Rayshawn
Last seen for girls in 1998 at #14,122 · #3,240 for boys in 2025, 36 births
Given to boys 95.7% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1991 · 125 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 4,004since 1969
Rayshawn over time
Rank among boys' names. Rayshawn has never cracked the top 900 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 | — | #3,240 | 36 | |
| 2024 | — | #4,433 | 23 | |
| 2023 | — | #3,005 | 41 | |
| 2022 | — | #2,830 | 45 | |
| 2021 | — | #2,862 | 43 | |
| 2020 | — | #2,759 | 44 | |
| 2019 | — | #2,626 | 49 | |
| 2018 | — | #2,674 | 46 | |
| 2017 | — | #2,217 | 60 | |
| 2016 | — | #2,437 | 52 | |
| 2015 | — | #2,386 | 54 | |
| 2014 | — | #2,138 | 64 | |
| 2013 | — | #1,878 | 75 | |
| 2012 | — | #1,711 | 88 | |
| 2011 | — | #1,780 | 81 | |
| 2010 | — | #1,588 | 99 | |
| 2009 | — | #1,731 | 89 | |
| 2008 | — | #1,692 | 90 | |
| 2007 | — | #1,516 | 104 | |
| 2006 | — | #1,265 | 132 | |
| 2005 | — | #1,619 | 84 | |
| 2004 | — | #1,440 | 97 | |
| 2003 | — | #1,324 | 104 | |
| 2002 | — | #1,406 | 93 | |
| 2001 | — | #1,178 | 116 | |
| 2000 | — | #1,152 | 120 | |
| 1999 | — | #1,068 | 127 | |
| 1998 | #14,122 | 5 | #1,105 | 116 |
| 1997 | #10,836 | 7 | #1,000 | 128 |
| 1996 | #8,812 | 9 | #1,167 | 100 |
| 1995 | #9,553 | 8 | #978 | 129 |
| 1994 | — | #1,005 | 122 | |
| 1993 | #11,780 | 6 | #992 | 120 |
| 1992 | #7,512 | 11 | #1,033 | 112 |
| 1991 | #8,588 | 9 | #954 | 125 |
| 1990 | #5,835 | 15 | #1,042 | 103 |
| 1989 | #5,545 | 15 | #1,030 | 100 |
| 1988 | #7,691 | 9 | #1,108 | 81 |
| 1987 | #7,987 | 8 | #1,067 | 80 |
| 1986 | #5,188 | 14 | #1,028 | 81 |
| 1985 | — | #975 | 87 | |
| 1984 | #8,153 | 7 | #1,320 | 50 |
| 1983 | — | #1,399 | 45 | |
| 1982 | #10,517 | 5 | #1,677 | 35 |
| 1981 | — | #1,270 | 52 | |
| 1980 | — | #1,391 | 46 | |
| 1979 | #10,210 | 5 | #1,532 | 38 |
| 1978 | #6,948 | 8 | #1,718 | 31 |
| 1977 | #8,444 | 6 | #1,571 | 35 |
| 1976 | #9,284 | 5 | #1,572 | 34 |
| 1975 | — | #1,704 | 29 | |
| 1974 | #7,680 | 6 | #1,983 | 22 |
| 1973 | — | #2,513 | 15 | |
| 1972 | #8,292 | 5 | #2,659 | 13 |
| 1971 | #6,006 | 8 | #2,558 | 14 |
| 1970 | #6,362 | 7 | — | |
| 1969 | — | #4,404 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Rayshawn! It came in at #4,404, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1969–1970, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Rayshawn is popular in 2008
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Michigan#551 · 1 in 3,954
- Ohio#706 · 1 in 5,858
- Louisiana#775 · 1 in 5,030
- New York#1,125 · 1 in 10,912
- Illinois#1,208 · 1 in 12,459
Best ever in a state: #317 in Ohio, 1992.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Michigan | #551 | 13 | 1 in 3,954 |
| Ohio | #706 | 11 | 1 in 5,858 |
| Louisiana | #775 | 5 | 1 in 5,030 |
| New York | #1,125 | 10 | 1 in 10,912 |
| Illinois | #1,208 | 6 | 1 in 12,459 |
| Georgia | #1,274 | 5 | 1 in 12,237 |
| Florida | #1,431 | 6 | 1 in 16,751 |
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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 Rayshawn
- 1,193 spots since 2024 (#4,433 → #3,240)
- 481 spots since 2020 (#2,759 → #3,240)
- 854 spots since 2015 (#2,386 → #3,240)
- Biggest jump: 345 spots in 1985 (#1,320 → #975)
- Biggest drop: 189 spots in 1996 (#978 → #1,167)
- Debuted 1969
- Peaked 1991 at #954 (125 births)
- Births halved by 2015, 24 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 5 yrs · 1985–1997
- Highest: 1 in 14,728 boys born in 1997 were named Rayshawn (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 47,447 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #954 in 1991, was only 1 in 16,163 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 29.5% of all boys named Rayshawn (1,182) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 5 | #4,404 (1969) | #4,404 |
| 1970s | 231 | #1,532 (1979) | #1,979 |
| 1980s | 657 | #975 (1985) | #1,227 |
| 1990s | 1,182 | #954 (1991) | #1,034 |
| 2000s | 1,029 | #1,152 (2000) | #1,432 |
| 2010s | 668 | #1,588 (2010) | #2,144 |
| 2020s | 232 | #2,759 (2020) | #3,188 |
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.
Rayshawn in 2008
Top boys' names in 2008
More about 2008
boys
2,040,150 boys got a published name in 2008; 1 in 22,668 of them was named Rayshawn, which outranked 88.4% 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).
- #1,679Syncere91
- #1,679Yakov91
- #1,679Yasir91
- #1,692Rayshawn90
- #1,692Ansh90
- #1,692Cal90
- #1,692Daren90
- #1,708Akeem89
- #1,708Akshay89
- #1,708Azriel89
Tied with 15 names at #1,692; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.