Raylen — #1809 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Raylen

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,514 babies named Raylen between 1962 and 2024, spanning 63 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Raylen currently holds the #1809 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2020, when 107 babies received it in a single year. Raylen is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 766 additional births since 1998.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Raylen performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 884 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Raylen shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 116 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by North Carolina and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Raylen in 20 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Raylen 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 1,514 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.