Raylan

#5,917 for girls in 2025, 20 births · #800 for boys in 2025, 311 births
Given to boys 92.1% of the time

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Peak · boys
2015 · 630 births
Debut · boys
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
6,856
since 1975

Raylan over time

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

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020202016peak #3,001, 2015peak #473, 2015girlsboys
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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#5,91720#800311
2024#4,38732#716370
2023#4,36332#666408
2022#3,76540#709372
2021#3,43545#644429
2020#4,00535#614446
2019#4,26033#659401
2018#4,14434#627425
2017#3,55243#619421
2016#4,42332#572486
2015#3,00157#473630
2014#3,65242#498566
2013#4,24334#512522
2012#4,95728#536487
2011#5,06327#698331
2010#8,27114#1,299132
2009#17,2945#5,55416
2008#11,5999#8,3249
2007#11,6309#9,7887
2006#12,4208#6,90411
2005#5,57814
2004#6,97610
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2002#9,3926
2001#12,0567
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First appearance
1975

The first year at least five boys were named Raylan! It came in at #5,464, and was given to 5 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1975–1976, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

See more about Raylan
Momentum · boys
Falling
  • 84 spots since 2024 (#716#800)
  • 186 spots since 2020 (#614#800)
  • 327 spots since 2015 (#473#800)
  • Biggest jump: 601 spots in 2011 (#1,299#698)
  • Biggest drop: 99 spots in 2016 (#473#572)
Rise & fade · boys
40 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1975
  • Peaked 2015 at #473 (630 births)
  • Births halved by 2025, 10 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 15 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 15 yrs · run 2011–2025
Share of babies · boys
1 in 3,042
  • Highest: 1 in 3,042 boys born in 2015 were named Raylan (0.03%)
  • Latest: 1 in 5,492 boys born in 2025 (0.02%)
Era · boys
The 2010s
  • 64.2% of all boys named Raylan (4,401) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2009
  • Mostly girls until 2008, mostly boys since
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Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1970s11#5,123 (1977)#5,294
1980s5#6,238 (1983)#6,238
1990s30#6,670 (1992)#8,128
2000s73#5,554 (2009)#7,502
2010s4,401#473 (2015)#649
2020s2,336#614 (2020)#692

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.

Raylan in 2016

girls
#4,423
32 births · 1 in 55,376 girls
boys
#572
486 births · 1 in 3,905 boys

Top girls' names in 2016

  1. #1Emma19,550
  2. #2Olivia19,414
  3. #3Ava16,354
  4. #4Sophia16,185
  5. #5Isabella14,863
  6. #6Mia14,464
  7. #7Charlotte13,118
  8. #8Abigail11,796
  9. #9Emily11,006
  10. #10Amelia10,809
  11. #4,423Raylan32

Top boys' names in 2016

  1. #1Noah19,188
  2. #2Liam18,277
  3. #3William15,810
  4. #4Mason15,287
  5. #5James14,920
  6. #6Benjamin14,686
  7. #7Jacob14,559
  8. #8Michael14,145
  9. #9Elijah13,982
  10. #10Ethan13,855
  11. #572Raylan486
More about 2016

girls

1,772,022 girls got a published name in 2016; 1 in 55,376 of them was named Raylan, which outranked 76.6% 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).

Ranked beside Raylan
  1. #4,345Serah33
  2. #4,345Ziana33
  3. #4,345Zoriah33
  4. #4,423Raylan32
  5. #4,423Aaira32
  6. #4,423Aaliah32
  7. #4,423Aariah32
  8. #4,531Adanna31
  9. #4,531Aiya31
  10. #4,531Alayiah31

Tied with 107 names at #4,423; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2015
Risers
  1. 2,389Kehlani#3,254#865
  2. 612Royalty#1,146#534
  3. 481Saoirse#1,448#967
  4. 396Ophelia#978#582
  5. 364Aitana#915#551
Fallers
  1. 542Caitlin#610#1,152
  2. 451Caitlyn#598#1,049
  3. 397Katelynn#652#1,049
  4. 382Kaitlynn#989#1,371
  5. 340Neriah#946#1,286

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

boys

1,897,738 boys got a published name in 2016; 1 in 3,905 of them was named Raylan, which outranked 96.0% 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).

Ranked beside Raylan
  1. #569Hamza493
  2. #570Devon491
  3. #571Jasiah488
  4. #572Raylan486
  5. #573Jamari484
  6. #574Alfredo483
  7. #575Jalen482
Biggest movers since 2015
Risers
  1. 2,327Kylo#3,231#904
  2. 355Creed#1,340#985
  3. 349Benicio#1,327#978
  4. 303Adonis#698#395
  5. 291Fox#1,035#744
Fallers
  1. 477Jonael#922#1,399
  2. 238Aaden#784#1,022
  3. 233Triston#950#1,183
  4. 223Freddy#993#1,216
  5. 207Chace#934#1,141

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

See the top 100 for 2016