Rayshawn
Last seen for girls in 1998 at #14,122 · #3,240 for boys in 2025, 36 births
Given to boys 95.7% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1991 · 125 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 4,004since 1969
Rayshawn over time
Rank among boys' names. Rayshawn has never cracked the top 900 here.
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 | — | #3,240 | 36 | |
| 2024 | — | #4,433 | 23 | |
| 2023 | — | #3,005 | 41 | |
| 2022 | — | #2,830 | 45 | |
| 2021 | — | #2,862 | 43 | |
| 2020 | — | #2,759 | 44 | |
| 2019 | — | #2,626 | 49 | |
| 2018 | — | #2,674 | 46 | |
| 2017 | — | #2,217 | 60 | |
| 2016 | — | #2,437 | 52 | |
| 2015 | — | #2,386 | 54 | |
| 2014 | — | #2,138 | 64 | |
| 2013 | — | #1,878 | 75 | |
| 2012 | — | #1,711 | 88 | |
| 2011 | — | #1,780 | 81 | |
| 2010 | — | #1,588 | 99 | |
| 2009 | — | #1,731 | 89 | |
| 2008 | — | #1,692 | 90 | |
| 2007 | — | #1,516 | 104 | |
| 2006 | — | #1,265 | 132 | |
| 2005 | — | #1,619 | 84 | |
| 2004 | — | #1,440 | 97 | |
| 2003 | — | #1,324 | 104 | |
| 2002 | — | #1,406 | 93 | |
| 2001 | — | #1,178 | 116 | |
| 2000 | — | #1,152 | 120 | |
| 1999 | — | #1,068 | 127 | |
| 1998 | #14,122 | 5 | #1,105 | 116 |
| 1997 | #10,836 | 7 | #1,000 | 128 |
| 1996 | #8,812 | 9 | #1,167 | 100 |
| 1995 | #9,553 | 8 | #978 | 129 |
| 1994 | — | #1,005 | 122 | |
| 1993 | #11,780 | 6 | #992 | 120 |
| 1992 | #7,512 | 11 | #1,033 | 112 |
| 1991 | #8,588 | 9 | #954 | 125 |
| 1990 | #5,835 | 15 | #1,042 | 103 |
| 1989 | #5,545 | 15 | #1,030 | 100 |
| 1988 | #7,691 | 9 | #1,108 | 81 |
| 1987 | #7,987 | 8 | #1,067 | 80 |
| 1986 | #5,188 | 14 | #1,028 | 81 |
| 1985 | — | #975 | 87 | |
| 1984 | #8,153 | 7 | #1,320 | 50 |
| 1983 | — | #1,399 | 45 | |
| 1982 | #10,517 | 5 | #1,677 | 35 |
| 1981 | — | #1,270 | 52 | |
| 1980 | — | #1,391 | 46 | |
| 1979 | #10,210 | 5 | #1,532 | 38 |
| 1978 | #6,948 | 8 | #1,718 | 31 |
| 1977 | #8,444 | 6 | #1,571 | 35 |
| 1976 | #9,284 | 5 | #1,572 | 34 |
| 1975 | — | #1,704 | 29 | |
| 1974 | #7,680 | 6 | #1,983 | 22 |
| 1973 | — | #2,513 | 15 | |
| 1972 | #8,292 | 5 | #2,659 | 13 |
| 1971 | #6,006 | 8 | #2,558 | 14 |
| 1970 | #6,362 | 7 | — | |
| 1969 | — | #4,404 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Rayshawn! It came in at #4,404, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1969–1970, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Rayshawn
- 1,193 spots since 2024 (#4,433 → #3,240)
- 481 spots since 2020 (#2,759 → #3,240)
- 854 spots since 2015 (#2,386 → #3,240)
- Biggest jump: 345 spots in 1985 (#1,320 → #975)
- Biggest drop: 189 spots in 1996 (#978 → #1,167)
- Debuted 1969
- Peaked 1991 at #954 (125 births)
- Births halved by 2015, 24 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 5 yrs · 1985–1997
- Highest: 1 in 14,728 boys born in 1997 were named Rayshawn (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 47,447 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #954 in 1991, was only 1 in 16,163 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 29.5% of all boys named Rayshawn (1,182) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 5 | #4,404 (1969) | #4,404 |
| 1970s | 231 | #1,532 (1979) | #1,979 |
| 1980s | 657 | #975 (1985) | #1,227 |
| 1990s | 1,182 | #954 (1991) | #1,034 |
| 2000s | 1,029 | #1,152 (2000) | #1,432 |
| 2010s | 668 | #1,588 (2010) | #2,144 |
| 2020s | 232 | #2,759 (2020) | #3,188 |
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.
Rayshawn in 1995
Top girls' names in 1995
Top boys' names in 1995
More about 1995
girls
1,758,548 girls got a published name in 1995; 1 in 219,819 of them was named Rayshawn, which outranked 39.4% of the 15,753 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #8,766Ziomara9
- #8,766Zitlali9
- #8,766Zyanya9
- #9,553Rayshawn8
- #9,553Aaleyah8
- #9,553Aaliayah8
- #9,553Aaminah8
- #10,514Aariona7
- #10,514Abbigael7
- #10,514Abena7
Tied with 960 names at #9,553; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,903,701 boys got a published name in 1995; 1 in 14,757 of them was named Rayshawn, which outranked 90.5% of the 10,330 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.1% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).