Rayonna

Where Rayonna comes from

The dictionaries list Rayonna as a given name — a female given name originating as a coinage, of African-American usage — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1990
    First appearance
    #10,193 among girls, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 2000
    Peak, #2,854
    50 babies named Rayonna — more than any year before or since.
  3. 2015
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #8,008.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name originating as a coinage, of African-American usage.
Namesakes

We look up famous namesakes for names that have made the top 1,000. Rayonna hasn't yet.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.