Rayven
#2,859 for girls in 2025, 59 births · Last seen for boys in 2024 at #10,938
Given to girls 94.7% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1998 · 125 births
- Debut · girls
- 8 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 3,018since 1979
Rayven 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 | #2,859 | 59 | — | |
| 2024 | #2,930 | 56 | #10,938 | 6 |
| 2023 | #3,386 | 47 | #9,763 | 7 |
| 2022 | #3,123 | 52 | #12,330 | 5 |
| 2021 | #2,818 | 60 | #10,799 | 6 |
| 2020 | #2,659 | 63 | #10,605 | 6 |
| 2019 | #2,729 | 62 | — | |
| 2018 | #2,782 | 61 | — | |
| 2017 | #2,302 | 80 | #9,696 | 7 |
| 2016 | #2,643 | 66 | — | |
| 2015 | #2,169 | 87 | — | |
| 2014 | #2,213 | 85 | — | |
| 2013 | #2,096 | 91 | — | |
| 2012 | #2,160 | 87 | — | |
| 2011 | #2,483 | 73 | — | |
| 2010 | #2,614 | 69 | #9,693 | 7 |
| 2009 | #2,592 | 71 | — | |
| 2008 | #2,462 | 77 | — | |
| 2007 | #2,541 | 73 | — | |
| 2006 | #1,865 | 109 | — | |
| 2005 | #1,731 | 114 | — | |
| 2004 | #1,533 | 130 | #7,536 | 9 |
| 2003 | #1,552 | 124 | #5,035 | 15 |
| 2002 | #1,632 | 113 | #4,502 | 17 |
| 2001 | #1,560 | 119 | #6,445 | 10 |
| 2000 | #1,689 | 104 | #5,588 | 12 |
| 1999 | #1,596 | 105 | #7,874 | 7 |
| 1998 | #1,373 | 125 | #4,650 | 14 |
| 1997 | #1,475 | 111 | #6,618 | 8 |
| 1996 | #1,669 | 91 | #9,015 | 5 |
| 1995 | #1,920 | 72 | #8,868 | 5 |
| 1994 | #1,649 | 91 | #7,770 | 6 |
| 1993 | #1,882 | 75 | #5,771 | 9 |
| 1992 | #2,156 | 62 | #5,660 | 9 |
| 1991 | #2,620 | 46 | — | |
| 1990 | #3,436 | 31 | — | |
| 1989 | #8,037 | 9 | — | |
| 1988 | #8,391 | 8 | — | |
| 1987 | #7,987 | 8 | — | |
| 1986 | #5,459 | 13 | — | |
| 1985 | #9,307 | 6 | — | |
| 1984 | #6,810 | 9 | — | |
| 1983 | #6,705 | 9 | — | |
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| 1981 | #8,128 | 7 | — | |
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| 1979 | #7,313 | 8 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Rayven! It came in at #7,313, and was given to 8 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1980, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Rayven is popular in 1999
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Georgia#814 · 1 in 5,716
- Indiana#832 · 1 in 6,643
- Virginia#896 · 1 in 6,871
- Michigan#935 · 1 in 7,328
- North Carolina#1,040 · 1 in 8,499
Best ever in a state: #199 in District of Columbia, 2005.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Georgia | #814 | 8 | 1 in 5,716 |
| Indiana | #832 | 5 | 1 in 6,643 |
| Virginia | #896 | 5 | 1 in 6,871 |
| Michigan | #935 | 7 | 1 in 7,328 |
| North Carolina | #1,040 | 5 | 1 in 8,499 |
| Ohio | #1,214 | 5 | 1 in 12,308 |
| Texas | #1,317 | 13 | 1 in 11,325 |
| California | #2,457 | 7 | 1 in 31,294 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls 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 Rayven
- 71 spots since 2024 (#2,930 → #2,859)
- 200 spots since 2020 (#2,659 → #2,859)
- 690 spots since 2015 (#2,169 → #2,859)
- Debuted 1979
- Peaked 1998 at #1,373 (125 births)
- Births halved by 2018, 20 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 14,125 girls born in 2004 were named Rayven (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 27,242 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,373 in 1998, was only 1 in 14,136 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 34.3% of all girls named Rayven (1,034) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 8 | #7,313 (1979) | #7,313 |
| 1980s | 69 | #5,459 (1986) | #7,603 |
| 1990s | 809 | #1,373 (1998) | #1,978 |
| 2000s | 1,034 | #1,533 (2004) | #1,916 |
| 2010s | 761 | #2,096 (2013) | #2,419 |
| 2020s | 337 | #2,659 (2020) | #2,963 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Rayven in 1999
Top girls' names in 1999
Top boys' names in 1999
More about 1999
girls
1,773,823 girls got a published name in 1999; 1 in 16,894 of them was named Rayven, which outranked 90.6% of the 16,947 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 10.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,580Sapphire106
- #1,580Stormie106
- #1,580Traci106
- #1,596Rayven105
- #1,596Amie105
- #1,596Annelise105
- #1,596Brisa105
- #1,612Andria104
- #1,612Bertha104
- #1,612Jamiya104
Tied with 15 names at #1,596; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,920,150 boys got a published name in 1999; 1 in 274,307 of them was named Rayven, which outranked 32.2% of the 11,614 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 14.1% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #7,139Zan8
- #7,139Zedekiah8
- #7,139Zyler8
- #7,874Rayven7
- #7,874Abad7
- #7,874Abbott7
- #7,874Abdalla7
- #8,704Aaditya6
- #8,704Aaronjames6
- #8,704Abba6
Tied with 829 names at #7,874; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.