Rayden
Rayden was given to 297 boys in 2025, #833 among boys’ names; 6,937 Americans have been recorded with it since 1991 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 6,870 Americans named Rayden 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 15.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rayden by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Rayden mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Rayden is “a male given name transferred from the surname, of modern usage.”
From Raydon or Reydon in Suffolk.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Rayden?
#833 among boys’ names, 2025
Rayden fell from #670 in 2015 to #833 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.20 to 0.17 per 1,000.
416 babies in 2022, the peak
Rayden peaked in 2022, when 416 babies were given it (398 boys, #682 among boys’ names). The 297 births of 2025 are 71% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 297 | #833 | 0.17 |
| 2024 | 336 | #758 | 0.20 |
| 2023 | 346 | #754 | 0.20 |
| 2022 | 398 | #682 | 0.23 |
| 2021 | 379 | #699 | 0.22 |
| 2020 | 336 | #732 | 0.19 |
| 2019 | 334 | #730 | 0.19 |
| 2018 | 358 | #684 | 0.20 |
| 2017 | 367 | #682 | 0.20 |
| 2016 | 331 | #738 | 0.17 |
Every recorded year (35)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 383 | #670 | 0.20 |
| 2014 | 372 | #680 | 0.19 |
| 2013 | 304 | #750 | 0.16 |
| 2012 | 302 | #760 | 0.16 |
| 2011 | 262 | #829 | 0.14 |
| 2010 | 217 | #932 | 0.11 |
| 2009 | 196 | #1,004 | 0.10 |
| 2008 | 195 | #1,004 | 0.10 |
| 2007 | 141 | #1,253 | 0.07 |
| 2006 | 110 | #1,424 | 0.05 |
| 2005 | 102 | #1,450 | 0.05 |
| 2004 | 77 | #1,682 | 0.04 |
| 2003 | 81 | #1,574 | 0.04 |
| 2002 | 74 | #1,632 | 0.04 |
| 2001 | 41 | #2,412 | 0.02 |
| 2000 | 43 | #2,283 | 0.02 |
| 1999 | 33 | #2,654 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 36 | #2,432 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 31 | #2,594 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 26 | #2,888 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 29 | #2,603 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 14 | #4,478 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 6 | #8,452 | under 0.01 |
| 1992 | 6 | #8,221 | under 0.01 |
| 1991 | 7 | #7,104 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Rayden a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 6,937 Americans recorded as Rayden, 5% are girls and 95% boys. In 2025 it went to 297 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Rayden: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rayden, and how old are they?
6,870 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 6,937 Americans ever recorded as Rayden. The median Rayden alive today is 10 years old; half are between 5 and 15.
The 2020 Census counted 4,143 people named Rayden (281 women and girls, 3,862 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,825 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 85 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,060 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 4,730 |
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 Rayden born?
The states with the most babies named Rayden are Texas, California and New York, with 35% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 33 | #823 | 1.1× |
| California | 33 | #783 | 0.8× |
| New York | 21 | #708 | 0.6× |
| Florida | 18 | #838 | 0.9× |
| Michigan | 14 | #596 | 0.6× |
| Arizona | 12 | #589 | 1.0× |
| Georgia | 10 | #904 | 0.8× |
| Tennessee | 10 | #711 | 0.8× |
| Louisiana | 9 | #521 | 1.2× |
| North Carolina | 9 | #922 | 0.5× |
Where Rayden is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Rayden is most over-represented in Hawaii: since 1991 it was given 5.3 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 Rayden 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 22,007 babies since 1880, Rayden is the second most given (32% of them). In 2025 it was given to 297 of their 1,134 babies (26%), again the second 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 Rayden
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 Rayden and names like it
- Compare Rayden and RaidenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sRayden peaked in 2022.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Rayden since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Rayden: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Rayden.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Rayden alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with RMost given first.