Meaning not yet researched.
Raylon: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 40 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,858 in 2012.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,858 in 2012; #3,076 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Raylon in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,076 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2012, at #1,858.
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Raylon: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 40 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,858 in 2012 · most boys in one year: 79 (2015).
In 2025, 40 US boys were named Raylon, making it the 3,076th most common boys’ name of the year, down 174 places from #2,902 in 2024. That is 4 fewer than the 44 boys named Raylon in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,858, reached in 2012. The most boys given the name in a single year was 79, in 2015. For comparison, it was #1,868 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Raylon in 53 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1962 with 6 babies. In all, 1,305 US babies have been given the name, 1.3% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 567 babies named Raylon.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 528 US boys were named Raylon; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 64. In 2025 that was about 1 in 42,702 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
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).
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.
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 Raylon 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 | — | — | 40 | #3,076 |
| 2024 | — | — | 44 | #2,902 |
| 2023 | — | — | 50 | #2,647 |
| 2022 | — | — | 53 | #2,584 |
| 2021 | — | — | 57 | #2,405 |
| 2020 | 12 | #8,836 | 62 | #2,228 |
| 2019 | — | — | 64 | #2,208 |
| 2018 | — | — | 46 | #2,696 |
| 2017 | 5 | #17,891 | 52 | #2,480 |
| 2016 | — | — | 60 | #2,250 |
| 2015 | — | — | 79 | #1,868 |
| 2014 | — | — | 55 | #2,364 |
| 2013 | — | — | 54 | #2,356 |
| 2012 | — | — | 79 | #1,858 |
| 2011 | — | — | 41 | #2,890 |
| 2010 | — | — | 32 | #3,429 |
| 2009 | — | — | 20 | #4,890 |
| 2008 | — | — | 21 | #4,668 |
| 2007 | — | — | 16 | #5,625 |
| 2006 | — | — | 17 | #5,255 |
| 2005 | — | — | 15 | #5,518 |
| 2004 | — | — | 22 | #4,102 |
| 2003 | — | — | 13 | #5,811 |
| 2002 | — | — | 9 | #7,489 |
| 2001 | — | — | 17 | #4,637 |
| 2000 | — | — | 13 | #5,514 |
| 1999 | — | — | 14 | #4,973 |
| 1998 | — | — | 19 | #3,816 |
| 1997 | — | — | 16 | #4,195 |
| 1996 | — | — | 13 | #4,823 |
| 1995 | — | — | 14 | #4,453 |
| 1994 | — | — | 9 | #6,238 |
| 1993 | — | — | 14 | #4,397 |
| 1992 | — | — | 13 | #4,520 |
| 1991 | — | — | 7 | #7,112 |
| 1990 | — | — | 11 | #4,922 |
| 1989 | — | — | 9 | #5,497 |
| 1988 | — | — | 12 | #4,109 |
| 1987 | — | — | 9 | #4,874 |
| 1986 | — | — | 7 | #5,793 |
| 1985 | — | — | 8 | #5,049 |
| 1984 | — | — | 6 | #6,148 |
| 1982 | — | — | 8 | #4,906 |
| 1981 | — | — | 5 | #7,043 |
| 1980 | — | — | 8 | #4,846 |
| 1979 | — | — | 7 | #5,242 |
| 1978 | — | — | 7 | #4,933 |
| 1977 | — | — | 8 | #4,485 |
| 1976 | — | — | 7 | #4,803 |
| 1975 | — | — | 5 | #6,119 |
| 1967 | — | — | 9 | #2,937 |
| 1964 | — | — | 6 | #3,940 |
| 1962 | — | — | 6 | #3,940 |
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).