Meaning not yet researched.
Raylan: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 311 in 2025. Its best rank was #473 in 2015.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #473 in 2015; #802 in 2025. About 94% of babies named Raylan in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#802 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2015, at #473.
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Raylan: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 311 boys in 2025. Peak: #473 in 2015 · most boys in one year: 630 (2015).
In 2025, 311 US boys were named Raylan, making it the 802nd most common boys’ name of the year, down 85 places from #717 in 2024. That is 59 fewer than the 370 boys named Raylan in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #473, reached in 2015. That year also had the most boys given the name: 630. For comparison, it was #473 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Raylan in 32 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1975 with 5 babies. In all, 7,442 US babies have been given the name, 7.9% of them girls and 92% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 4,745 babies named Raylan.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 4,069 US boys were named Raylan; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 486. In 2025 that was about 1 in 5,492 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Raylan ranked highest in Arkansas in 2025, at #299 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Raelyn (15,864 babies since 1880), Raylene (4,065 babies since 1880), Raylynn (3,889 babies since 1880) and Raylen (2,422 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Rayleen and Raylean 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: Rayleen (1,255), Raylean (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 Raylan 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 30 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arkansas | 12 | #299 | #265 |
| Kentucky | 16 | #331 | #159 |
| Tennessee | 22 | #381 | #241 |
| Oklahoma | 11 | #418 | #408 |
| Alabama | 12 | #444 | #261 |
| Georgia | 18 | #580 | #370 |
| South Carolina | 8 | #593 | #520 |
| Mississippi | 5 | #598 | #214 |
| Missouri | 9 | #638 | #338 |
| Indiana | 10 | #655 | #383 |
| Virginia | 11 | #658 | #324 |
| Florida | 21 | #750 | #585 |
| North Carolina | 12 | #758 | #304 |
| Wisconsin | 6 | #765 | #474 |
| Ohio | 11 | #785 | #529 |
| Michigan | 8 | #887 | #623 |
| Texas | 29 | #890 | #444 |
| Pennsylvania | 9 | #899 | #922 |
| California | 19 | #1,109 | #791 |
| Washington | 5 | #1,117 | #457 |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,443 | #555 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 20 | #6,067 | 311 | #802 |
| 2024 | 32 | #4,454 | 370 | #717 |
| 2023 | 32 | #4,437 | 408 | #667 |
| 2022 | 40 | #3,809 | 372 | #710 |
| 2021 | 45 | #3,478 | 429 | #645 |
| 2020 | 35 | #4,062 | 446 | #614 |
| 2019 | 33 | #4,324 | 401 | #661 |
| 2018 | 34 | #4,222 | 425 | #629 |
| 2017 | 43 | #3,611 | 421 | #620 |
| 2016 | 32 | #4,503 | 486 | #572 |
| 2015 | 57 | #3,021 | 630 | #473 |
| 2014 | 42 | #3,704 | 566 | #500 |
| 2013 | 34 | #4,319 | 522 | #512 |
| 2012 | 28 | #5,081 | 487 | #538 |
| 2011 | 27 | #5,174 | 331 | #698 |
| 2010 | 14 | #8,613 | 132 | #1,305 |
| 2009 | 5 | #19,562 | 16 | #5,752 |
| 2008 | 9 | #12,374 | 9 | #8,855 |
| 2007 | 9 | #12,435 | 7 | #10,633 |
| 2006 | 8 | #13,340 | 11 | #7,313 |
| 2005 | — | — | 14 | #5,809 |
| 2004 | — | — | 10 | #7,399 |
| 2002 | — | — | 6 | #10,377 |
| 2001 | 7 | #13,164 | — | — |
| 1999 | — | — | 6 | #9,618 |
| 1998 | — | — | 6 | #9,377 |
| 1996 | — | — | 5 | #10,196 |
| 1994 | — | — | 6 | #8,567 |
| 1992 | — | — | 7 | #7,226 |
| 1983 | — | — | 5 | #7,059 |
| 1977 | — | — | 6 | #5,684 |
| 1975 | — | — | 5 | #6,118 |
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).