Raygen
Raygen was last recorded in 2023, when 6 babies were given it; 636 Americans have been recorded with it between 1977 and 2023 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Raygen by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Raygen?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,788, in 2023; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
42 babies in 2009, the peak
Raygen peaked in 2009, when 42 babies were given it (34 girls, #4,456 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 6 | #14,788 | under 5 | |
| 2022 | 6 | #14,909 | under 5 | |
| 2021 | 9 | #10,951 | 5 | #13,636 |
| 2020 | 14 | #7,869 | under 5 | |
| 2019 | 8 | #12,197 | under 5 | |
| 2018 | 21 | #5,961 | 9 | #8,670 |
| 2017 | 28 | #4,898 | 5 | #13,795 |
| 2016 | 32 | #4,501 | 6 | #11,816 |
| 2015 | 35 | #4,209 | under 5 | |
| 2014 | 26 | #5,278 | 9 | #8,630 |
Every recorded year (29)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 30 | #4,732 | 8 | #9,462 |
| 2012 | 37 | #4,101 | 5 | #13,759 |
| 2011 | 25 | #5,504 | 7 | #10,524 |
| 2010 | 27 | #5,211 | under 5 | |
| 2009 | 34 | #4,456 | 8 | #9,671 |
| 2008 | 28 | #5,245 | 5 | #14,136 |
| 2007 | 23 | #6,040 | under 5 | |
| 2006 | 38 | #3,977 | under 5 | |
| 2005 | 15 | #7,821 | under 5 | |
| 2004 | 19 | #6,436 | 5 | #12,792 |
| 2003 | 19 | #6,249 | under 5 | |
| 2002 | 18 | #6,326 | under 5 | |
| 2001 | 13 | #8,077 | under 5 | |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,710 | under 5 | |
| 1999 | 13 | #7,606 | under 5 | |
| 1998 | 10 | #9,111 | under 5 | |
| 1997 | 10 | #8,859 | under 5 | |
| 1995 | 5 | #15,170 | under 5 | |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,813 | under 5 |
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 Raygen a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 636 Americans recorded as Raygen, 89% are girls and 11% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Raygen: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Raygen, and how old are they?
An estimated 630 Americans named Raygen and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 11 and 20. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 553 people named Raygen (471 women and girls, 82 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 594 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below that prediction.
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 8 names spelled alike, given to 32,299 babies since 1880, Raygen is the sixth most given (2.0% of them). In 2025 none of their 621 babies recorded by SSA was a Raygen (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Raygen
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 Raygen and names like it
- Compare Raygen and RaeganBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sRaygen peaked in 2009.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Raygen since 1910.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Raygen.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Raygen alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with RMost given first.