Meaning not yet researched.
Rayden: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 297 in 2025. Its best rank was #670 in 2015.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #670 in 2015; #833 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Rayden in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#833 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2015, at #670.
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Rayden: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 297 boys in 2025. Peak: #670 in 2015 · most boys in one year: 398 (2022).
In 2025, 297 US boys were named Rayden, making it the 833rd most common boys’ name of the year, down 75 places from #758 in 2024. That is 39 fewer than the 336 boys named Rayden in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #670, reached in 2015. The most boys given the name in a single year was 398, in 2022. For comparison, it was #670 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Rayden in 35 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1991 with 7 babies. In all, 6,937 US babies have been given the name, 5.3% of them girls and 95% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 3,428 babies named Rayden.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 3,482 US boys were named Rayden; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 398. In 2025 that was about 1 in 5,751 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Rayden ranked highest in Louisiana in 2025, at #521 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Raiden (13,141 babies since 1880) and Raidyn (751 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
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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 Rayden 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 29 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Louisiana | 9 | #521 | #694 |
| Arizona | 12 | #589 | #863 |
| Michigan | 14 | #596 | #954 |
| Alabama | 8 | #611 | #473 |
| Minnesota | 8 | #627 | — |
| Wisconsin | 7 | #670 | — |
| New York | 21 | #708 | #1,050 |
| Tennessee | 10 | #711 | #580 |
| Oklahoma | 5 | #779 | #688 |
| California | 33 | #783 | #618 |
| Maryland | 6 | #786 | — |
| New Jersey | 8 | #814 | — |
| Texas | 33 | #823 | #566 |
| Florida | 18 | #838 | #532 |
| Virginia | 8 | #858 | #862 |
| Massachusetts | 5 | #873 | — |
| Georgia | 10 | #904 | #565 |
| North Carolina | 9 | #922 | #1,271 |
| Missouri | 5 | #968 | #485 |
| Indiana | 5 | #1,048 | #474 |
| Pennsylvania | 7 | #1,075 | #1,131 |
| Washington | 5 | #1,116 | #536 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 297 | #833 |
| 2024 | 8 | #11,927 | 336 | #758 |
| 2023 | 12 | #8,870 | 346 | #754 |
| 2022 | 18 | #6,654 | 398 | #682 |
| 2021 | 16 | #7,192 | 379 | #699 |
| 2020 | 13 | #8,318 | 336 | #732 |
| 2019 | 17 | #6,955 | 334 | #730 |
| 2018 | 20 | #6,186 | 358 | #684 |
| 2017 | 29 | #4,785 | 367 | #682 |
| 2016 | 19 | #6,618 | 331 | #738 |
| 2015 | 29 | #4,829 | 383 | #670 |
| 2014 | 24 | #5,597 | 372 | #680 |
| 2013 | 18 | #6,962 | 304 | #750 |
| 2012 | 18 | #7,086 | 302 | #760 |
| 2011 | 12 | #9,598 | 262 | #829 |
| 2010 | 12 | #9,676 | 217 | #932 |
| 2009 | 17 | #7,613 | 196 | #1,004 |
| 2008 | 10 | #11,422 | 195 | #1,004 |
| 2007 | 13 | #9,423 | 141 | #1,253 |
| 2006 | 9 | #12,203 | 110 | #1,424 |
| 2005 | 11 | #9,976 | 102 | #1,451 |
| 2004 | 11 | #9,766 | 77 | #1,685 |
| 2003 | 5 | #17,778 | 81 | #1,577 |
| 2002 | 11 | #9,353 | 74 | #1,635 |
| 2001 | 5 | #17,331 | 41 | #2,416 |
| 2000 | — | — | 43 | #2,287 |
| 1999 | 5 | #16,282 | 33 | #2,658 |
| 1998 | 5 | #15,996 | 36 | #2,435 |
| 1997 | — | — | 31 | #2,598 |
| 1996 | — | — | 26 | #2,893 |
| 1995 | — | — | 29 | #2,608 |
| 1994 | — | — | 14 | #4,484 |
| 1993 | — | — | 6 | #8,458 |
| 1992 | — | — | 6 | #8,228 |
| 1991 | — | — | 7 | #7,111 |
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).