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 | ||
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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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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.
Where Raylen is popular in 2020
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Alabama#485 · 1 in 2,419
- Tennessee#752 · 1 in 4,868
- Missouri#827 · 1 in 5,699
- Georgia#936 · 1 in 6,284
- North Carolina#945 · 1 in 6,992
Best ever in a state: #346 in Kentucky, 2012.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Alabama | #485 | 9 | 1 in 2,419 |
| Tennessee | #752 | 7 | 1 in 4,868 |
| Missouri | #827 | 5 | 1 in 5,699 |
| Georgia | #936 | 8 | 1 in 6,284 |
| North Carolina | #945 | 7 | 1 in 6,992 |
| Florida | #1,511 | 6 | 1 in 15,035 |
| Texas | #1,799 | 8 | 1 in 21,156 |
| California | #1,834 | 8 | 1 in 23,702 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
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 2020
Top girls' names in 2020
Top boys' names in 2020
More about 2020
girls
1,616,549 girls got a published name in 2020; 1 in 36,740 of them was named Raylen, which outranked 80.3% of the 17,527 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #3,399Wynonna45
- #3,399Xitlaly45
- #3,399Zuleyka45
- #3,450Raylen44
- #3,450Adelynne44
- #3,450Alyah44
- #3,450Amariyah44
- #3,498Abygail43
- #3,498Aleyza43
- #3,498Aline43
Tied with 47 names at #3,450; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,726,076 boys got a published name in 2020; 1 in 16,132 of them was named Raylen, which outranked 89.1% of the 14,060 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,534Jamar108
- #1,534Krue108
- #1,534Kyngston108
- #1,539Raylen107
- #1,539Agastya107
- #1,539Cadence107
- #1,539Camryn107
- #1,556Alister106
- #1,556Arman106
- #1,556Gionni106
Tied with 16 names at #1,539; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↓ 380Vivaan#875 → #1,255
- ↓ 282Alexzander#890 → #1,172
- ↓ 268Reyansh#806 → #1,074
- ↓ 266Javion#949 → #1,215
- ↓ 224Kenny#862 → #1,086
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.