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

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Peak · boys
2014 · 105 births
Debut · boys
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
1,611
since 1962

Raylen over time

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

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020202018peak #3,059, 2015peak #1,526, 2014girlsboys
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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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rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#3,51743#1,68897
2024#3,96337#1,80990
2023#4,56530#2,06472
2022#4,90727#1,79291
2021#4,01436#1,70096
2020#3,45044#1,539107
2019#3,22249#1,69893
2018#3,78939#1,87280
2017#3,55243#1,82981
2016#4,25034#1,68793
2015#3,05955#1,538106
2014#3,27249#1,526105
2013#3,40446#1,60596
2012#3,46446#1,551102
2011#4,46632#1,71986
2010#4,73530#2,82642
2009#3,94439#3,91926
2008#8,96513#5,06718
2007#5,23027#4,80819
2006#6,12521#6,46012
2005#10,9219#5,87513
2004#12,7617#5,49214
2003#15,7845#7,2459
2002#7,81613#7,0559
2001#13,5216#10,5565
2000#7,15814#5,92011
1999#8,22311#5,65611
1998#12,4266#5,84010
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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.

See more about Raylen
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
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Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1960s5#4,033 (1962)#4,033
1970s0
1980s0
1990s33#5,656 (1999)#6,724
2000s136#3,919 (2009)#6,240
2010s884#1,526 (2014)#1,785
2020s553#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

girls
#3,789
39 births · 1 in 43,617 girls
boys
#1,872
80 births · 1 in 22,702 boys

Top girls' names in 2018

  1. #1Emma18,824
  2. #2Olivia18,061
  3. #3Ava15,034
  4. #4Isabella14,575
  5. #5Sophia14,013
  6. #6Charlotte13,038
  7. #7Mia12,742
  8. #8Amelia12,405
  9. #9Harper10,646
  10. #10Evelyn10,433
  11. #3,789Raylen39

Top boys' names in 2018

  1. #1Liam19,977
  2. #2Noah18,441
  3. #3William14,646
  4. #4James13,650
  5. #5Oliver13,500
  6. #6Benjamin13,488
  7. #7Elijah13,020
  8. #8Lucas12,665
  9. #9Mason12,526
  10. #10Logan12,447
  11. #1,872Raylen80
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).

Ranked beside Raylen
  1. #3,739Tzipora40
  2. #3,739Zaelynn40
  3. #3,739Zyanna40
  4. #3,789Raylen39
  5. #3,789Aarushi39
  6. #3,789Akeelah39
  7. #3,789Aletheia39
  8. #3,853Airabella38
  9. #3,853Ameenah38
  10. #3,853Angeles38

Tied with 63 names at #3,789; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2017
Risers
  1. 680Meghan#1,387#707
  2. 567Dior#1,360#793
  3. 367Palmer#1,042#675
  4. 361Adalee#1,217#856
  5. 346Oaklynn#888#542
Fallers
  1. 334Audrina#847#1,181
  2. 234Courtney#952#1,186
  3. 232Marjorie#938#1,170
  4. 228Anabelle#969#1,197
  5. 225Angelique#799#1,024

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).

Ranked beside Raylen
  1. #1,856Tyshawn81
  2. #1,856Woodrow81
  3. #1,856Yuri81
  4. #1,872Raylen80
  5. #1,872Aariz80
  6. #1,872Ashtyn80
  7. #1,872Austen80
  8. #1,886Arie79
  9. #1,886Asad79
  10. #1,886Donnie79

Tied with 13 names at #1,872; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2017
Risers
  1. 594Genesis#1,575#981
  2. 436Baker#1,149#713
  3. 430Saint#1,287#857
  4. 319Kairo#802#483
  5. 307Watson#1,020#713
Fallers
  1. 235Aaden#893#1,128
  2. 224Dilan#917#1,141
  3. 201Craig#980#1,181
  4. 177Mike#951#1,128
  5. 172Harper#798#970

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

See the top 100 for 2018