Rayburn — boys' name

What the Data Says About Rayburn

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,612 babies named Rayburn between 1908 and 2023, spanning 116 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Rayburn currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 1938, when 90 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Rayburn performed strongest in the 1930s, accumulating 560 births during that ten-year window. Across the 13 decades of recorded activity, Rayburn shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Alabama, which accounts for 352 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Tennessee. In total, SSA state-level files list Rayburn in 9 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Rayburn 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 2,612 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.