Raylan
Raylan was given to 311 boys in 2025, #802 among boys’ names; 7,442 Americans have been recorded with it since 1975 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 7,380 Americans named Raylan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 5 and 12.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Raylan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Raylan mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Raylan is “a male given name originating as a coinage.”
Modern coinage from Ray, compare Rylan, Braylon.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Raylan?
#802 among boys’ names, 2025
Raylan fell from #473 in 2015 to #802 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.33 to 0.18 per 1,000.
687 babies in 2015, the peak
Raylan peaked in 2015, when 687 babies were given it (630 boys, #473 among boys’ names). The 331 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 48% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 311 | #802 | 0.18 |
| 2024 | 370 | #717 | 0.21 |
| 2023 | 408 | #667 | 0.24 |
| 2022 | 372 | #710 | 0.21 |
| 2021 | 429 | #645 | 0.25 |
| 2020 | 446 | #614 | 0.26 |
| 2019 | 401 | #661 | 0.22 |
| 2018 | 425 | #629 | 0.23 |
| 2017 | 421 | #620 | 0.23 |
| 2016 | 486 | #572 | 0.26 |
Every recorded year (31)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 630 | #473 | 0.33 |
| 2014 | 566 | #500 | 0.29 |
| 2013 | 522 | #512 | 0.28 |
| 2012 | 487 | #538 | 0.26 |
| 2011 | 331 | #698 | 0.17 |
| 2010 | 132 | #1,305 | 0.07 |
| 2009 | 16 | #5,748 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 9 | #8,849 | under 0.01 |
| 2007 | 7 | #10,627 | under 0.01 |
| 2006 | 11 | #7,308 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 14 | #5,803 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 10 | #7,393 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 6 | #10,370 | under 0.01 |
| 1999 | 6 | #9,611 | under 0.01 |
| 1998 | 6 | #9,369 | under 0.01 |
| 1996 | 5 | #10,189 | under 0.01 |
| 1994 | 6 | #8,561 | under 0.01 |
| 1992 | 7 | #7,219 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 5 | #7,055 | under 0.01 |
| 1977 | 6 | #5,682 | under 0.01 |
| 1975 | 5 | #6,116 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Raylan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 7,442 Americans recorded as Raylan, 8% are girls and 92% boys. In 2025 it went to 20 girls and 311 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Raylan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Raylan, and how old are they?
7,380 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 7,442 Americans ever recorded as Raylan. The median Raylan alive today is 9 years old; half are between 5 and 12.
The 2020 Census counted 4,567 people named Raylan (454 women and girls, 4,113 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,985 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 10 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 22 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,130 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 6,220 |
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 Raylan born?
The states with the most babies named Raylan are Texas, Tennessee and Florida, with 28% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Tennessee is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 29 | #890 | 0.8× |
| Tennessee | 22 | #381 | 2.8× |
| Florida | 21 | #750 | 0.8× |
| California | 19 | #1,109 | 0.3× |
| Georgia | 18 | #580 | 1.4× |
| Kentucky | 16 | #331 | 3.9× |
| North Carolina | 12 | #758 | 1.5× |
| Alabama | 12 | #444 | 1.9× |
| Arkansas | 12 | #299 | 2.0× |
| Ohio | 11 | #785 | 0.9× |
Where Raylan is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Raylan is most over-represented in Kentucky: since 1975 it was given 3.9 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 Raylan 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 11,169 babies since 1880, Raylan is the most given (67% of them). In 2025 it was given to 331 of their 511 babies (65%), 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 Raylan
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 Raylan and names like it
- Compare Raylan and RaylenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sRaylan peaked in 2015.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Raylan since 1910.
- Coined namesWiktionary’s origin for Raylan: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2015The year the most babies were named Raylan.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Raylan alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with RMost given first.