Rakhi

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Rekha in IN India, BD Bangladesh, US United States and 21 more, Reka in HU Hungary, ES Spain, RO Romania and 1 more, เลขา in TH Thailand and Řeha in CZ Czechia.

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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

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◐

Rakhi is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• a separate given name2.4K records spelled Rakhi2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, United States

  Also written Rākhī

• Croatian given name158 records spelled Rakhi15 spellings in the group

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

  Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Slovenian

  Also written Rahi, Рахи, Ракхи

• English given name69 records spelled Rakhi78 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Canada, India, Australia

  Languages: English, Bangla, Finnish

  Also written Rocky, Raki, রকি, Rocki, Rockey

26 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●

Rakhi 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, An ornamental cotton wristband tied by a girl or woman on to the wrist of her brother, or of one who takes on the responsibilities of a brother, particularly during the Raksha Bandhan festival.

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In mfe, An ornamental wristband given by a young woman (or can be elder than the brother) to a brother(can be her sibling or a person who the lady has positioned as a brother)

  as a word·kaikki.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●

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 100 years between 1899–2015. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Rakhi Sawantb. 1978INIndian actress

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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 238 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Rakhi?

We estimate roughly 59 thousand people bear Rakhi (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.

In which country does Rakhi have the most bearers?

Rakhi is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled rekha.

Where is Rakhi most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Rakhi is densest in Hungary — about 1 in 295 people — even though India holds more of our records for it.

How common is Rakhi compared with other names?

In India, Rakhi is the 26th most common given name of 4,777,337 given names recorded there.

Is Rakhi a male or female name?

Rakhi is a female 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.