Raylan — #716 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Raylan

The Social Security Administration has registered 6,540 babies named Raylan between 1975 and 2024, spanning 50 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Raylan currently holds the #716 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2015, when 630 babies received it in a single year. Raylan is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 566 additional births since 2001.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Raylan performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 4,399 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Raylan shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 632 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Tennessee and Kentucky. In total, SSA state-level files list Raylan in 39 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Raylan 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 6,540 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.