Rayaan

#7,885 for girls in 2025, 13 births · #2,230 for boys in 2025, 63 births
Given to boys 85.1% of the time

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Peak · boys
2022 · 78 births
Debut · boys
8 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
1,094
since 2000

Rayaan over time

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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020202021peak #5,653, 2015girlsboysat peak
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#7,88513#2,23063
2024#2,23664
2023#13,4626#2,06472
2022#7,63114#1,96578
2021#8,97811#2,30060
2020#11,0908#2,23561
2019#9,73610#2,17065
2018#9,80610#2,35556
2017#7,84014#3,12337
2016#10,11310#2,68945
2015#5,65323#2,30057
2014#10,9559#2,04469
2013#7,03117#2,56247
2012#9,71111#2,23858
2011#16,7645#3,99425
2010#13,4487#3,07237
2009#17,2945#3,55130
2008#9,47612#3,92126
2007#13,9247#3,89326
2006#3,08335
2005#4,19821
2004#6,97610
2003#3,83822
2002#4,91915
2001#8,3397
2000#7,4168
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First appearance
2000

The first year at least five boys were named Rayaan! It came in at #7,416, and was given to 8 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 2000–2001, when fewer than 9 boys a year got the name.

See more about Rayaan
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
  • 6 spots since 2024 (#2,236#2,230)
  • 5 spots since 2020 (#2,235#2,230)
  • 70 spots since 2015 (#2,300#2,230)
Rise & fade · boys
22 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 2000
  • Peaked 2022 at #1,965 (78 births)
  • Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 22,385
  • Highest: 1 in 22,385 boys born in 2022 were named Rayaan (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 27,112 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 2010s
  • 45.3% of all boys named Rayaan (496) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Never flipped
  • The majority has never changed
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Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
2000s200#3,083 (2006)#5,013
2010s496#2,044 (2014)#2,655
2020s398#1,965 (2022)#2,172

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.

Rayaan in 2021

girls
#8,978
11 births · 1 in 149,169 girls
boys
#2,300
60 births · 1 in 29,158 boys

Top girls' names in 2021

  1. #1Olivia17,847
  2. #2Emma15,549
  3. #3Charlotte13,368
  4. #4Amelia13,041
  5. #5Ava12,873
  6. #6Sophia12,585
  7. #7Isabella11,309
  8. #8Mia11,177
  9. #9Evelyn9,495
  10. #10Harper8,448
  11. #8,978Rayaan11

Top boys' names in 2021

  1. #1Liam20,424
  2. #2Noah18,919
  3. #3Oliver14,713
  4. #4Elijah12,845
  5. #5James12,474
  6. #6William12,170
  7. #7Benjamin11,895
  8. #8Lucas11,584
  9. #9Henry11,370
  10. #10Theodore9,600
  11. #2,300Rayaan60
More about 2021

girls

1,640,861 girls got a published name in 2021; 1 in 149,169 of them was named Rayaan, which outranked 49.2% 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).

Ranked beside Rayaan
  1. #8,464Zowie12
  2. #8,464Zuley12
  3. #8,464Zully12
  4. #8,978Rayaan11
  5. #8,978Aahna11
  6. #8,978Aanika11
  7. #8,978Aariana11
  8. #9,562Aafiyah10
  9. #9,562Aalivia10
  10. #9,562Aariel10

Tied with 583 names at #8,978; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2020
Risers
  1. 437Raya#932#495
  2. 396Wrenley#893#497
  3. 298Angelique#1,173#875
  4. 283Emberlynn#1,241#958
  5. 276Flora#924#648
Fallers
  1. 475Denisse#852#1,327
  2. 347Denise#876#1,223
  3. 267Karen#821#1,088
  4. 227Keily#854#1,081
  5. 227Nathalie#911#1,138

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

boys

1,749,482 boys got a published name in 2021; 1 in 29,158 of them was named Rayaan, which outranked 83.7% 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).

Ranked beside Rayaan
  1. #2,277Shamar61
  2. #2,277Thompson61
  3. #2,277Tyrus61
  4. #2,300Rayaan60
  5. #2,300Amaris60
  6. #2,300Aren60
  7. #2,300Azlan60
  8. #2,321Aarin59
  9. #2,321Antoni59
  10. #2,321Bohdi59

Tied with 20 names at #2,300; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2020
Risers
  1. 536Amiri#1,295#759
  2. 438Eliam#1,177#739
  3. 343Colter#972#629
  4. 333Ozzy#1,046#713
  5. 299Loyal#1,053#754
Fallers
  1. 352Jaxtyn#585#937
  2. 259Karsyn#698#957
  3. 231Xzavier#976#1,207
  4. 208Tristen#846#1,054
  5. 208Willie#992#1,200

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 2021