Meaning not yet researched.
Rayan: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 499 in 2025. Its best rank was #561 in 2016.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #561 in 2016; #588 in 2025. About 93% of babies named Rayan in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#588 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2016, at #561.
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Rayan: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 499 boys in 2025. Peak: #561 in 2016 · most boys in one year: 518 (2023).
In 2025, 499 US boys were named Rayan, making it the 588th most common boys’ name of the year, down 9 places from #579 in 2024. That is 6 more than the 493 boys named Rayan in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #561, reached in 2016. The most boys given the name in a single year was 518, in 2023. For comparison, it was #584 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 35 US girls were named Rayan, making it the 4,150th most common girls’ name of the year, up 1,774 places from #5,924 in 2024. That is 14 more than the 21 girls named Rayan in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,882, reached in 2015. That year also had the most girls given the name: 61. For comparison, it was #2,882 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Rayan in 50 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1973 with 6 babies. In all, 9,953 US babies have been given the name, 11% of them girls and 89% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 4,722 babies named Rayan.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 4,779 US boys were named Rayan; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 518. In 2025 that was about 1 in 3,423 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Rayan ranked highest in District of Columbia in 2025, at #161 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Rayne (9,380 babies since 1880), Rain (4,806 babies since 1880), Raeann (3,915 babies since 1880) and Rayyan (3,471 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Rayanne, Rayn and Rayhan are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Rare spellings summarised here: Rayanne (1,276), Rayn (1,252), Rayhan (930), Rayon (547), Raiyan (373), Rahn (348), Raihan (314), Rayen (287), Rayane (135), Raun (129), Rayhaan (113), Ran (109), and more.
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 Rayan 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 25 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| District of Columbia | 6 | #161 | — |
| Virginia | 28 | #302 | #250 |
| Illinois | 34 | #323 | #370 |
| New York | 48 | #373 | #289 |
| New Jersey | 22 | #374 | #287 |
| Maryland | 13 | #403 | #483 |
| Massachusetts | 13 | #405 | #288 |
| California | 71 | #449 | #561 |
| Ohio | 21 | #508 | #553 |
| Colorado | 11 | #529 | — |
| Connecticut | 5 | #557 | #352 |
| Washington | 13 | #560 | #828 |
| Michigan | 15 | #561 | #551 |
| North Carolina | 18 | #563 | #1,270 |
| Indiana | 12 | #573 | — |
| Florida | 29 | #598 | #584 |
| Wisconsin | 8 | #611 | — |
| Texas | 50 | #619 | #649 |
| Iowa | 5 | #647 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 14 | #652 | #500 |
| Oregon | 5 | #686 | — |
| Louisiana | 6 | #747 | — |
| Kentucky | 5 | #789 | — |
| Minnesota | 5 | #908 | #768 |
| Missouri | 5 | #967 | — |
| Georgia | 7 | #1,193 | #564 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 35 | #4,150 | 499 | #588 |
| 2024 | 21 | #5,924 | 493 | #579 |
| 2023 | 20 | #6,113 | 518 | #562 |
| 2022 | 44 | #3,583 | 445 | #628 |
| 2021 | 34 | #4,222 | 407 | #665 |
| 2020 | 31 | #4,423 | 442 | #617 |
| 2019 | 56 | #2,953 | 497 | #563 |
| 2018 | 53 | #3,096 | 489 | #564 |
| 2017 | 52 | #3,129 | 476 | #574 |
| 2016 | 55 | #3,048 | 513 | #561 |
| 2015 | 61 | #2,882 | 476 | #584 |
| 2014 | 53 | #3,133 | 440 | #608 |
| 2013 | 45 | #3,509 | 359 | #673 |
| 2012 | 51 | #3,253 | 362 | #657 |
| 2011 | 40 | #3,825 | 309 | #734 |
| 2010 | 40 | #3,875 | 295 | #762 |
| 2009 | 38 | #4,082 | 279 | #798 |
| 2008 | 39 | #4,071 | 243 | #874 |
| 2007 | 29 | #5,066 | 220 | #906 |
| 2006 | 19 | #6,782 | 182 | #1,015 |
| 2005 | 34 | #4,179 | 134 | #1,195 |
| 2004 | 28 | #4,792 | 99 | #1,433 |
| 2003 | 26 | #4,915 | 106 | #1,316 |
| 2002 | 17 | #6,630 | 78 | #1,583 |
| 2001 | 26 | #4,657 | 52 | #2,043 |
| 2000 | 19 | #5,889 | 51 | #2,010 |
| 1999 | 24 | #4,695 | 47 | #2,055 |
| 1998 | 8 | #10,901 | 30 | #2,768 |
| 1997 | 8 | #10,564 | 26 | #2,962 |
| 1996 | 11 | #7,986 | 27 | #2,815 |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,586 | 26 | #2,832 |
| 1994 | 12 | #7,484 | 24 | #3,012 |
| 1993 | — | — | 20 | #3,341 |
| 1992 | — | — | 23 | #2,982 |
| 1991 | 8 | #10,015 | 25 | #2,734 |
| 1990 | 5 | #14,660 | 20 | #3,143 |
| 1989 | — | — | 18 | #3,299 |
| 1988 | 6 | #11,390 | 20 | #2,835 |
| 1987 | — | — | 11 | #4,180 |
| 1986 | — | — | 23 | #2,410 |
| 1985 | — | — | 14 | #3,351 |
| 1984 | — | — | 12 | #3,630 |
| 1983 | — | — | 10 | #4,082 |
| 1982 | — | — | 13 | #3,443 |
| 1981 | — | — | 8 | #4,857 |
| 1980 | — | — | 6 | #6,069 |
| 1979 | — | — | 10 | #4,014 |
| 1978 | — | — | 7 | #4,932 |
| 1977 | — | — | 5 | #6,633 |
| 1973 | — | — | 6 | #4,950 |
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).