Rayan

Where Rayan comes from

From Arabic رَيَّان (rayyān)
— Wiktionary's entry for Rayan
  • Arabic
Along the way
  1. 1973
    First appearance
    #4,505 among boys, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 2003
    Rayan Cherki born
    French footballer
  3. 2006
    Rayan born
    Brazilian footballer
  4. 2023
    Peak, #561
    518 babies named Rayan — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Arabic.
Namesakes
  • Rayan Cherki · French footballer, born 2003
  • Rayan · Brazilian footballer, born 2006
  • Rayan Aït-Nouri · Algerian-French footballer, born 2001
  • Rayan Helal · French cyclist, born 1999
  • Rayan Elloumi · Tunisian-Canadian soccer player, born 2007

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.