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
- 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
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 | #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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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.
See more about Raylen
- 121 spots since 2024 (#1,809 → #1,688)
- 149 spots since 2020 (#1,539 → #1,688)
- 150 spots since 2015 (#1,538 → #1,688)
- Debuted 1962
- Peaked 2014 at #1,526 (105 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- 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
- 54.9% of all boys named Raylen (884) were born in this decade
- 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.
Raylen in 2018
Top girls' names in 2018
Top boys' names in 2018
More about 2018
girls
1,701,074 girls got a published name in 2018; 1 in 43,617 of them was named Raylen, which outranked 79.1% of the 18,152 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #3,739Tzipora40
- #3,739Zaelynn40
- #3,739Zyanna40
- #3,789Raylen39
- #3,789Aarushi39
- #3,789Akeelah39
- #3,789Aletheia39
- #3,853Airabella38
- #3,853Ameenah38
- #3,853Angeles38
Tied with 63 names at #3,789; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,816,158 boys got a published name in 2018; 1 in 22,702 of them was named Raylen, which outranked 86.7% of the 14,118 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,856Tyshawn81
- #1,856Woodrow81
- #1,856Yuri81
- #1,872Raylen80
- #1,872Aariz80
- #1,872Ashtyn80
- #1,872Austen80
- #1,886Arie79
- #1,886Asad79
- #1,886Donnie79
Tied with 13 names at #1,872; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.