Raunak
- Gender
- Mostly girls
- Say it
- ROW-nak
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #1,961 for girls
- US rank, 2025
- #9,454 for girls
Raunak is a name of Arabic origin, meaning “brightness, splendour”. In 2025 it ranked 1,961st for girls in the UK (15 babies) and 9,454th for girls in the US (10 babies).
What does Raunak mean?
Arabic: Arabic rawnaq, via Persian into Hindi, Urdu and Punjabi
“brightness, splendour”
An everyday word in Hindi, Urdu and Punjabi for glow or liveliness, used as a given name for both girls and boys.
Is Raunak a girl's or a boy's name?
In recent years, Raunak has been given to girls and boys, mostly girls. In 2025, it was given to 15 girls in the UK and 10 girls in the US.
How popular is Raunak in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 1,961st among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 15 about 1 in 19,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Newly popular new in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 15 girls in the UK were named Raunak, making it the 1,961st most popular name for girls.
It has been given to more girls each year for the last 3 years.
Among girls in 2025, it was 1,892nd in England and Wales.
Raunak in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15 | #1,961 |
| 2024 | 8 | #3,076 |
| 2023 | 6 | #3,766 |
| 2022 | 3 | #5,885 |
How popular is Raunak in the US?
No boys in the US were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2006, with 14 boys. It first appears in the records in 1998. 10 girls were also named Raunak in 2025 (9,454th for girls).
Half of all the boys named Raunak in the US since 1880 were born between 2004 and 2016, the years shaded on the chart below.
Raunak in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 5 | #12,341 |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 8 | #8,983 |
| 2021 | 5 | #12,141 |
| 2020 | 6 | #10,599 |
| 2019 | 7 | #9,750 |
| 2018 | 7 | #9,664 |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 10 | #7,600 |
| 2015 | 9 | #8,035 |
| 2014 | 9 | #8,124 |
| 2013 | 8 | #8,784 |
| 2012 | 8 | #8,858 |
| 2011 | 9 | #8,072 |
| 2010 | 8 | #8,797 |
| 2009 | 8 | #8,980 |
| 2008 | 8 | #9,013 |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 14 | #5,777 |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 9 | #7,530 |
| 2003 | 11 | #6,251 |
| 2002 | 10 | #6,515 |
| 2001 | 8 | #7,529 |
| 2000 | 8 | #7,409 |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 6 | #8,472 |
Names like Raunak
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Raya, Rehmat, Sidak, Hana, Ayat, Gurnaaz, Yusra, Amal, Gursanjh, Ranya, Ayah, Aadhya
More Arabic names
Muhammad, Layla, Mohammed, Lyla, Mohammad, Zara, Aaliyah, Amir, Amira, Fatima, Ali, Yahya, Zayn, Aisha, Omar, Zahra
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and 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, “Raunak: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/raunak, updated 20 October 2026.