Given name
Rajat
“as precious as silver”
Rajat is used as a given name. One Indian interpretation is “as precious as silver.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Indian interpretation is “as precious as silver.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Indian.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1977. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Rajat through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 108
- 108 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1999
- 10 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 7 in 2007. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,171 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Rajat’s family of names
Rajat has a related form in Rafi. In English usage, Rajat has a conventional equivalent in the Hindi form रजत. In Hindi usage, Rajat is a Roman-alphabet rendering of रजत.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Rajat
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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