Rajon
Rajon was given to 8 boys in 2025, #9,495 among boys’ names; 818 Americans have been recorded with it since 1975 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rajon by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Rajon?
#9,495 among boys’ names, 2025
Rajon fell from #3,961 in 2015 to #9,495 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 14.1 to 4.7 per million.
93 babies in 2010, the peak
Rajon peaked in 2010, when 93 boys were given it, #1,674 among boys’ names. The 8 births of 2025 are 9% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #9,495 | 4.7 |
| 2024 | 5 | #13,768 | 2.9 |
| 2023 | 9 | #8,761 | 5.3 |
| 2022 | 7 | #10,595 | 4.0 |
| 2021 | 17 | #5,498 | 9.7 |
| 2020 | 21 | #4,664 | 12.2 |
| 2019 | 14 | #6,328 | 7.8 |
| 2018 | 9 | #8,664 | 5.0 |
| 2017 | 16 | #5,717 | 8.6 |
| 2016 | 20 | #4,902 | 10.5 |
Every recorded year (44)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 27 | #3,961 | 14.1 |
| 2014 | 32 | #3,442 | 16.7 |
| 2013 | 55 | #2,323 | 29.1 |
| 2012 | 80 | #1,844 | 42.2 |
| 2011 | 83 | #1,766 | 43.7 |
| 2010 | 93 | #1,674 | 48.5 |
| 2009 | 38 | #3,093 | 19.2 |
| 2008 | 33 | #3,404 | 16.2 |
| 2007 | 13 | #6,525 | 6.3 |
| 2006 | 9 | #8,567 | 4.4 |
| 2005 | 10 | #7,518 | 5.0 |
| 2004 | 14 | #5,722 | 7.1 |
| 2003 | 9 | #7,686 | 4.6 |
| 2002 | 21 | #4,009 | 10.8 |
| 2001 | 6 | #10,236 | 3.1 |
| 2000 | 11 | #6,204 | 5.6 |
| 1999 | 11 | #5,949 | 5.7 |
| 1998 | 10 | #6,182 | 5.2 |
| 1997 | 17 | #4,009 | 9.0 |
| 1996 | 6 | #8,746 | 3.2 |
| 1995 | 11 | #5,413 | 5.8 |
| 1994 | 9 | #6,223 | 4.7 |
| 1993 | 12 | #4,926 | 6.1 |
| 1992 | 8 | #6,547 | 4.0 |
| 1991 | 10 | #5,407 | 4.9 |
| 1990 | 11 | #4,910 | 5.4 |
| 1988 | 10 | #4,697 | 5.2 |
| 1986 | 6 | #6,523 | 3.3 |
| 1983 | 6 | #6,041 | 3.3 |
| 1982 | 7 | #5,472 | 3.9 |
| 1980 | 5 | #7,040 | 2.8 |
| 1979 | 5 | #6,816 | 2.9 |
| 1978 | 9 | #4,084 | 5.5 |
| 1975 | 5 | #6,105 | 3.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Rajon a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Rajon has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 44 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Rajon: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rajon, and how old are they?
An estimated 804 Americans named Rajon and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 13 and 22. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 640 people named Rajon (19 women and girls, 621 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 746 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 2,212 babies since 1880, Rajon is the second most given (37% of them).
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 Rajon
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 Rajon and names like it
- Compare Rajon and RajanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sRajon peaked in 2010.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Rajon since 1910.
- The top names of 2010The year the most babies were named Rajon.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Rajon alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with RMost given first.