Raylen
#3,517 for girls in 2025, 43 births · #1,688 for boys in 2025, 97 births
Given to boys 66.5% of the time
Showing
- Peak · boys
- 2014 · 105 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,611since 1962
Raylen over time
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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #3,517 | 43 | #1,688 | 97 |
| 2024 | #3,963 | 37 | #1,809 | 90 |
| 2023 | #4,565 | 30 | #2,064 | 72 |
| 2022 | #4,907 | 27 | #1,792 | 91 |
| 2021 | #4,014 | 36 | #1,700 | 96 |
| 2020 | #3,450 | 44 | #1,539 | 107 |
| 2019 | #3,222 | 49 | #1,698 | 93 |
| 2018 | #3,789 | 39 | #1,872 | 80 |
| 2017 | #3,552 | 43 | #1,829 | 81 |
| 2016 | #4,250 | 34 | #1,687 | 93 |
| 2015 | #3,059 | 55 | #1,538 | 106 |
| 2014 | #3,272 | 49 | #1,526 | 105 |
| 2013 | #3,404 | 46 | #1,605 | 96 |
| 2012 | #3,464 | 46 | #1,551 | 102 |
| 2011 | #4,466 | 32 | #1,719 | 86 |
| 2010 | #4,735 | 30 | #2,826 | 42 |
| 2009 | #3,944 | 39 | #3,919 | 26 |
| 2008 | #8,965 | 13 | #5,067 | 18 |
| 2007 | #5,230 | 27 | #4,808 | 19 |
| 2006 | #6,125 | 21 | #6,460 | 12 |
| 2005 | #10,921 | 9 | #5,875 | 13 |
| 2004 | #12,761 | 7 | #5,492 | 14 |
| 2003 | #15,784 | 5 | #7,245 | 9 |
| 2002 | #7,816 | 13 | #7,055 | 9 |
| 2001 | #13,521 | 6 | #10,556 | 5 |
| 2000 | #7,158 | 14 | #5,920 | 11 |
| 1999 | #8,223 | 11 | #5,656 | 11 |
| 1998 | #12,426 | 6 | #5,840 | 10 |
| 1997 | — | #7,281 | 7 | |
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First appearance
1962
The first year at least five boys were named Raylen! It came in at #4,033, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1962–1996, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
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Momentum · boys
Holding steady
- 121 spots since 2024 (#1,809 → #1,688)
- 149 spots since 2020 (#1,539 → #1,688)
- 150 spots since 2015 (#1,538 → #1,688)
Rise & fade · boys
52 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1962
- Peaked 2014 at #1,526 (105 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 16,132
- Highest: 1 in 16,132 boys born in 2020 were named Raylen (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 17,609 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #1,526 in 2014, was only 1 in 18,294 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2010s
- 54.9% of all boys named Raylen (884) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2010
- Mostly girls until 2009, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 5 | #4,033 (1962) | #4,033 |
| 1970s | 0 | — | — |
| 1980s | 0 | — | — |
| 1990s | 33 | #5,656 (1999) | #6,724 |
| 2000s | 136 | #3,919 (2009) | #6,240 |
| 2010s | 884 | #1,526 (2014) | #1,785 |
| 2020s | 553 | #1,539 (2020) | #1,765 |
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.
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