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Raylen: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 97 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,531 in 2014.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,531 in 2014; #1,696 in 2025. About 69% of babies named Raylen in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,696 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2014, at #1,531.
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Raylen: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 97 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,531 in 2014 · most boys in one year: 107 (2020).
In 2025, 97 US boys were named Raylen, making it the 1,696th most common boys’ name of the year, up 120 places from #1,816 in 2024. That is 7 more than the 90 boys named Raylen in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,531, reached in 2014. The most boys given the name in a single year was 107, in 2020. For comparison, it was #1,544 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 43 US girls were named Raylen, making it the 3,563rd most common girls’ name of the year, up 456 places from #4,019 in 2024. That is 6 more than the 37 girls named Raylen in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #3,081, reached in 2015. That year also had the most girls given the name: 55. For comparison, it was #3,081 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Raylen in 31 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1962 with 5 babies. In all, 2,422 US babies have been given the name, 33% of them girls and 67% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,307 babies named Raylen.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 900 US boys were named Raylen; the busiest of those years was 2020, with 107. In 2025 that was about 1 in 17,609 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Raylen ranked highest in Tennessee in 2025, at #827 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), Raylan (7,442 babies since 1880), Raylene (4,065 babies since 1880) and Raylynn (3,889 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Raleen and Raileen are summarised on this page.
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Rare spellings summarised here: Raleen (5), Raileen (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 Raylen 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 44 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tennessee | 8 | #827 | #663 |
| Georgia | 10 | #905 | #1,078 |
| Illinois | 7 | #1,111 | — |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,430 | #1,345 |
| Florida | 5 | #2,033 | — |
| California | 7 | #2,164 | #2,497 |
| Texas | 6 | #2,499 | #1,622 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 43 | #3,563 | 97 | #1,696 |
| 2024 | 37 | #4,019 | 90 | #1,816 |
| 2023 | 30 | #4,635 | 72 | #2,073 |
| 2022 | 27 | #4,999 | 91 | #1,800 |
| 2021 | 36 | #4,072 | 96 | #1,706 |
| 2020 | 44 | #3,486 | 107 | #1,553 |
| 2019 | 49 | #3,264 | 93 | #1,711 |
| 2018 | 39 | #3,830 | 80 | #1,884 |
| 2017 | 43 | #3,612 | 81 | #1,840 |
| 2016 | 34 | #4,332 | 93 | #1,692 |
| 2015 | 55 | #3,081 | 106 | #1,544 |
| 2014 | 49 | #3,311 | 105 | #1,531 |
| 2013 | 46 | #3,449 | 96 | #1,610 |
| 2012 | 46 | #3,515 | 102 | #1,559 |
| 2011 | 32 | #4,549 | 86 | #1,728 |
| 2010 | 30 | #4,836 | 42 | #2,860 |
| 2009 | 39 | #4,002 | 26 | #4,014 |
| 2008 | 13 | #9,372 | 18 | #5,212 |
| 2007 | 27 | #5,354 | 19 | #4,940 |
| 2006 | 21 | #6,300 | 12 | #6,813 |
| 2005 | 9 | #11,611 | 13 | #6,142 |
| 2004 | 7 | #13,863 | 14 | #5,731 |
| 2003 | 5 | #17,780 | 9 | #7,698 |
| 2002 | 13 | #8,184 | 9 | #7,488 |
| 2001 | 6 | #14,909 | 5 | #11,905 |
| 2000 | 14 | #7,489 | 11 | #6,219 |
| 1999 | 11 | #8,666 | 11 | #5,959 |
| 1998 | 6 | #13,728 | 10 | #6,193 |
| 1997 | — | — | 7 | #7,932 |
| 1990 | — | — | 5 | #9,191 |
| 1962 | — | — | 5 | #4,501 |
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).