Meaning not yet researched.
Rayshawn: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 36 in 2025. Its best rank was #958 in 1991.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #958 in 1991; #3,296 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Rayshawn in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,296 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1991, at #958.
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Rayshawn: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 36 boys in 2025. Peak: #958 in 1991 · most boys in one year: 132 (2006).
In 2025, 36 US boys were named Rayshawn, making it the 3,296th most common boys’ name of the year, up 1,235 places from #4,531 in 2024. That is 13 more than the 23 boys named Rayshawn in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #958, reached in 1991. The most boys given the name in a single year was 132, in 2006. For comparison, it was #2,403 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Rayshawn in 57 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1969 with 5 babies. In all, 4,182 US babies have been given the name, 4.3% of them girls and 96% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 1,252 babies named Rayshawn.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 439 US boys were named Rayshawn; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 60. In 2025 that was about 1 in 47,447 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Rashawn (7,117 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 Rayshawn 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 | — | — | 36 | #3,296 |
| 2024 | — | — | 23 | #4,531 |
| 2023 | — | — | 41 | #3,050 |
| 2022 | — | — | 45 | #2,859 |
| 2021 | — | — | 43 | #2,902 |
| 2020 | — | — | 44 | #2,795 |
| 2019 | — | — | 49 | #2,650 |
| 2018 | — | — | 46 | #2,697 |
| 2017 | — | — | 60 | #2,232 |
| 2016 | — | — | 52 | #2,467 |
| 2015 | — | — | 54 | #2,403 |
| 2014 | — | — | 64 | #2,151 |
| 2013 | — | — | 75 | #1,894 |
| 2012 | — | — | 88 | #1,727 |
| 2011 | — | — | 81 | #1,793 |
| 2010 | — | — | 99 | #1,597 |
| 2009 | — | — | 89 | #1,741 |
| 2008 | — | — | 90 | #1,705 |
| 2007 | — | — | 104 | #1,524 |
| 2006 | — | — | 132 | #1,271 |
| 2005 | — | — | 84 | #1,630 |
| 2004 | — | — | 97 | #1,445 |
| 2003 | — | — | 104 | #1,333 |
| 2002 | — | — | 93 | #1,411 |
| 2001 | — | — | 116 | #1,183 |
| 2000 | — | — | 120 | #1,160 |
| 1999 | — | — | 127 | #1,070 |
| 1998 | 5 | #16,003 | 116 | #1,109 |
| 1997 | 7 | #11,784 | 128 | #1,004 |
| 1996 | 9 | #9,394 | 100 | #1,171 |
| 1995 | 8 | #10,279 | 129 | #980 |
| 1994 | — | — | 122 | #1,008 |
| 1993 | 6 | #13,038 | 120 | #997 |
| 1992 | 11 | #7,906 | 112 | #1,035 |
| 1991 | 9 | #9,157 | 125 | #958 |
| 1990 | 15 | #6,063 | 103 | #1,047 |
| 1989 | 15 | #5,773 | 100 | #1,034 |
| 1988 | 9 | #8,206 | 81 | #1,116 |
| 1987 | 8 | #8,546 | 80 | #1,075 |
| 1986 | 14 | #5,389 | 81 | #1,036 |
| 1985 | — | — | 87 | #981 |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,888 | 50 | #1,346 |
| 1983 | — | — | 45 | #1,421 |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,825 | 35 | #1,695 |
| 1981 | — | — | 52 | #1,288 |
| 1980 | — | — | 46 | #1,405 |
| 1979 | 5 | #11,451 | 38 | #1,558 |
| 1978 | 8 | #7,455 | 31 | #1,745 |
| 1977 | 6 | #9,330 | 35 | #1,600 |
| 1976 | 5 | #10,461 | 34 | #1,598 |
| 1975 | — | — | 29 | #1,746 |
| 1974 | 6 | #8,448 | 22 | #2,035 |
| 1973 | — | — | 15 | #2,581 |
| 1972 | 5 | #9,253 | 13 | #2,792 |
| 1971 | 8 | #6,449 | 14 | #2,661 |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,869 | — | — |
| 1969 | — | — | 5 | #4,878 |
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).