Meaning not yet researched.
Rayford: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 5 in 2025. Its best rank was #518 in 1937.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #518 in 1937; #13,446 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Rayford in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#13,446 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1937, at #518.
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Rayford: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 5 boys in 2025. Peak: #518 in 1937 · most boys in one year: 124 (1937).
In 2025, 5 US boys were named Rayford, making it the 13,446th most common boys’ name of the year. Its best rank for boys was #518, reached in 1937. That year also had the most boys given the name: 124. For comparison, it was unranked (under five boys) in 2015 and #689 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Rayford in 115 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1896 with 8 babies. In all, 5,516 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 1940s, with 948 babies named Rayford.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 23 US boys were named Rayford; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 6. In 2025 that was about 1 in 341,615 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Raeford, Raiford and Raford 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.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Raeford (613), Raiford (594), Raford (170).
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 Rayford in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 5 | #13,446 |
| 2023 | — | — | 6 | #11,938 |
| 2021 | — | — | 6 | #11,820 |
| 2017 | — | — | 6 | #11,884 |
| 2014 | — | — | 7 | #10,476 |
| 2013 | — | — | 6 | #11,835 |
| 2012 | — | — | 5 | #13,764 |
| 2011 | — | — | 5 | #13,870 |
| 2010 | — | — | 6 | #11,863 |
| 2008 | — | — | 10 | #8,155 |
| 2007 | — | — | 6 | #12,036 |
| 2006 | — | — | 7 | #10,405 |
| 2005 | — | — | 11 | #7,005 |
| 2004 | — | — | 10 | #7,398 |
| 2002 | — | — | 12 | #5,994 |
| 2001 | — | — | 14 | #5,341 |
| 2000 | — | — | 6 | #10,051 |
| 1999 | — | — | 11 | #5,958 |
| 1998 | — | — | 10 | #6,192 |
| 1997 | — | — | 10 | #5,997 |
| 1996 | — | — | 12 | #5,116 |
| 1995 | — | — | 7 | #7,613 |
| 1994 | — | — | 11 | #5,378 |
| 1993 | — | — | 8 | #6,688 |
| 1992 | — | — | 17 | #3,711 |
| 1991 | — | — | 23 | #2,896 |
| 1990 | — | — | 22 | #2,940 |
| 1989 | — | — | 20 | #3,066 |
| 1988 | — | — | 21 | #2,749 |
| 1987 | — | — | 22 | #2,535 |
| 1986 | — | — | 26 | #2,212 |
| 1985 | — | — | 18 | #2,800 |
| 1984 | — | — | 31 | #1,832 |
| 1983 | — | — | 22 | #2,323 |
| 1982 | — | — | 34 | #1,728 |
| 1981 | — | — | 30 | #1,891 |
| 1980 | — | — | 24 | #2,204 |
| 1979 | — | — | 35 | #1,661 |
| 1978 | — | — | 29 | #1,824 |
| 1977 | — | — | 31 | #1,734 |
| 1976 | — | — | 23 | #2,097 |
| 1975 | — | — | 36 | #1,497 |
| 1974 | — | — | 35 | #1,496 |
| 1973 | — | — | 24 | #1,864 |
| 1972 | — | — | 43 | #1,283 |
| 1971 | — | — | 52 | #1,144 |
| 1970 | — | — | 40 | #1,331 |
| 1969 | — | — | 50 | #1,105 |
| 1968 | — | — | 58 | #966 |
| 1967 | — | — | 71 | #855 |
| 1966 | — | — | 57 | #965 |
| 1965 | — | — | 56 | #993 |
| 1964 | — | — | 64 | #954 |
| 1963 | — | — | 61 | #970 |
| 1962 | — | — | 79 | #852 |
| 1961 | — | — | 69 | #923 |
| 1960 | — | — | 76 | #875 |
| 1959 | — | — | 56 | #1,032 |
| 1958 | — | — | 83 | #827 |
| 1957 | — | — | 82 | #839 |
| 1956 | — | — | 93 | #769 |
| 1955 | — | — | 89 | #777 |
| 1954 | — | — | 96 | #738 |
| 1953 | — | — | 87 | #764 |
| 1952 | — | — | 111 | #659 |
| 1951 | — | — | 96 | #710 |
| 1950 | — | — | 99 | #689 |
| 1949 | — | — | 90 | #726 |
| 1948 | — | — | 91 | #702 |
| 1947 | — | — | 105 | #676 |
| 1946 | — | — | 99 | #651 |
| 1945 | — | — | 77 | #697 |
| 1944 | — | — | 111 | #584 |
| 1943 | — | — | 103 | #627 |
| 1942 | — | — | 92 | #676 |
| 1941 | — | — | 84 | #669 |
| 1940 | — | — | 96 | #606 |
| 1939 | — | — | 88 | #627 |
| 1938 | — | — | 101 | #585 |
| 1937 | — | — | 124 | #518 |
| 1936 | — | — | 82 | #642 |
| 1935 | — | — | 91 | #615 |
| 1934 | — | — | 93 | #622 |
| 1933 | — | — | 78 | #666 |
| 1932 | — | — | 96 | #604 |
| 1931 | — | — | 80 | #671 |
| 1930 | — | — | 90 | #652 |
| 1929 | — | — | 90 | #653 |
| 1928 | — | — | 95 | #641 |
| 1927 | — | — | 92 | #666 |
| 1926 | — | — | 83 | #697 |
| 1925 | — | — | 98 | #643 |
| 1924 | — | — | 81 | #742 |
| 1923 | — | — | 78 | #743 |
| 1922 | — | — | 80 | #740 |
| 1921 | — | — | 71 | #811 |
| 1920 | — | — | 73 | #780 |
| 1919 | — | — | 79 | #714 |
| 1918 | — | — | 60 | #854 |
| 1917 | — | — | 50 | #905 |
| 1916 | — | — | 27 | #1,327 |
| 1915 | — | — | 44 | #950 |
| 1914 | — | — | 29 | #1,071 |
| 1913 | — | — | 28 | #947 |
| 1912 | — | — | 23 | #962 |
| 1911 | — | — | 13 | #969 |
| 1910 | — | — | 7 | #1,398 |
| 1909 | — | — | 13 | #831 |
| 1908 | — | — | 6 | #1,342 |
| 1907 | — | — | 8 | #1,072 |
| 1906 | — | — | 5 | #1,380 |
| 1903 | — | — | 5 | #1,271 |
| 1901 | — | — | 5 | #1,177 |
| 1900 | — | — | 6 | #1,279 |
| 1896 | — | — | 8 | #882 |
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).