 30y
Rahima · #764, 28y

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.

Abhay · #1078, 24y
Boaz · #1078, 25y
Khizar · #1078, 29y
Rahat · #1078, 24y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Abhay · #1078, 24y
Boaz · #1078, 25y
Khizar · #1078, 29y
Rahat · #1078, 24y

Rahil 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 Rahil without appearing here.

Rahil moved ahead of

Kim Compare
In 2007 they stood at #3095 and #2435 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2008 that had become #1706 and #3687.
Ashleigh Compare
In 2008 they stood at #3095 and #3095 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2009 that had become #1981 and #3227.
Tayla Compare
In 2007 they stood at #3095 and #3095 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2008 that had become #1706 and #2775.
Garry Compare
In 2022 they stood at #4789 and #3048 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2023 that had become #4107 and #4991.

Moved ahead of Rahil

Arne Compare
In 2019 they stood at #3411 and #3937 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2020 that had become #4608 and #2960.
Tor Compare
In 2019 they stood at #3411 and #3937 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2020 that had become #4608 and #2960.
Hudson Compare
In 2002 they stood at #1322 and #2005 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2003 that had become #2470 and #1092.
Madison Compare
In 2021 they stood at #2693 and #4749 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2022 that had become #4789 and #3449.

Moved the opposite way to Rahil

Albie Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Boys, Rahil went from #1765 to #4107 while Albie went from #853 to #22.
Alfie Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Boys, Rahil went from #1765 to #4107 while Alfie went from #119 to #16.
Alfred Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Boys, Rahil went from #1765 to #4107 while Alfred went from #218 to #76.
Archie Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Boys, Rahil went from #1765 to #4107 while Archie went from #192 to #13.

Moved the same way as Rahil

Aaron Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Boys, Rahil went from #1765 to #4107 and Aaron from #33 to #146.
Adam Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Boys, Rahil went from #1765 to #4107 and Adam from #16 to #41.
Alan Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Boys, Rahil went from #1765 to #4107 and Alan from #163 to #464.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Boys, Rahil went from #1765 to #4107 and Alex from #43 to #152.

What's not yet available

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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: #1078 in England and Wales in 2001. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Rahil

Rahil at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Rahil across 2 official records

Rahil by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Rahil appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

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Rahil at a glance

Rahil across 2 official records

Rahil by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Rahil appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Rahil and the names beside it

Rahil moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Rahil

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