Rayan

#4,067 for girls in 2025, 35 births · #588 for boys in 2025, 499 births
Given to boys 89.4% of the time

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Peak · boys
#561
2023 · 518 births
Debut · boys
1973
6 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
8,895
since 1973

Rayan over time

girlsboys

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

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020202003peak #2,846, 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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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#4,06735#588499
2024#5,79921#578493
2023#5,96020#561518
2022#3,53644#627445
2021#4,16734#665407
2020#4,35831#617442
2019#2,92356#562497
2018#3,05053#563489
2017#3,09152#574476
2016#3,01055#561513
2015#2,84661#584476
2014#3,11253#608440
2013#3,46545#673359
2012#3,21351#656362
2011#3,78140#734309
2010#3,81640#761295
2009#4,01338#798279
2008#4,00639#872243
2007#4,94429#906220
2006#6,59219#1,008182
2005#4,11834#1,191134
2004#4,70728#1,42599
2003#4,80426#1,310106
2002#6,39217#1,57178
2001#4,56426#2,02752
2000#5,70519#1,99351
1999#4,57624#2,02347
1998#10,1228#2,71130
1997#9,8028#2,90326
1996#7,57411#2,74727
1995#8,07910#2,76226
1994#7,09712#2,95124
1993—#3,24620
1992—#2,90923
1991#9,3368#2,68325
1990#12,9585#3,05820
1989—#3,20518
1988#10,3866#2,76520
1987—#3,95911
1986—#2,36023
1985—#3,21614
1984—#3,45912
1983—#3,88410
1982—#3,28213
1981—#4,5098
1980—#5,5256
1979—#3,81010
1978—#4,5547
1977—#5,8455
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First appearance
1973

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.

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Momentum · boys
Holding steady
  • 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)
Rise & fade · boys
50 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1973
  • Peaked 2023 at #561 (518 births)
  • Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 19 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 19 yrs · run 2007–2025
Share of babies · boys
1 in 3,302
  • 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%)
Era · boys
The 2010s
  • 47.4% of all boys named Rayan (4,216) 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
1970s28#3,810 (1979)#4,679
1980s135#2,360 (1986)#3,616
1990s268#2,023 (1999)#2,799
2000s1,444#798 (2009)#1,310
2010s4,216#561 (2016)#628
2020s2,804#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 2003

girls
#4,804
26 births · 1 in 70,275 girls
boys
#1,310
106 births · 1 in 18,635 boys

Top girls' names in 2003

  1. #1Emily25,693
  2. #2Emma22,719
  3. #3Madison20,201
  4. #4Hannah17,638
  5. #5Olivia16,154
  6. #6Abigail15,932
  7. #7Alexis14,867
  8. #8Ashley14,519
  9. #9Elizabeth14,123
  10. #10Samantha13,870
  11. #4,804Rayan26

Top boys' names in 2003

  1. #1Jacob29,658
  2. #2Michael27,129
  3. #3Joshua25,106
  4. #4Matthew24,011
  5. #5Andrew22,162
  6. #6Joseph21,394
  7. #7Ethan21,362
  8. #8Daniel21,072
  9. #9Christopher20,753
  10. #10Anthony20,149
  11. #1,310Rayan106
More about 2003

girls

1,827,145 girls got a published name in 2003; 1 in 70,275 of them was named Rayan, which outranked 73.9% of the 18,439 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Rayan
  1. #4,668Ty27
  2. #4,668Victory27
  3. #4,668Wilma27
  4. #4,804Rayan26
  5. #4,804Adi26
  6. #4,804Alaynah26
  7. #4,804Alayshia26
  8. #4,943Aarushi25
  9. #4,943Aden25
  10. #4,943Aijah25

Tied with 138 names at #4,804; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2002
Risers
  1. ↑ 1,689Laci#2,126 → #437
  2. ↑ 1,528Karyme#2,467 → #939
  3. ↑ 1,500Roselyn#2,467 → #967
  4. ↑ 1,326Kaydence#2,310 → #984
  5. ↑ 1,170Sherlyn#2,081 → #911
Fallers
  1. ↓ 481Odalys#951 → #1,432
  2. ↓ 400Kari#975 → #1,375
  3. ↓ 334Litzy#501 → #835
  4. ↓ 289Alysha#960 → #1,249
  5. ↓ 252Roxana#861 → #1,113

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

boys

1,975,349 boys got a published name in 2003; 1 in 18,635 of them was named Rayan, which outranked 89.7% of the 12,761 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Rayan
  1. #1,305Favian107
  2. #1,305Geovanny107
  3. #1,305Jericho107
  4. #1,310Rayan106
  5. #1,310Dashaun106
  6. #1,310Gene106
  7. #1,310Ishmael106
  8. #1,319Geovanni105
  9. #1,319Ira105
  10. #1,319Kegan105

Tied with 8 names at #1,310; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2002
Risers
  1. ↑ 790Maddox#1,372 → #582
  2. ↑ 762Jahir#1,571 → #809
  3. ↑ 519Yair#1,236 → #717
  4. ↑ 450Jamarion#1,094 → #644
  5. ↑ 413Aydan#1,154 → #741
Fallers
  1. ↓ 819Lisandro#898 → #1,717
  2. ↓ 621Shemar#970 → #1,591
  3. ↓ 362Jaheem#891 → #1,253
  4. ↓ 337Keandre#998 → #1,335
  5. ↓ 334Savion#568 → #902

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

See the top 100 for 2003 →