Raylon
Last seen for girls in 2020 at #8,406 · #3,036 for boys in 2025, 40 births
Given to boys 98.7% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2012 · 79 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,288since 1962
Raylon over time
Rank among boys' names. Raylon has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
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 | — | #3,036 | 40 | |
| 2024 | — | #2,873 | 44 | |
| 2023 | — | #2,614 | 50 | |
| 2022 | — | #2,563 | 53 | |
| 2021 | — | #2,373 | 57 | |
| 2020 | #8,406 | 12 | #2,212 | 62 |
| 2019 | — | #2,188 | 64 | |
| 2018 | — | #2,674 | 46 | |
| 2017 | #15,902 | 5 | #2,450 | 52 |
| 2016 | — | #2,228 | 60 | |
| 2015 | — | #1,853 | 79 | |
| 2014 | — | #2,345 | 55 | |
| 2013 | — | #2,336 | 54 | |
| 2012 | — | #1,849 | 79 | |
| 2011 | — | #2,852 | 41 | |
| 2010 | — | #3,377 | 32 | |
| 2009 | — | #4,748 | 20 | |
| 2008 | — | #4,540 | 21 | |
| 2007 | — | #5,434 | 16 | |
| 2006 | — | #5,072 | 17 | |
| 2005 | — | #5,278 | 15 | |
| 2004 | — | #4,005 | 22 | |
| 2003 | — | #5,558 | 13 | |
| 2002 | — | #7,055 | 9 | |
| 2001 | — | #4,476 | 17 | |
| 2000 | — | #5,297 | 13 | |
| 1999 | — | #4,762 | 14 | |
| 1998 | — | #3,708 | 19 | |
| 1997 | — | #4,059 | 16 | |
| 1996 | — | #4,613 | 13 | |
| 1995 | — | #4,280 | 14 | |
| 1994 | — | #5,868 | 9 | |
| 1993 | — | #4,227 | 14 | |
| 1992 | — | #4,327 | 13 | |
| 1991 | — | #6,519 | 7 | |
| 1990 | — | #4,673 | 11 | |
| 1989 | — | #5,165 | 9 | |
| 1988 | — | #3,915 | 12 | |
| 1987 | — | #4,573 | 9 | |
| 1986 | — | #5,332 | 7 | |
| 1985 | — | #4,698 | 8 | |
| 1984 | — | #5,561 | 6 | |
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| 1982 | — | #4,593 | 8 | |
| 1981 | — | #6,262 | 5 | |
| 1980 | — | #4,495 | 8 | |
| 1979 | — | #4,842 | 7 | |
| 1978 | — | #4,554 | 7 | |
| 1977 | — | #4,164 | 8 | |
| 1976 | — | #4,418 | 7 | |
| 1975 | — | #5,464 | 5 | |
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| 1967 | — | #2,760 | 9 | |
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| 1964 | — | #3,601 | 6 | |
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| 1962 | — | #3,640 | 6 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Raylon! It came in at #3,640, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1963, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Raylon is popular in 2015
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Kentucky#601 · 1 in 4,401
- Alabama#618 · 1 in 3,864
- Louisiana#707 · 1 in 4,246
- Tennessee#825 · 1 in 6,090
- Texas#1,150 · 1 in 11,755
Best ever in a state: #460 in Mississippi, 2016.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Kentucky | #601 | 5 | 1 in 4,401 |
| Alabama | #618 | 6 | 1 in 3,864 |
| Louisiana | #707 | 6 | 1 in 4,246 |
| Tennessee | #825 | 6 | 1 in 6,090 |
| Texas | #1,150 | 16 | 1 in 11,755 |
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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 Raylon
- 163 spots since 2024 (#2,873 → #3,036)
- 824 spots since 2020 (#2,212 → #3,036)
- 1,183 spots since 2015 (#1,853 → #3,036)
- Debuted 1962
- Peaked 2012 at #1,849 (79 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 24,012 boys born in 2012 were named Raylon (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 42,702 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 43.6% of all boys named Raylon (562) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1960s | 21 | #2,760 (1967) | #3,334 |
| 1970s | 34 | #4,164 (1977) | #4,688 |
| 1980s | 72 | #3,915 (1988) | #4,955 |
| 1990s | 130 | #3,708 (1998) | #4,704 |
| 2000s | 163 | #4,005 (2004) | #5,146 |
| 2010s | 562 | #1,849 (2012) | #2,415 |
| 2020s | 306 | #2,212 (2020) | #2,612 |
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.
Raylon in 2015
Top boys' names in 2015
More about 2015
boys
1,916,743 boys got a published name in 2015; 1 in 24,263 of them was named Raylon, which outranked 86.8% of the 14,059 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,846Jakhi80
- #1,846Jaydin80
- #1,846Masyn80
- #1,853Raylon79
- #1,853Ammon79
- #1,853Braelyn79
- #1,853Cadence79
- #1,870Aahil78
- #1,870Amen78
- #1,870Anay78
Tied with 16 names at #1,853; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.