Rayan
#4,067 for girls in 2025, 35 births · #588 for boys in 2025, 499 births
Given to boys 89.4% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2023 · 518 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 8,895since 1973
Rayan over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #4,067 | 35 | #588 | 499 |
| 2024 | #5,799 | 21 | #578 | 493 |
| 2023 | #5,960 | 20 | #561 | 518 |
| 2022 | #3,536 | 44 | #627 | 445 |
| 2021 | #4,167 | 34 | #665 | 407 |
| 2020 | #4,358 | 31 | #617 | 442 |
| 2019 | #2,923 | 56 | #562 | 497 |
| 2018 | #3,050 | 53 | #563 | 489 |
| 2017 | #3,091 | 52 | #574 | 476 |
| 2016 | #3,010 | 55 | #561 | 513 |
| 2015 | #2,846 | 61 | #584 | 476 |
| 2014 | #3,112 | 53 | #608 | 440 |
| 2013 | #3,465 | 45 | #673 | 359 |
| 2012 | #3,213 | 51 | #656 | 362 |
| 2011 | #3,781 | 40 | #734 | 309 |
| 2010 | #3,816 | 40 | #761 | 295 |
| 2009 | #4,013 | 38 | #798 | 279 |
| 2008 | #4,006 | 39 | #872 | 243 |
| 2007 | #4,944 | 29 | #906 | 220 |
| 2006 | #6,592 | 19 | #1,008 | 182 |
| 2005 | #4,118 | 34 | #1,191 | 134 |
| 2004 | #4,707 | 28 | #1,425 | 99 |
| 2003 | #4,804 | 26 | #1,310 | 106 |
| 2002 | #6,392 | 17 | #1,571 | 78 |
| 2001 | #4,564 | 26 | #2,027 | 52 |
| 2000 | #5,705 | 19 | #1,993 | 51 |
| 1999 | #4,576 | 24 | #2,023 | 47 |
| 1998 | #10,122 | 8 | #2,711 | 30 |
| 1997 | #9,802 | 8 | #2,903 | 26 |
| 1996 | #7,574 | 11 | #2,747 | 27 |
| 1995 | #8,079 | 10 | #2,762 | 26 |
| 1994 | #7,097 | 12 | #2,951 | 24 |
| 1993 | — | #3,246 | 20 | |
| 1992 | — | #2,909 | 23 | |
| 1991 | #9,336 | 8 | #2,683 | 25 |
| 1990 | #12,958 | 5 | #3,058 | 20 |
| 1989 | — | #3,205 | 18 | |
| 1988 | #10,386 | 6 | #2,765 | 20 |
| 1987 | — | #3,959 | 11 | |
| 1986 | — | #2,360 | 23 | |
| 1985 | — | #3,216 | 14 | |
| 1984 | — | #3,459 | 12 | |
| 1983 | — | #3,884 | 10 | |
| 1982 | — | #3,282 | 13 | |
| 1981 | — | #4,509 | 8 | |
| 1980 | — | #5,525 | 6 | |
| 1979 | — | #3,810 | 10 | |
| 1978 | — | #4,554 | 7 | |
| 1977 | — | #5,845 | 5 | |
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| 1973 | — | #4,505 | 6 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Rayan! It came in at #4,505, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1974–1977, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Rayan is popular in 2008
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Massachusetts#300 · 1 in 1,884
- New Jersey#389 · 1 in 2,533
- New York#419 · 1 in 2,798
- Virginia#452 · 1 in 3,070
- Maryland#546 · 1 in 3,738
Best ever in a state: #139 in District of Columbia, 2025.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Massachusetts | #300 | 17 | 1 in 1,884 |
| New Jersey | #389 | 18 | 1 in 2,533 |
| New York | #419 | 39 | 1 in 2,798 |
| Virginia | #452 | 14 | 1 in 3,070 |
| Maryland | #546 | 8 | 1 in 3,738 |
| Illinois | #564 | 19 | 1 in 3,934 |
| Florida | #594 | 24 | 1 in 4,188 |
| Minnesota | #714 | 5 | 1 in 5,967 |
| Michigan | #727 | 9 | 1 in 5,711 |
| California | #747 | 33 | 1 in 7,702 |
| Pennsylvania | #913 | 7 | 1 in 9,124 |
| Ohio | #928 | 7 | 1 in 9,205 |
| North Carolina | #978 | 6 | 1 in 9,286 |
| Texas | #1,288 | 12 | 1 in 15,766 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Rayan
- 10 spots since 2024 (#578 → #588)
- 29 spots since 2020 (#617 → #588)
- 4 spots since 2015 (#584 → #588)
- Biggest jump: 102 spots in 2007 (#1,008 → #906)
- Biggest drop: 55 spots in 2020 (#562 → #617)
- Debuted 1973
- Peaked 2023 at #561 (518 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 19 yrs · run 2007–2025
- Highest: 1 in 3,302 boys born in 2023 were named Rayan (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 3,423 boys born in 2025 (0.03%)
- 47.4% of all boys named Rayan (4,216) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 28 | #3,810 (1979) | #4,679 |
| 1980s | 135 | #2,360 (1986) | #3,616 |
| 1990s | 268 | #2,023 (1999) | #2,799 |
| 2000s | 1,444 | #798 (2009) | #1,310 |
| 2010s | 4,216 | #561 (2016) | #628 |
| 2020s | 2,804 | #561 (2023) | #606 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Rayan in 2008
Top girls' names in 2008
Top boys' names in 2008
More about 2008
girls
1,890,938 girls got a published name in 2008; 1 in 48,486 of them was named Rayan, which outranked 80.4% of the 20,482 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #3,936Zaara40
- #3,936Zeynep40
- #3,936Ziah40
- #4,006Rayan39
- #4,006Aalyah39
- #4,006Adalina39
- #4,006Aiko39
- #4,089Abilene38
- #4,089Agatha38
- #4,089Ahmya38
Tied with 82 names at #4,006; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
2,040,150 boys got a published name in 2008; 1 in 8,396 of them was named Rayan, which outranked 94.0% of the 14,625 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).