Raaga
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- RAH-gah
- Origin
- Sanskrit
- US rank, 2025
- #6,545 for girls
Raaga is a girls' name of Sanskrit origin, meaning “melody, colour, passion”. In 2025 it ranked 6,545th for girls in the US (17 babies).
What does Raaga mean?
Sanskrit: from raga 'colour, passion, melody'
“melody, colour, passion”
A raga is a melodic framework for improvisation in Indian classical music.
Is Raaga a girl's or a boy's name?
Raaga is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 17 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Raaga in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #6,545among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 17about 1 in 95,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 17 girls in the US were named Raaga, making it the 6,545th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 13,448th. It first appears in the records in 2004.
2025 had the most girls named Raaga of any year since it first appeared, in 2004.
Half of all the girls named Raaga in the US since 1880 were born between 2013 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.
Raaga in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 17 | #6,545 |
| 2024 | 11 | #8,941 |
| 2023 | 7 | #12,192 |
| 2022 | 9 | #10,377 |
| 2021 | 9 | #10,287 |
| 2020 | 6 | #13,448 |
| 2019 | 8 | #11,350 |
| 2018 | 5 | #15,677 |
| 2017 | 11 | #9,337 |
| 2016 | 6 | #14,326 |
| 2015 | 8 | #11,830 |
| 2014 | 8 | #11,925 |
| 2013 | 9 | #10,995 |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 5 | #16,756 |
| 2010 | 7 | #13,442 |
| 2009 | 7 | #13,698 |
| 2008 | 5 | #17,498 |
| 2007 | 6 | #15,485 |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 5 | #16,092 |
Names like Raaga
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Viha Prisha Aadhya Dhriti Anvika Adhara Arya Saanvi Aarya Aavya Navya Vibha
More Sanskrit names
Maya Bodhi Lila Arjun Aarav Rohan Kali Aryan Opal Arjan Vihaan Avyaan Ishaan Siya Leena Shivansh
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Raaga: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/raaga, updated 20 October 2026.