Raiyan
Raiyan was given to 25 boys in 2025, #4,221 among boys’ names; 373 Americans have been recorded with it since 1999 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Raiyan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Raiyan?
#4,221 among boys’ names, 2025
Raiyan rose from #7,906 in 2015 to #4,221 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 5.2 to 14.6 per million.
25 babies in 2025, the peak
Raiyan peaked in 2025, when 25 boys were given it, #4,221 among boys’ names. In 2024 it went to 12 boys.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 25 | #4,221 | 14.6 |
| 2024 | 12 | #7,160 | 7.0 |
| 2023 | 14 | #6,432 | 8.2 |
| 2022 | 9 | #8,824 | 5.2 |
| 2021 | 10 | #8,020 | 5.7 |
| 2020 | 17 | #5,401 | 9.8 |
| 2019 | 19 | #5,107 | 10.6 |
| 2018 | 15 | #5,972 | 8.3 |
| 2017 | 14 | #6,262 | 7.6 |
| 2016 | 17 | #5,494 | 9.0 |
Every recorded year (27)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 10 | #7,906 | 5.2 |
| 2014 | 17 | #5,427 | 8.9 |
| 2013 | 18 | #5,118 | 9.5 |
| 2012 | 15 | #5,916 | 7.9 |
| 2011 | 17 | #5,372 | 9.0 |
| 2010 | 14 | #6,291 | 7.3 |
| 2009 | 16 | #5,745 | 8.1 |
| 2008 | 14 | #6,323 | 6.9 |
| 2007 | 15 | #5,846 | 7.2 |
| 2006 | 17 | #5,249 | 8.3 |
| 2005 | 11 | #6,993 | 5.5 |
| 2004 | 14 | #5,721 | 7.1 |
| 2003 | 22 | #3,937 | 11.1 |
| 2002 | 5 | #12,067 | 2.6 |
| 2001 | 6 | #10,234 | 3.1 |
| 2000 | 5 | #11,720 | 2.5 |
| 1999 | 5 | #11,198 | 2.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Raiyan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Raiyan has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 27 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Raiyan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Raiyan, and how old are they?
An estimated 369 Americans named Raiyan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 7 and 19. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 396 people named Raiyan (48 women and girls, 348 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 288 born in the U.S. The Census count is 38% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
How common is the spelling Raiyan?
Raiyan is a less common spelling of Rayyan: SSA has recorded 373 Raiyan and 3,471 Rayyan since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 16,977 babies since 1880, Raiyan is the sixth most given (2.2% of them). In 2025 it was given to 25 of their 918 babies (2.7%), the fifth most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Raiyan
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Raiyan and names like it
- Compare Raiyan and RayyanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sRaiyan peaked in 2025.
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- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Raiyan.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Raiyan alive today were born 2013-2025.
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