Rarity
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- RAIR-ih-tee
- Origin
- English
- US rank, 2025
- #8,858 for girls
Rarity is a girls' name of English origin, meaning “something rare and precious”. In 2025 it ranked 8,858th for girls in the US (11 babies).
What does Rarity mean?
English: English word
“something rare and precious”
Rarity is a fashion-loving unicorn in the cartoon My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (2010-2019).
Is Rarity a girl's or a boy's name?
Rarity is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 11 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Rarity in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 8,858th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 11 about 1 in 150,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 11 girls in the US were named Rarity, making it the 8,858th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 7,964th. Its busiest year was 2020, with 13 girls. It first appears in the records in 2013.
2025 had more girls named Rarity than any year since 2020.
Half of all the girls named Rarity in the US since 1880 were born between 2016 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.
Rarity in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #8,858 |
| 2024 | 10 | #9,551 |
| 2023 | 6 | #13,456 |
| 2022 | 7 | #12,237 |
| 2021 | 10 | #9,557 |
| 2020 | 13 | #7,964 |
| 2019 | 8 | #11,350 |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,146 |
| 2017 | 11 | #9,337 |
| 2016 | 8 | #11,776 |
| 2015 | 9 | #10,861 |
| 2014 | 8 | #11,925 |
| 2013 | 7 | #13,145 |
Names like Rarity
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Navy, Royalty, Adhara, Everly, Klarity, River, Legacy, Anvika, Aadhya, Verity, Avaya, Ailany
More English names
Lily, Evelyn, Hudson, Ivy, Harper, Grace, Violet, Willow, Daisy, Poppy, Riley, Oakley, Mason, Cooper, Ruby, Hallie
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, “Rarity: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/rarity, updated 20 October 2026.