Raider — #3836 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Raider

The Social Security Administration has registered 575 babies named Raider between 1995 and 2024, spanning 30 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Raider currently holds the #3836 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2018, when 47 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Raider performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 309 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Raider shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 32 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Utah. In total, SSA state-level files list Raider in 4 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Raider in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 575 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.