Rahul

given name · Hindi · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Rahul is a given name, most frequently recorded in India, where it is the 24th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Hindi and Bangla, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Transliteration of Sanskrit राहुल (rāhula).

rarermore common
  • ARArgentina1 in 211◐
  • MXMexico1 in 312
  • CLChile1 in 313

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈406K ●

across 10 countries

#121 ●

of 16M given names

8 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
457 ●

6.9M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 352 ◐

Spain

Spellings & scripts●

RaulLatin · Spanish●7M records
РаульCyrillic · Russian●22K records
ᲠაულGeorgian · Georgian●2.6K records
রাহুলBengali · Bangla●2.4K records
ราหุลThai · Thai●165 records
라울Hangul · Korean●6 records
ରାହୁଲOdia · Odia●4 records
ΡαούλGreek · Greek●0 records

Locally spelled Raul in AR Argentina, US United States, BR Brazil and 16 more, Рауль in RU Russia, AZ Azerbaijan, Რაულ in GE Georgia and Raúl in SV El Salvador.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Transliteration of Sanskrit राहुल (rāhula)

Sources 1

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Rahul is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India#245,988,5321.7M rec.—49KRahul321
AR Argentina#383,244,0021.8M rec.—197Raul157
MX Mexico#531,017,190781K rec.—3.1KRaul242
PE Peru#38645,762502K rec.——Raul123
VE Venezuela#73306,024112K rec.——Raul103
CL Chile#59288,07017K rec.—70Raul148
ES Spain#53142,040234K rec.1 in 352142KRaul238
US United States#330131,2971.3M rec.1 in 2.5K131KRaul457
PH Philippines#190104,15990K rec.—listedRaul113
BD Bangladesh#32895,0353.9K rec.—listedRahul72
CO Colombia#14666,80427K rec.—44Raul147
BR Brazil#41964,69453K rec.1 in 3.3K65KRaul196

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Hindi5.1M80%
  • Bangla546K8%
  • English232K4%
  • 155K2%
  • Urdu60K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Hindi5,123,68980%
Bangla545,6638%
English232,3484%
155,2372%
Urdu59,8371%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Rahul is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate given name160K records spelled Rahul2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, United Kingdom, Canada

    Also written Rāhul

  • Arabic given name26K records spelled Rahul6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Qatar

    Languages: Arabic, Hebrew, Amharic

    Also written Řăhűľ, Ŕàhùĺ, ራሑል

  • Turkish given name4.8K records spelled Rahul34 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, United Kingdom, Azerbaijan

    Languages: Turkish, Uzbek, Azerbaijani

    Also written Rãhül, Rähül, Ràhúl, Rãhûl, Râhúl

  • Hungarian given name3.6K records spelled Rahul10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Finland, United States, United Kingdom

    Languages: Hungarian, Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Rähûl, Râhül, Ŕāhül, Rähùl, Rãhül

  • Korean given name923 records spelled Rahul2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, South Korea, Malaysia

    Also written 라훌

  • a separate given name774 records spelled Rahul22 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, United Kingdom, Canada

    Also written Ràhùl, Rähūl, Ŕåhűl, Råhül, Råhúl

  • ab given name516 records spelled Rahul2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United Kingdom

    Also written Řãhùľ

33 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Rahul is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, A male given name from Sanskrit.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Estonian, adessive singular of rahu

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

020K40K60K19001950200056K · 1993

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Rahul in naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls), India, 1888–2017
Yearrecords
18881
18971
18982
189919
19002
19121
19131
19153
191610
191716
191821
191919
192030
192130
192248
1923221
192465
192561
19267
19275
19282
19299
19303
19315
19327
19336
19349
19357
19365
19378
19386
193911
19408
194113
194211
194315
194423
194514
194611
194723
194821
194926
195026
195136
195242
195338
195435
195552
195652
195754
195868
195978
196084
196176
196293
1963112
1964142
1965129
1966149
1967203
1968598
1969334
1970363
1971441
1972700
1973778
1974995
19751,246
19761,609
19771,587
19782,030
19792,420
19802,298
19814,117
19825,798
19837,162
198410,147
198511,145
198611,121
198717,762
198819,516
198922,420
199029,151
199138,226
199248,485
199356,009
199454,762
199550,726
199633,992
199728,793
199821,428
19992,642
200036
200119
20028
20031
20061
20074
2008393
2010218
20118
20128
201316
20142,885
2015768
20171

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 106 years between 1888–2017. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

19201940196019802000Rahul Bajaj, b. 1938Rahul Dev Burman, b. 1939Rahul Dholakia, b. 1950Rahul Bose, b. 1967Rahul Gandhi, b. 1970Rahul Khanna, b. 1972Rahul Dravid, b. 1973Tunde Adebimpe, b. 1975Rahul Bhatt, b. 1982Rahul Kohli, b. 1985

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 60 sources across 36 countries.

Official registers attesting Rahul
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IN IndiaIndia Names Dataset — Andhra Pradesh Electoral Rolls (Internet Archive)—13K#453
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202010K#2,457
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—562#8,455
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)2026385#832
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—343#856
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—314#3,801
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—296#3,589
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—220#1,712
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—211#3,379
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—204#8,888
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2020176—
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—134#5,793

Reference works 3

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 398 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Rahul?
We estimate roughly 406 thousand people bear Rahul (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
In which country does Rahul have the most bearers?
Rahul is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled rahul.
How common is Rahul compared with other names?
In India, Rahul is the 24th most common given name of 4,777,337 given names recorded there.
Is Rahul a male or female name?
Rahul is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Rahul mean?
Recorded meaning: Transliteration of Sanskrit राहुल (rāhula)
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Rahul” — the 24th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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