---
title: "Rank Math: search popularity worldwide"
description: "Rank Math is a WordPress SEO plugin. Branded searches tell you how often people look for a brand by name or related terms. Comparing these searches across competitors helps you see how popular each brand is over time."
canonical: "https://gobrandwave.com/demand/global-en/brands/rank-math"
publisher: "Brandwave"
---

# Rank Math: search popularity worldwide

Rank Math is a WordPress SEO plugin. Branded searches tell you how often people look for a brand by name or related terms. Comparing these searches across competitors helps you see how popular each brand is over time.

## Key facts

- **Brand**: Rank Math
- **Market**: Global
- **Measured month**: Sep 2026
- **Share of Search among WordPress SEO plugins**: 48.4%

## Where the brand sits

| Competitive set | Rank | Share of Search | Estimated monthly branded searches |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| WordPress SEO plugins | 1 | 48.4% | 18.1K |

- [WordPress SEO plugins](/demand/global-en/categories/wordpress-seo-plugins)

## How has branded search demand for Rank Math changed worldwide over the last 12 months?

- Across the 12 months ending September 2026, estimated monthly branded searches for Rank Math worldwide fell from 27.1K to 18.1K.
- Across the 12 months ending September 2026, Rank Math’s estimated Share of Search among WordPress SEO plugins worldwide decreased from 53.4% to 48.4%.
- Across the 12 months ending September 2026, Rank Math’s estimated Share of Search among WordPress SEO plugins worldwide peaked at 54.4% in December 2025 and was lowest at 47.5% in August 2026.

## How did search popularity change for WordPress SEO plugins worldwide in September 2026?

- In September 2026, Rank Math gained estimated Share of Search among WordPress SEO plugins worldwide, from 47.5% to 48.4%.
- In September 2026, Yoast gained estimated Share of Search among WordPress SEO plugins worldwide, from 31.7% to 32.3%.
- In September 2026, All in One SEO lost estimated Share of Search among WordPress SEO plugins worldwide, from 9.4% to 7.7%.
- In September 2026, SEOPress rose from 4th to 3rd among WordPress SEO plugins worldwide.
- Estimated monthly branded searches for The SEO Framework worldwide fell 18.2% over 12 measured months, from 880 to 720 in September 2026.

## Historical estimated branded-search demand

| Month | Competitive set | Estimated monthly branded searches | Share of Search | Rank |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Oct 2025 | WordPress SEO plugins | 27.1K | 53.4% | 1 |
| Nov 2025 | WordPress SEO plugins | 27.1K | 52.5% | 1 |
| Dec 2025 | WordPress SEO plugins | 27.1K | 54.4% | 1 |
| Jan 2026 | WordPress SEO plugins | 27.1K | 53.4% | 1 |
| Feb 2026 | WordPress SEO plugins | 27.1K | 53.4% | 1 |
| Mar 2026 | WordPress SEO plugins | 27.1K | 52.2% | 1 |
| Apr 2026 | WordPress SEO plugins | 27.1K | 53.2% | 1 |
| May 2026 | WordPress SEO plugins | 22.2K | 51.4% | 1 |
| Jun 2026 | WordPress SEO plugins | 22.2K | 52.6% | 1 |
| Jul 2026 | WordPress SEO plugins | 22.2K | 52.6% | 1 |
| Aug 2026 | WordPress SEO plugins | 18.1K | 47.5% | 1 |
| Sep 2026 | WordPress SEO plugins | 18.1K | 48.4% | 1 |

## How is Rank Math measured?

Brandwave collects information about searches that people make online using Rank Math’s name. When viewed over time, estimated search volumes for this branded term can be used to understand whether interest in the brand is growing, holding steady, or fading.

- “rank math”

## Which WordPress SEO plugins compete with Rank Math?

- [Yoast](/demand/global-en/brands/yoast): Head-to-head: /demand/global-en/compare/rank-math-vs-yoast
- [SEOPress](/demand/global-en/brands/seopress): Head-to-head: /demand/global-en/compare/rank-math-vs-seopress
- [All in One SEO](/demand/global-en/brands/all-in-one-seo): Head-to-head: /demand/global-en/compare/all-in-one-seo-vs-rank-math
- [The SEO Framework](/demand/global-en/brands/the-seo-framework): Head-to-head: /demand/global-en/compare/rank-math-vs-the-seo-framework

## Methodology

- [How is branded search demand measured?](/demand/methodology): Where the figures come from, what they compare, and how they may be reused.

## Cite this page

Brandwave. "Rank Math: search popularity worldwide". https://gobrandwave.com/demand/global-en/brands/rank-math

This page is also available as HTML at https://gobrandwave.com/demand/global-en/brands/rank-math. Brandwave publishes an index of its Markdown pages at https://gobrandwave.com/llms.txt.