Rayce
Rayce was given to 28 boys in 2025, #3,922 among boys’ names; 1,424 Americans have been recorded with it since 1960 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,390 Americans named Rayce and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 12 and 27.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rayce by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Rayce?
#3,922 among boys’ names, 2025
Rayce fell from #2,475 in 2015 to #3,922 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 26.6 to 16.4 per million.
86 babies in 2012, the peak
Rayce peaked in 2012, when 86 boys were given it, #1,753 among boys’ names. The 28 births of 2025 are 33% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 28 | #3,922 | 16.4 |
| 2024 | 21 | #4,835 | 12.2 |
| 2023 | 33 | #3,539 | 19.3 |
| 2022 | 20 | #4,976 | 11.5 |
| 2021 | 21 | #4,737 | 12.0 |
| 2020 | 22 | #4,509 | 12.7 |
| 2019 | 30 | #3,694 | 16.7 |
| 2018 | 45 | #2,738 | 24.8 |
| 2017 | 29 | #3,744 | 15.7 |
| 2016 | 27 | #3,963 | 14.2 |
Every recorded year (48)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 51 | #2,475 | 26.6 |
| 2014 | 43 | #2,794 | 22.4 |
| 2013 | 41 | #2,831 | 21.7 |
| 2012 | 86 | #1,753 | 45.3 |
| 2011 | 48 | #2,581 | 25.3 |
| 2010 | 44 | #2,776 | 22.9 |
| 2009 | 51 | #2,510 | 25.7 |
| 2008 | 44 | #2,777 | 21.6 |
| 2007 | 48 | #2,591 | 23.1 |
| 2006 | 45 | #2,648 | 21.9 |
| 2005 | 67 | #1,907 | 33.5 |
| 2004 | 41 | #2,625 | 20.7 |
| 2003 | 43 | #2,455 | 21.8 |
| 2002 | 37 | #2,622 | 19.1 |
| 2001 | 32 | #2,910 | 16.5 |
| 2000 | 36 | #2,604 | 18.3 |
| 1999 | 39 | #2,329 | 20.3 |
| 1998 | 45 | #2,086 | 23.5 |
| 1997 | 43 | #2,081 | 22.8 |
| 1996 | 29 | #2,657 | 15.3 |
| 1995 | 36 | #2,241 | 18.9 |
| 1994 | 25 | #2,918 | 12.9 |
| 1993 | 17 | #3,775 | 8.7 |
| 1992 | 15 | #4,052 | 7.5 |
| 1991 | 18 | #3,423 | 8.9 |
| 1990 | 11 | #4,914 | 5.4 |
| 1989 | 22 | #2,864 | 11.0 |
| 1988 | 15 | #3,487 | 7.8 |
| 1987 | 14 | #3,465 | 7.5 |
| 1986 | 7 | #5,786 | 3.8 |
| 1985 | 6 | #6,343 | 3.2 |
| 1984 | 5 | #7,075 | 2.8 |
| 1982 | 6 | #6,220 | 3.3 |
| 1980 | 5 | #7,050 | 2.8 |
| 1967 | 5 | #4,417 | 2.9 |
| 1965 | 5 | #4,312 | 2.7 |
| 1962 | 6 | #3,936 | 2.9 |
| 1960 | 6 | #3,965 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Rayce a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Rayce has been given almost only to boys: 11 girls in 48 years of records.
Girls and boys named Rayce: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rayce, and how old are they?
1,390 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,424 Americans ever recorded as Rayce. The median Rayce alive today is 19 years old; half are between 12 and 27.
The 2020 Census counted 1,253 people named Rayce (55 women and girls, 1,198 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,264 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 9 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 13 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 216 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 748 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 408 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 2,835 babies since 1880, Rayce is the most given (50% of them). In 2025 it was given to 28 of their 40 babies (70%), 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 Rayce
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 Rayce and names like it
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- The names of Generation ZMost people named Rayce alive today were born 1997-2012.
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