Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1975. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Rakhi through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 81
- 27 boys · 54 girls
- Most popular year
- 1979
- 11 babies
- 2025
- 6
- #11,685 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 6 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 11,685 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 684 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.
Rakhi’s family of names
In English usage, Rakhi has a related form in RAKHEE. In English usage, Rakhi was borrowed from the Hindi form राखी.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 2
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 Rakhi
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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