Ravi
Last seen for girls in 1968 at #7,016 · #1,244 for boys in 2025, 160 births
Given to boys 99.9% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1986 · 80 births
- Debut · boys
- 7 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 3,605since 1963
Ravi over time
Rank among boys' names. Ravi has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #1,244 | 160 | |
| 2024 | — | #1,211 | 167 | |
| 2023 | — | #1,432 | 127 | |
| 2022 | — | #1,516 | 119 | |
| 2021 | — | #1,721 | 94 | |
| 2020 | — | #1,977 | 72 | |
| 2019 | — | #2,364 | 57 | |
| 2018 | — | #2,579 | 49 | |
| 2017 | — | #2,755 | 44 | |
| 2016 | — | #2,518 | 50 | |
| 2015 | — | #2,600 | 47 | |
| 2014 | — | #2,230 | 60 | |
| 2013 | — | #2,364 | 53 | |
| 2012 | — | #2,678 | 45 | |
| 2011 | — | #2,403 | 52 | |
| 2010 | — | #2,958 | 39 | |
| 2009 | — | #2,486 | 51 | |
| 2008 | — | #2,345 | 55 | |
| 2007 | — | #2,811 | 42 | |
| 2006 | — | #1,967 | 68 | |
| 2005 | — | #2,061 | 60 | |
| 2004 | — | #2,075 | 57 | |
| 2003 | — | #2,180 | 50 | |
| 2002 | — | #2,068 | 52 | |
| 2001 | — | #2,151 | 48 | |
| 2000 | — | #1,830 | 58 | |
| 1999 | — | #1,604 | 67 | |
| 1998 | — | #1,574 | 67 | |
| 1997 | — | #1,550 | 66 | |
| 1996 | — | #1,413 | 74 | |
| 1995 | — | #1,864 | 46 | |
| 1994 | — | #1,633 | 56 | |
| 1993 | — | #1,524 | 60 | |
| 1992 | — | #1,452 | 63 | |
| 1991 | — | #1,482 | 59 | |
| 1990 | — | #1,156 | 88 | |
| 1989 | — | #1,173 | 82 | |
| 1988 | — | #1,164 | 75 | |
| 1987 | — | #1,054 | 82 | |
| 1986 | — | #1,041 | 80 | |
| 1985 | — | #1,043 | 78 | |
| 1984 | — | #1,076 | 69 | |
| 1983 | — | #1,490 | 41 | |
| 1982 | — | #1,179 | 61 | |
| 1981 | — | #1,433 | 44 | |
| 1980 | — | #1,166 | 61 | |
| 1979 | — | #1,291 | 51 | |
| 1978 | — | #1,299 | 48 | |
| 1977 | — | #1,515 | 37 | |
| 1976 | — | #1,190 | 52 | |
| 1975 | — | #1,238 | 47 | |
| 1974 | — | #1,471 | 35 | |
| 1973 | — | #1,376 | 37 | |
| 1972 | — | #1,603 | 29 | |
| 1971 | — | #1,637 | 29 | |
| 1970 | — | #1,494 | 32 | |
| 1969 | — | #1,605 | 26 | |
| 1968 | #7,016 | 5 | #1,366 | 32 |
| 1967 | — | #1,652 | 22 | |
| 1966 | — | #2,784 | 9 | |
| 1965 | — | #3,537 | 6 | |
| 1964 | — | #2,546 | 11 | |
| 1963 | — | #3,318 | 7 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Ravi! It came in at #3,318, and was given to 7 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1965–1966, when fewer than 10 boys a year got the name.
Where Ravi is popular in 1979
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New York#818 · 1 in 13,877
- California#1,136 · 1 in 25,676
Best ever in a state: #166 in Massachusetts, 2025.
Show every state
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| New York | #818 | 8 | 1 in 13,877 |
| California | #1,136 | 7 | 1 in 25,676 |
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See more about Ravi
- 33 spots since 2024 (#1,211 → #1,244)
- 733 spots since 2020 (#1,977 → #1,244)
- 1,356 spots since 2015 (#2,600 → #1,244)
- Debuted 1963
- Peaked 1986 at #1,041 (80 births)
- Births halved by 2010, 24 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 10,317 boys born in 2024 were named Ravi (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 10,675 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #1,041 in 1986, was only 1 in 23,019 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 20.5% of all boys named Ravi (739) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1960s | 113 | #1,366 (1968) | #2,401 |
| 1970s | 397 | #1,190 (1976) | #1,411 |
| 1980s | 673 | #1,041 (1986) | #1,182 |
| 1990s | 646 | #1,156 (1990) | #1,525 |
| 2000s | 541 | #1,830 (2000) | #2,197 |
| 2010s | 496 | #2,230 (2014) | #2,545 |
| 2020s | 739 | #1,211 (2024) | #1,517 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Ravi in 1979
Top boys' names in 1979
More about 1979
boys
1,721,536 boys got a published name in 1979; 1 in 33,756 of them was named Ravi, which outranked 81.7% of the 7,071 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.1% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,270Thor52
- #1,270Tito52
- #1,270Tyrus52
- #1,291Ravi51
- #1,291Ammon51
- #1,291Bilal51
- #1,291Konstantinos51
- #1,304Bucky50
- #1,304Burt50
- #1,304Cooper50
Tied with 12 names at #1,291; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.