Raylon
Raylon was given to 40 boys in 2025, #3,075 among boys’ names; 1,305 Americans have been recorded with it since 1962 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,280 Americans named Raylon and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 7 and 21.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Raylon by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Raylon?
#3,075 among boys’ names, 2025
Raylon fell from #1,868 in 2015 to #3,075 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 41.2 to 23.4 per million.
79 babies in 2012, the peak
Raylon peaked in 2012, when 79 boys were given it, #1,857 among boys’ names. The 40 births of 2025 are 51% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 40 | #3,075 | 23.4 |
| 2024 | 44 | #2,902 | 25.5 |
| 2023 | 50 | #2,646 | 29.2 |
| 2022 | 53 | #2,583 | 30.4 |
| 2021 | 57 | #2,404 | 32.6 |
| 2020 | 62 | #2,228 | 35.9 |
| 2019 | 64 | #2,207 | 35.7 |
| 2018 | 46 | #2,695 | 25.3 |
| 2017 | 52 | #2,479 | 28.1 |
| 2016 | 60 | #2,250 | 31.6 |
Every recorded year (53)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 79 | #1,868 | 41.2 |
| 2014 | 55 | #2,362 | 28.6 |
| 2013 | 54 | #2,355 | 28.5 |
| 2012 | 79 | #1,857 | 41.6 |
| 2011 | 41 | #2,889 | 21.6 |
| 2010 | 32 | #3,428 | 16.7 |
| 2009 | 20 | #4,888 | 10.1 |
| 2008 | 21 | #4,664 | 10.3 |
| 2007 | 16 | #5,622 | 7.7 |
| 2006 | 17 | #5,251 | 8.3 |
| 2005 | 15 | #5,512 | 7.5 |
| 2004 | 22 | #4,097 | 11.1 |
| 2003 | 13 | #5,804 | 6.6 |
| 2002 | 9 | #7,482 | 4.6 |
| 2001 | 17 | #4,631 | 8.7 |
| 2000 | 13 | #5,506 | 6.6 |
| 1999 | 14 | #4,967 | 7.3 |
| 1998 | 19 | #3,812 | 9.9 |
| 1997 | 16 | #4,190 | 8.5 |
| 1996 | 13 | #4,816 | 6.9 |
| 1995 | 14 | #4,447 | 7.4 |
| 1994 | 9 | #6,232 | 4.7 |
| 1993 | 14 | #4,391 | 7.1 |
| 1992 | 13 | #4,513 | 6.5 |
| 1991 | 7 | #7,105 | 3.5 |
| 1990 | 11 | #4,915 | 5.4 |
| 1989 | 9 | #5,490 | 4.5 |
| 1988 | 12 | #4,104 | 6.3 |
| 1987 | 9 | #4,867 | 4.8 |
| 1986 | 7 | #5,787 | 3.8 |
| 1985 | 8 | #5,044 | 4.3 |
| 1984 | 6 | #6,144 | 3.3 |
| 1982 | 8 | #4,904 | 4.4 |
| 1981 | 5 | #7,040 | 2.8 |
| 1980 | 8 | #4,844 | 4.5 |
| 1979 | 7 | #5,240 | 4.1 |
| 1978 | 7 | #4,930 | 4.3 |
| 1977 | 8 | #4,483 | 4.9 |
| 1976 | 7 | #4,801 | 4.5 |
| 1975 | 5 | #6,117 | 3.2 |
| 1967 | 9 | #2,936 | 5.2 |
| 1964 | 6 | #3,939 | 3.0 |
| 1962 | 6 | #3,939 | 2.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Raylon a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,305 Americans recorded as Raylon, 1% are girls and 99% boys. In 2025 it went to 40 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Raylon: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Raylon, and how old are they?
1,280 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,305 Americans ever recorded as Raylon. The median Raylon alive today is 12 years old; half are between 7 and 21.
The 2020 Census counted 928 people named Raylon (85 women and girls, 843 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 989 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 | 9 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 46 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 138 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 359 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 728 |
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 Raylon born?
The states with the most babies named Raylon are Texas, Louisiana and Georgia, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Louisiana is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 6 | #2,500 | 1.5× |
| Louisiana | 6 | #748 | 3.0× |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,507 | 0.3× |
Where Raylon is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Raylon is most over-represented in Texas: since 1962 it was given 1.5 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 Raylon 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, Raylon is the third most given (12% of them). In 2025 it was given to 40 of their 511 babies (7.8%), again the third 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 Raylon
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 Raylon and names like it
- Compare Raylon and RaylanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sRaylon peaked in 2012.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Raylon since 1910.
- The top names of 2012The year the most babies were named Raylon.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Raylon alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with RMost given first.