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Razi

Boy · RAH-zee · Persian

Razi is a boys' name of Persian origin, meaning “from Rey; or my secret”. In 2025 it ranked 12,003rd for boys in the US (5 babies).

What does Razi mean?

Persian: Persian-Arabic name meaning 'of Rey', a city near Tehran; also Hebrew 'my secret'

“from Rey; or my secret”

Abu Bakr al-Razi, the Persian physician known in Europe as Rhazes, was named after his home city of Rey.

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RAH-zee

Is Razi a girl's or a boy's name?

Razi is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 5 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.

How popular is Razi in the US?

Rank in 2025
#12,003among boys
Babies in 2025
5about 1 in 340,000 boys
Five-year trend
Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 boys

In 2025, 5 boys in the US were named Razi, making it the 12,003rd most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 10,599th. Its busiest year was 2006, with 16 boys. It first appears in the records in 1984.

Half of all the boys named Razi in the US since 1880 were born between 2004 and 2020, the years shaded on the chart below.

1984Busiest: 16 in 20062025
Razi in the US, year by year
YearBoysRank
20255#12,003
20247#9,888
202310#7,733
20226#10,855
20210–
20206#10,599
20198#8,883
20180–
20170–
20160–
20150–
201411#7,043
20130–
20120–
20110–
20100–
20095#12,486
20080–
20078#8,909
200616#5,299
20059#7,633
20047#8,921
20036#9,574
20026#9,385
20010–
20000–
19996#8,697
19986#8,472
19970–
19960–
19950–
19940–
19930–
19920–
19910–
19900–
19890–
19880–
19870–
19860–
19850–
19846#5,557

Names like Razi

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