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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 2016
Top girls' names in 2016
Top boys' names in 2016
More about 2016
girls
1,772,022 girls got a published name in 2016; 1 in 32,219 of them was named Rayan, which outranked 84.1% of the 18,885 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,966Yasmina56
- #2,966Yatzil56
- #2,966Yelena56
- #3,010Rayan55
- #3,010Alexus55
- #3,010Alize55
- #3,010Alyce55
- #3,060Addy54
- #3,060Adora54
- #3,060Alizah54
Tied with 49 names at #3,010; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,897,738 boys got a published name in 2016; 1 in 3,699 of them was named Rayan, which outranked 96.1% of the 14,207 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.