Raylan
- #5,917 for girls in 2025, 20 births
- #800 for boys in 2025, 311 births
- Given to boys 92.1% of the time
Showing
- Peak · boys
- 2015 · 630 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 6,856since 1975
Raylan over time
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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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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 | #5,917 | 20 | #800 | 311 |
| 2024 | #4,387 | 32 | #716 | 370 |
| 2023 | #4,363 | 32 | #666 | 408 |
| 2022 | #3,765 | 40 | #709 | 372 |
| 2021 | #3,435 | 45 | #644 | 429 |
| 2020 | #4,005 | 35 | #614 | 446 |
| 2019 | #4,260 | 33 | #659 | 401 |
| 2018 | #4,144 | 34 | #627 | 425 |
| 2017 | #3,552 | 43 | #619 | 421 |
| 2016 | #4,423 | 32 | #572 | 486 |
| 2015 | #3,001 | 57 | #473 | 630 |
| 2014 | #3,652 | 42 | #498 | 566 |
| 2013 | #4,243 | 34 | #512 | 522 |
| 2012 | #4,957 | 28 | #536 | 487 |
| 2011 | #5,063 | 27 | #698 | 331 |
| 2010 | #8,271 | 14 | #1,299 | 132 |
| 2009 | #17,294 | 5 | #5,554 | 16 |
| 2008 | #11,599 | 9 | #8,324 | 9 |
| 2007 | #11,630 | 9 | #9,788 | 7 |
| 2006 | #12,420 | 8 | #6,904 | 11 |
| 2005 | — | #5,578 | 14 | |
| 2004 | — | #6,976 | 10 | |
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| 2002 | — | #9,392 | 6 | |
| 2001 | #12,056 | 7 | — | |
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| 1999 | — | #8,704 | 6 | |
| 1998 | — | #8,479 | 6 | |
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| 1996 | — | #9,015 | 5 | |
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| 1994 | — | #7,770 | 6 | |
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| 1992 | — | #6,670 | 7 | |
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| 1977 | — | #5,123 | 6 | |
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| 1975 | — | #5,464 | 5 | |
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First appearance
1975
The first year at least five boys were named Raylan! It came in at #5,464, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1975–1976, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Raylan is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arkansas | #284 | 12 | 1 in 1,049 |
| Kentucky | #319 | 16 | 1 in 1,284 |
| Tennessee | #372 | 22 | 1 in 1,671 |
| Oklahoma | #395 | 11 | 1 in 1,607 |
| Alabama | #422 | 12 | 1 in 1,793 |
| Mississippi | #522 | 5 | 1 in 2,167 |
| South Carolina | #552 | 8 | 1 in 2,650 |
| Georgia | #566 | 18 | 1 in 2,790 |
| Missouri | #597 | 9 | 1 in 3,090 |
| Indiana | #621 | 10 | 1 in 3,166 |
| Virginia | #627 | 11 | 1 in 3,387 |
| Wisconsin | #678 | 6 | 1 in 3,905 |
| North Carolina | #718 | 12 | 1 in 4,289 |
| Florida | #729 | 21 | 1 in 4,549 |
| Ohio | #750 | 11 | 1 in 4,776 |
| Michigan | #829 | 8 | 1 in 5,024 |
| Pennsylvania | #846 | 9 | 1 in 5,807 |
| Texas | #876 | 29 | 1 in 6,036 |
| Washington | #999 | 5 | 1 in 6,560 |
| California | #1,085 | 19 | 1 in 9,235 |
| Illinois | #1,280 | 5 | 1 in 9,910 |
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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 Raylan
Momentum · boys
Falling
- 186 spots since 2020 (#614 → #800)
- Biggest jump: 601 spots in 2011
- Biggest drop: 99 spots in 2016
Rise & fade · boys
40 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1975
- Peaked 2015 at #473 (630 births)
- Births halved by 2025, 10 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 15 yrs
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 15 yrs · run 2011–2025
Share of babies · boys
1 in 3,042
- Highest: 1 in 3,042 boys born in 2015 were named Raylan (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 5,492 boys born in 2025 (0.02%)
Era · boys
The 2010s
- 64.2% of all boys named Raylan (4,401) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2009
- Mostly girls until 2008, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 11 | #5,123 (1977) | #5,294 |
| 1980s | 5 | #6,238 (1983) | #6,238 |
| 1990s | 30 | #6,670 (1992) | #8,128 |
| 2000s | 73 | #5,554 (2009) | #7,502 |
| 2010s | 4,401 | #473 (2015) | #649 |
| 2020s | 2,336 | #614 (2020) | #692 |
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.
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