Rayaan
Rayaan is given to both girls and boys: 13 girls and 63 boys were given it in 2025 (#8,237 among girls’ names and #2,247 among boys’, #4,271 among all names counting both); 1,286 Americans have been recorded with it since 2000 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,280 Americans named Rayaan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 5 and 14.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rayaan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Rayaan?
#2,247 among boys’ names, 2025
Rayaan rose from #2,321 in 2015 to #2,247 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 29.7 to 36.9 per million.
92 babies in 2022, the peak
Rayaan peaked in 2022, when 92 babies were given it (78 boys, #1,977 among boys’ names). The 76 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 83% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #8,237 | 63 | #2,247 |
| 2024 | under 5 | 64 | #2,253 | |
| 2023 | 6 | #14,786 | 72 | #2,071 |
| 2022 | 14 | #7,941 | 78 | #1,977 |
| 2021 | 11 | #9,411 | 60 | #2,317 |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,896 | 61 | #2,256 |
| 2019 | 10 | #10,305 | 65 | #2,184 |
| 2018 | 10 | #10,394 | 56 | #2,376 |
| 2017 | 14 | #8,191 | 37 | #3,178 |
| 2016 | 10 | #10,679 | 45 | #2,714 |
Every recorded year (26)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 23 | #5,793 | 57 | #2,321 |
| 2014 | 9 | #11,730 | 69 | #2,055 |
| 2013 | 17 | #7,303 | 47 | #2,588 |
| 2012 | 11 | #10,268 | 58 | #2,258 |
| 2011 | 5 | #18,942 | 25 | #4,075 |
| 2010 | 7 | #14,630 | 37 | #3,118 |
| 2009 | 5 | #19,552 | 30 | #3,613 |
| 2008 | 12 | #9,947 | 26 | #4,004 |
| 2007 | 7 | #15,116 | 26 | #3,974 |
| 2006 | under 5 | 35 | #3,139 | |
| 2005 | under 5 | 21 | #4,296 | |
| 2004 | under 5 | 10 | #7,391 | |
| 2003 | under 5 | 22 | #3,940 | |
| 2002 | under 5 | 15 | #5,081 | |
| 2001 | under 5 | 7 | #9,006 | |
| 2000 | under 5 | 8 | #8,023 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Rayaan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,286 Americans recorded as Rayaan, 15% are girls and 85% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Rayaan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rayaan, and how old are they?
1,280 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,286 Americans ever recorded as Rayaan. The median Rayaan alive today is 9 years old; half are between 5 and 14.
The 2020 Census counted 797 people named Rayaan (145 women and girls, 652 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 847 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 363 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 912 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Rayaan born?
The states with the most babies named Rayaan are New York, Texas and Virginia, with 81% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Virginia is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 10 | #1,192 | 1.5× |
| Texas | 6 | #2,498 | 0.7× |
| Virginia | 6 | #1,063 | 0.8× |
| Maryland | 5 | #895 | 0.2× |
Where Rayaan is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Rayaan is most over-represented in New York: since 2000 it was given 1.5 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Rayaan with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Rayaan?
Rayaan is a less common spelling of Rayan: SSA has recorded 1,286 Rayaan and 9,953 Rayan since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 16,987 babies since 1880, Rayaan is the third most given (7.6% of them). In 2025 it was given to 76 of their 913 babies (8.3%), again the third most given.
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 Rayaan
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 Rayaan and names like it
- Compare Rayaan and RayanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sRayaan peaked in 2022.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Rayaan since 1910.
- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Rayaan.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Rayaan alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with RMost given first.