Raylen
Raylen is given to both girls and boys: 43 girls and 97 boys were given it in 2025 (#3,562 among girls’ names and #1,696 among boys’, #2,825 among all names counting both); 2,422 Americans have been recorded with it since 1962 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,400 Americans named Raylen 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 14.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Raylen by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Raylen?
#1,696 among boys’ names, 2025
Raylen fell from #1,544 in 2015 to #1,696 in 2025 among boys’ names, although its share of boys born rose from 55.3 to 56.8 per million.
161 babies in 2015, the peak
Raylen peaked in 2015, when 161 babies were given it (106 boys, #1,544 among boys’ names). The 140 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 87% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 43 | #3,562 | 97 | #1,696 |
| 2024 | 37 | #4,018 | 90 | #1,816 |
| 2023 | 30 | #4,632 | 72 | #2,072 |
| 2022 | 27 | #4,996 | 91 | #1,800 |
| 2021 | 36 | #4,069 | 96 | #1,706 |
| 2020 | 44 | #3,486 | 107 | #1,553 |
| 2019 | 49 | #3,263 | 93 | #1,711 |
| 2018 | 39 | #3,829 | 80 | #1,883 |
| 2017 | 43 | #3,611 | 81 | #1,840 |
| 2016 | 34 | #4,331 | 93 | #1,692 |
Every recorded year (31)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 55 | #3,081 | 106 | #1,544 |
| 2014 | 49 | #3,309 | 105 | #1,531 |
| 2013 | 46 | #3,447 | 96 | #1,609 |
| 2012 | 46 | #3,514 | 102 | #1,559 |
| 2011 | 32 | #4,548 | 86 | #1,727 |
| 2010 | 30 | #4,835 | 42 | #2,859 |
| 2009 | 39 | #4,001 | 26 | #4,012 |
| 2008 | 13 | #9,368 | 18 | #5,207 |
| 2007 | 27 | #5,351 | 19 | #4,938 |
| 2006 | 21 | #6,298 | 12 | #6,808 |
| 2005 | 9 | #11,605 | 13 | #6,136 |
| 2004 | 7 | #13,857 | 14 | #5,725 |
| 2003 | 5 | #17,773 | 9 | #7,691 |
| 2002 | 13 | #8,178 | 9 | #7,481 |
| 2001 | 6 | #14,902 | 5 | #11,897 |
| 2000 | 14 | #7,482 | 11 | #6,211 |
| 1999 | 11 | #8,659 | 11 | #5,953 |
| 1998 | 6 | #13,721 | 10 | #6,186 |
| 1997 | under 5 | 7 | #7,926 | |
| 1990 | under 5 | 5 | #9,182 | |
| 1962 | under 5 | 5 | #4,500 |
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 Raylen a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,422 Americans recorded as Raylen, 33% are girls and 67% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Raylen: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Raylen, and how old are they?
2,400 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,422 Americans ever recorded as Raylen. The median Raylen alive today is 10 years old; half are between 5 and 14.
The 2020 Census counted 1,583 people named Raylen (622 women and girls, 961 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,676 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 4 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 5 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 666 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,730 |
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 Raylen born?
The states with the most babies named Raylen are Florida, Georgia and Tennessee, with 49% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 11 | #2,033 | 0.6× |
| Georgia | 10 | #905 | 1.1× |
| Tennessee | 8 | #827 | 1.2× |
| California | 7 | #2,164 | 0.2× |
| Illinois | 7 | #1,111 | 0.1× |
| Texas | 6 | #2,499 | 0.6× |
| North Carolina | 5 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,430 | 0.3× |
Where Raylen is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Raylen is most over-represented in North Carolina: since 1962 it was given 1.3 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 Raylen 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, Raylen is the second most given (22% of them). In 2025 it was given to 140 of their 511 babies (27%), 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 Raylen
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 Raylen and names like it
- Compare Raylen and RaylanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sRaylen peaked in 2015.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Raylen since 1910.
- The top names of 2015The year the most babies were named Raylen.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Raylen alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with RMost given first.