Raylan
#5,917 for girls in 2025, 20 births · #800 for boys in 2025, 311 births
Given to boys 92.1% of the time
- 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
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 | #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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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 2021
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Kentucky#218 · 1 in 827
- Arkansas#224 · 1 in 812
- Tennessee#274 · 1 in 1,120
- Mississippi#284 · 1 in 1,090
- West Virginia#342 · 1 in 1,404
Best ever in a state: #120 in Kentucky, 2014.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kentucky | #218 | 24 | 1 in 827 |
| Arkansas | #224 | 16 | 1 in 812 |
| Tennessee | #274 | 32 | 1 in 1,120 |
| Mississippi | #284 | 11 | 1 in 1,090 |
| North Carolina | #342 | 32 | 1 in 1,595 |
| West Virginia | #342 | 5 | 1 in 1,404 |
| Alabama | #346 | 15 | 1 in 1,468 |
| Idaho | #406 | 5 | 1 in 1,603 |
| Kansas | #450 | 7 | 1 in 1,972 |
| Ohio | #458 | 22 | 1 in 2,464 |
| Washington | #463 | 15 | 1 in 2,227 |
| Georgia | #492 | 20 | 1 in 2,518 |
| Indiana | #493 | 14 | 1 in 2,340 |
| Iowa | #504 | 6 | 1 in 2,343 |
| Missouri | #537 | 10 | 1 in 2,854 |
| Oklahoma | #548 | 7 | 1 in 2,565 |
| South Carolina | #548 | 7 | 1 in 2,894 |
| Wisconsin | #549 | 8 | 1 in 3,041 |
| Virginia | #575 | 12 | 1 in 3,259 |
| Louisiana | #581 | 8 | 1 in 2,717 |
| Florida | #608 | 25 | 1 in 3,710 |
| Oregon | #608 | 5 | 1 in 3,180 |
| Minnesota | #644 | 7 | 1 in 3,591 |
| Utah | #680 | 5 | 1 in 3,840 |
| Texas | #696 | 38 | 1 in 4,503 |
| Illinois | #822 | 10 | 1 in 5,391 |
| Pennsylvania | #995 | 7 | 1 in 7,922 |
| Michigan | #1,005 | 6 | 1 in 7,161 |
| California | #1,162 | 17 | 1 in 11,140 |
| New York | #1,801 | 5 | 1 in 17,826 |
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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
- 84 spots since 2024 (#716 → #800)
- 186 spots since 2020 (#614 → #800)
- 327 spots since 2015 (#473 → #800)
- Biggest jump: 601 spots in 2011 (#1,299 → #698)
- Biggest drop: 99 spots in 2016 (#473 → #572)
- Debuted 1975
- Peaked 2015 at #473 (630 births)
- Births halved by 2025, 10 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 15 yrs · run 2011–2025
- 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%)
- 64.2% of all boys named Raylan (4,401) were born in this decade
- 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.
Raylan in 2021
Top girls' names in 2021
Top boys' names in 2021
More about 2021
girls
1,640,861 girls got a published name in 2021; 1 in 36,464 of them was named Raylan, which outranked 80.6% of the 17,676 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #3,390Tirzah46
- #3,390Xaila46
- #3,390Zakiya46
- #3,435Raylan45
- #3,435Aayat45
- #3,435Abbey45
- #3,435Adrielle45
- #3,491Abrianna44
- #3,491Adeya44
- #3,491Alanii44
Tied with 55 names at #3,435; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,749,482 boys got a published name in 2021; 1 in 4,078 of them was named Raylan, which outranked 95.4% of the 14,096 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).