Rayan
#4,067 for girls in 2025, 35 births · #588 for boys in 2025, 499 births
Given to boys 89.4% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2023 · 518 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 8,895since 1973
Rayan over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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 | #4,067 | 35 | #588 | 499 |
| 2024 | #5,799 | 21 | #578 | 493 |
| 2023 | #5,960 | 20 | #561 | 518 |
| 2022 | #3,536 | 44 | #627 | 445 |
| 2021 | #4,167 | 34 | #665 | 407 |
| 2020 | #4,358 | 31 | #617 | 442 |
| 2019 | #2,923 | 56 | #562 | 497 |
| 2018 | #3,050 | 53 | #563 | 489 |
| 2017 | #3,091 | 52 | #574 | 476 |
| 2016 | #3,010 | 55 | #561 | 513 |
| 2015 | #2,846 | 61 | #584 | 476 |
| 2014 | #3,112 | 53 | #608 | 440 |
| 2013 | #3,465 | 45 | #673 | 359 |
| 2012 | #3,213 | 51 | #656 | 362 |
| 2011 | #3,781 | 40 | #734 | 309 |
| 2010 | #3,816 | 40 | #761 | 295 |
| 2009 | #4,013 | 38 | #798 | 279 |
| 2008 | #4,006 | 39 | #872 | 243 |
| 2007 | #4,944 | 29 | #906 | 220 |
| 2006 | #6,592 | 19 | #1,008 | 182 |
| 2005 | #4,118 | 34 | #1,191 | 134 |
| 2004 | #4,707 | 28 | #1,425 | 99 |
| 2003 | #4,804 | 26 | #1,310 | 106 |
| 2002 | #6,392 | 17 | #1,571 | 78 |
| 2001 | #4,564 | 26 | #2,027 | 52 |
| 2000 | #5,705 | 19 | #1,993 | 51 |
| 1999 | #4,576 | 24 | #2,023 | 47 |
| 1998 | #10,122 | 8 | #2,711 | 30 |
| 1997 | #9,802 | 8 | #2,903 | 26 |
| 1996 | #7,574 | 11 | #2,747 | 27 |
| 1995 | #8,079 | 10 | #2,762 | 26 |
| 1994 | #7,097 | 12 | #2,951 | 24 |
| 1993 | — | #3,246 | 20 | |
| 1992 | — | #2,909 | 23 | |
| 1991 | #9,336 | 8 | #2,683 | 25 |
| 1990 | #12,958 | 5 | #3,058 | 20 |
| 1989 | — | #3,205 | 18 | |
| 1988 | #10,386 | 6 | #2,765 | 20 |
| 1987 | — | #3,959 | 11 | |
| 1986 | — | #2,360 | 23 | |
| 1985 | — | #3,216 | 14 | |
| 1984 | — | #3,459 | 12 | |
| 1983 | — | #3,884 | 10 | |
| 1982 | — | #3,282 | 13 | |
| 1981 | — | #4,509 | 8 | |
| 1980 | — | #5,525 | 6 | |
| 1979 | — | #3,810 | 10 | |
| 1978 | — | #4,554 | 7 | |
| 1977 | — | #5,845 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Rayan! It came in at #4,505, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1974–1977, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Rayan
- 10 spots since 2024 (#578 → #588)
- 29 spots since 2020 (#617 → #588)
- 4 spots since 2015 (#584 → #588)
- Biggest jump: 102 spots in 2007 (#1,008 → #906)
- Biggest drop: 55 spots in 2020 (#562 → #617)
- Debuted 1973
- Peaked 2023 at #561 (518 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 19 yrs · run 2007–2025
- Highest: 1 in 3,302 boys born in 2023 were named Rayan (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 3,423 boys born in 2025 (0.03%)
- 47.4% of all boys named Rayan (4,216) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 28 | #3,810 (1979) | #4,679 |
| 1980s | 135 | #2,360 (1986) | #3,616 |
| 1990s | 268 | #2,023 (1999) | #2,799 |
| 2000s | 1,444 | #798 (2009) | #1,310 |
| 2010s | 4,216 | #561 (2016) | #628 |
| 2020s | 2,804 | #561 (2023) | #606 |
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.
Rayan in 1973
Top boys' names in 1973
More about 1973
boys
1,558,576 boys got a published name in 1973; 1 in 259,763 of them was named Rayan, which outranked 23.3% of the 5,877 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 26.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #4,054Zakary7
- #4,054Zalmen7
- #4,054Zubin7
- #4,505Rayan6
- #4,505Abdu6
- #4,505Abelino6
- #4,505Able6
- #5,101Abdalla5
- #5,101Abiel5
- #5,101Abrahm5
Tied with 595 names at #4,505; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↓ 669Jabbar#917 → #1,586
- ↓ 361Wes#993 → #1,354
- ↓ 326Paris#797 → #1,123
- ↓ 284Christophe#984 → #1,268
- ↓ 272Bennett#851 → #1,123
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.