Rakai
A boys’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 5 babies a year in England and Wales.
Rakai by the numbers
In 2025, 5 babies in England and Wales were named Rakai. In the US, 8 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
For the size of the two countries, it is given several times more often in England and Wales than in the US.
Its best year in America so far is the most recent one on record, which means it was still climbing when the records end.
What we can tell you about Rakai
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Rakai. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Rakan15 in England and Wales (2025)
- Rayanwatered; verdant or irrigated land291 in England and Wales (2025)
- Randiwarrior; shield warrior; a form of randall69 in the US (2017)
- Rababfourth string of an oud musical instrument34 in England and Wales (2025)
- Raffihe has healed; diminutive of raphael29 in England and Wales (2025)
- Raganlittle king; variant of Regan22 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Rakai
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