Rayan
Rayan was given to 499 boys in 2025, #588 among boys’ names; 9,953 Americans have been recorded with it since 1973 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 9,850 Americans named Rayan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 5 and 16.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rayan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Rayan mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Rayan is “a male given name from Arabic.”
From Arabic رَيَّان (rayyān)
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Rayan?
#588 among boys’ names, 2025
Rayan fell from #584 in 2015 to #588 in 2025 among boys’ names, although its share of boys born rose from 0.25 to 0.29 per 1,000.
568 babies in 2016, the peak
Rayan peaked in 2016, when 568 babies were given it (513 boys, #561 among boys’ names). The 534 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 94% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 35 | #4,149 | 499 | #588 |
| 2024 | 21 | #5,921 | 493 | #579 |
| 2023 | 20 | #6,108 | 518 | #562 |
| 2022 | 44 | #3,581 | 445 | #628 |
| 2021 | 34 | #4,218 | 407 | #665 |
| 2020 | 31 | #4,421 | 442 | #617 |
| 2019 | 56 | #2,953 | 497 | #563 |
| 2018 | 53 | #3,095 | 489 | #564 |
| 2017 | 52 | #3,129 | 476 | #574 |
| 2016 | 55 | #3,048 | 513 | #561 |
Every recorded year (50)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 61 | #2,882 | 476 | #584 |
| 2014 | 53 | #3,131 | 440 | #608 |
| 2013 | 45 | #3,507 | 359 | #673 |
| 2012 | 51 | #3,252 | 362 | #657 |
| 2011 | 40 | #3,824 | 309 | #734 |
| 2010 | 40 | #3,874 | 295 | #762 |
| 2009 | 38 | #4,081 | 279 | #798 |
| 2008 | 39 | #4,070 | 243 | #874 |
| 2007 | 29 | #5,064 | 220 | #906 |
| 2006 | 19 | #6,780 | 182 | #1,015 |
| 2005 | 34 | #4,175 | 134 | #1,194 |
| 2004 | 28 | #4,788 | 99 | #1,431 |
| 2003 | 26 | #4,910 | 106 | #1,315 |
| 2002 | 17 | #6,624 | 78 | #1,580 |
| 2001 | 26 | #4,652 | 52 | #2,039 |
| 2000 | 19 | #5,884 | 51 | #2,006 |
| 1999 | 24 | #4,690 | 47 | #2,052 |
| 1998 | 8 | #10,894 | 30 | #2,765 |
| 1997 | 8 | #10,559 | 26 | #2,957 |
| 1996 | 11 | #7,981 | 27 | #2,810 |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,581 | 26 | #2,827 |
| 1994 | 12 | #7,478 | 24 | #3,006 |
| 1993 | under 5 | 20 | #3,335 | |
| 1992 | under 5 | 23 | #2,976 | |
| 1991 | 8 | #10,008 | 25 | #2,728 |
| 1990 | 5 | #14,653 | 20 | #3,137 |
| 1989 | under 5 | 18 | #3,293 | |
| 1988 | 6 | #11,383 | 20 | #2,830 |
| 1987 | under 5 | 11 | #4,173 | |
| 1986 | under 5 | 23 | #2,408 | |
| 1985 | under 5 | 14 | #3,348 | |
| 1984 | under 5 | 12 | #3,627 | |
| 1983 | under 5 | 10 | #4,080 | |
| 1982 | under 5 | 13 | #3,442 | |
| 1981 | under 5 | 8 | #4,855 | |
| 1980 | under 5 | 6 | #6,067 | |
| 1979 | under 5 | 10 | #4,012 | |
| 1978 | under 5 | 7 | #4,929 | |
| 1977 | under 5 | 5 | #6,631 | |
| 1973 | under 5 | 6 | #4,948 |
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 Rayan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 9,953 Americans recorded as Rayan, 11% are girls and 89% boys. In 2025 it went to 35 girls and 499 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Rayan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rayan, and how old are they?
9,850 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 9,953 Americans ever recorded as Rayan. The median Rayan alive today is 10 years old; half are between 5 and 16.
The 2020 Census counted 6,891 people named Rayan (1,014 women and girls, 5,877 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 7,016 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 31 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 331 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,920 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 6,570 |
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 Rayan born?
The states with the most babies named Rayan are California, Texas and New York, with 35% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 71 | #449 | 0.9× |
| Texas | 50 | #619 | 0.7× |
| New York | 48 | #373 | 2.0× |
| Illinois | 34 | #323 | 1.3× |
| Florida | 29 | #598 | 0.9× |
| Virginia | 28 | #302 | 2.0× |
| Ohio | 27 | #508 | 0.8× |
| New Jersey | 22 | #374 | 1.8× |
| North Carolina | 18 | #563 | 0.7× |
| Washington | 18 | #560 | 0.6× |
Where Rayan is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Rayan is most over-represented in New York: since 1973 it was given 2.0 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 Rayan with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 17,222 babies since 1880, Rayan is the most given (58% of them). In 2025 it was given to 534 of their 913 babies (58%), again the 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 Rayan
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 Rayan and names like it
- Compare Rayan and RayyanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sRayan peaked in 2016.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Rayan since 1910.
- Arabic namesWiktionary’s origin for Rayan: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2016The year the most babies were named Rayan.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Rayan alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with RMost given first.