Rawn — boys' name
110 babies named Rawn in U.S. Social Security records since 1953, with the highest year being 1955. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
48% of everyone ever named Rawn was born in this single decade.
14 babies were named Rawn in 1955 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Rawn
The Social Security Administration has registered 110 babies named Rawn between 1953 and 1988, spanning 36 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Rawn currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 1988. The name reached its historical peak in 1955, when 14 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Rawn performed strongest in the 1950s, accumulating 53 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Rawn shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 8 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Rawn in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Rawn 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 110 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.
Rawn at a glance
Last recorded 1988Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Rawn popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1988–1953
- Peak year (1955)
- 14
- Annual births at peak — across 36 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 1988.
110 total births across 36 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1955 with 14 births in a single year.
Rawn by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1950s
- 53 births that decade — 48% of Rawn's all-time total
Rawn decade highlights
- Peak decade 53 births
- Runner-up 23 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1950s was Rawn's strongest decade
53 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 48% of all-time use.
Rawn by state
Where Rawn concentrates geographically — total births since 1953
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | New York | | 8 | 7.3% |
8 of 110 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- New York 7.3% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
New York accounts for 7.3% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1953–1988 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.