Meaning not yet researched.
Rayaan: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 63 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,978 in 2022.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,978 in 2022; #2,247 in 2025. About 83% of babies named Rayaan in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,247 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2022, at #1,978.
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Rayaan: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 63 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,978 in 2022 · most boys in one year: 78 (2022).
In 2025, 63 US boys were named Rayaan, making it the 2,247th most common boys’ name of the year, up 6 places from #2,253 in 2024. That is 1 fewer than the 64 boys named Rayaan in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,978, reached in 2022. That year also had the most boys given the name: 78. For comparison, it was #2,322 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 13 US girls were named Rayaan, making it the 8,239th most common girls’ name of the year. Its best rank for girls was #5,795, reached in 2015. That year also had the most girls given the name: 23. For comparison, it was #5,795 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Rayaan in 26 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2000 with 8 babies. In all, 1,286 US babies have been given the name, 15% of them girls and 85% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 612 babies named Rayaan.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 601 US boys were named Rayaan; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 78. In 2025 that was about 1 in 27,112 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Rayaan ranked highest in Maryland in 2025, at #895 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Rayan (9,953 babies since 1880), Raeann (3,915 babies since 1880), Rayyan (3,471 babies since 1880) and Rayann (1,650 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Raihaan are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Raihaan (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Rayaan in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 47 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maryland | 5 | #895 | — |
| Virginia | 6 | #1,063 | — |
| New York | 10 | #1,192 | #1,317 |
| Texas | 6 | #2,498 | #2,332 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #8,239 | 63 | #2,247 |
| 2024 | — | — | 64 | #2,253 |
| 2023 | 6 | #14,792 | 72 | #2,072 |
| 2022 | 14 | #7,946 | 78 | #1,978 |
| 2021 | 11 | #9,416 | 60 | #2,318 |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,901 | 61 | #2,256 |
| 2019 | 10 | #10,310 | 65 | #2,185 |
| 2018 | 10 | #10,399 | 56 | #2,377 |
| 2017 | 14 | #8,195 | 37 | #3,179 |
| 2016 | 10 | #10,683 | 45 | #2,715 |
| 2015 | 23 | #5,795 | 57 | #2,322 |
| 2014 | 9 | #11,736 | 69 | #2,056 |
| 2013 | 17 | #7,307 | 47 | #2,590 |
| 2012 | 11 | #10,273 | 58 | #2,259 |
| 2011 | 5 | #18,950 | 25 | #4,077 |
| 2010 | 7 | #14,636 | 37 | #3,119 |
| 2009 | 5 | #19,558 | 30 | #3,615 |
| 2008 | 12 | #9,951 | 26 | #4,007 |
| 2007 | 7 | #15,122 | 26 | #3,976 |
| 2006 | — | — | 35 | #3,140 |
| 2005 | — | — | 21 | #4,301 |
| 2004 | — | — | 10 | #7,397 |
| 2003 | — | — | 22 | #3,945 |
| 2002 | — | — | 15 | #5,088 |
| 2001 | — | — | 7 | #9,013 |
| 2000 | — | — | 8 | #8,031 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).