How rare is the name Rajesh?

8,582 people in the United States have the first name Rajesh, about 1 in 35,194. It ranks #2,730 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

RAJESH

#2,730

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
8,582
About
1 in 35,194
This common or more
80.7%
Who bears it

Of the 8,582 people named Rajesh, 94.7% reported their origin as Asian or Pacific Islander, 1.6% as White and 1.4% as two or more races. 99.4% are male. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Rajesh peaked in 1976, when 43 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19652013
Peak year
1976
Births that year
43
In 2013
6 ▼86%
Recorded as
almost entirely male

At least 682 babies have been given the name since 1965. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero.

Rajesh by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1970s, when it ranked #3,935. The largest share of babies named Rajesh, 56.3%, were born between 1965 and 1980, Generation X's birth years.

1960s#9,41245
1970s#3,935319
1980s#6,728183
1990s#13,81890
2000s#26,27539
2010s#44,5536
Generation X 1965–8056.3%
Millennials 1981–9635.2%
Generation Z 1997–127.6%
2013 and later0.9%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Either side of Rajesh

#2,728 Hao · 8,585#2,728 Jamila · 8,585#2,731 Sandeep · 8,581#2,732 Elda · 8,580

Spelled almost the same

One first name in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Rajesh, most common first.

#3,964 Rakesh · 4,920

Also a last name

As a last name, Rajesh ranks #16,265 of 156,621, with 1,718 people. See Rajesh as a last name

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