Rayn
Rayn is given to both girls and boys: 27 girls and 16 boys were given it in 2025 (#4,960 among girls’ names and #5,785 among boys’, #6,274 among all names counting both); 1,252 Americans have been recorded with it since 1973 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,220 Americans named Rayn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 8 and 30.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rayn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Rayn?
#4,960 among girls’ names, 2025
Rayn rose from #6,197 in 2015 to #4,960 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 11.8 to 16.8 per million.
49 babies in 2021, the peak
Rayn peaked in 2021, when 49 babies were given it (34 girls, #4,219 among girls’ names). The 43 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 88% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 27 | #4,960 | 16 | #5,785 |
| 2024 | 29 | #4,749 | 10 | #8,184 |
| 2023 | 37 | #4,026 | 11 | #7,631 |
| 2022 | 28 | #4,876 | 11 | #7,633 |
| 2021 | 34 | #4,219 | 15 | #5,969 |
| 2020 | 20 | #6,029 | 11 | #7,387 |
| 2019 | 29 | #4,749 | 12 | #7,080 |
| 2018 | 25 | #5,287 | 14 | #6,257 |
| 2017 | 20 | #6,234 | 11 | #7,436 |
| 2016 | 21 | #6,145 | 8 | #9,475 |
Every recorded year (52)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 21 | #6,197 | 9 | #8,569 |
| 2014 | 24 | #5,596 | 11 | #7,437 |
| 2013 | 14 | #8,478 | 7 | #10,478 |
| 2012 | 21 | #6,290 | 13 | #6,563 |
| 2011 | 24 | #5,687 | 17 | #5,374 |
| 2010 | 23 | #5,934 | 12 | #6,993 |
| 2009 | 18 | #7,280 | 7 | #10,708 |
| 2008 | 33 | #4,621 | 8 | #9,650 |
| 2007 | 22 | #6,276 | 10 | #8,034 |
| 2006 | 24 | #5,668 | 11 | #7,309 |
| 2005 | 15 | #7,822 | 11 | #6,999 |
| 2004 | 22 | #5,710 | 12 | #6,426 |
| 2003 | 15 | #7,491 | 5 | #12,327 |
| 2002 | 23 | #5,227 | under 5 | |
| 2001 | 20 | #5,756 | 7 | #9,008 |
| 2000 | 13 | #7,931 | 8 | #8,025 |
| 1999 | 9 | #10,129 | 5 | #11,226 |
| 1998 | 14 | #6,999 | 9 | #6,710 |
| 1997 | 8 | #10,562 | 7 | #7,927 |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,669 | 7 | #7,779 |
| 1995 | 9 | #9,361 | under 5 | |
| 1994 | 8 | #10,291 | 8 | #6,830 |
| 1993 | under 5 | 7 | #7,433 | |
| 1992 | under 5 | 14 | #4,272 | |
| 1991 | under 5 | 7 | #7,107 | |
| 1990 | under 5 | 12 | #4,608 | |
| 1989 | under 5 | 17 | #3,410 | |
| 1988 | under 5 | 17 | #3,180 | |
| 1987 | under 5 | 24 | #2,382 | |
| 1986 | under 5 | 23 | #2,409 | |
| 1985 | under 5 | 25 | #2,210 | |
| 1984 | under 5 | 21 | #2,420 | |
| 1983 | under 5 | 13 | #3,376 | |
| 1982 | under 5 | 22 | #2,324 | |
| 1981 | under 5 | 14 | #3,179 | |
| 1980 | under 5 | 20 | #2,510 | |
| 1979 | under 5 | 14 | #3,127 | |
| 1978 | under 5 | 8 | #4,466 | |
| 1977 | under 5 | 10 | #3,784 | |
| 1976 | under 5 | 11 | #3,429 | |
| 1974 | under 5 | 5 | #5,821 | |
| 1973 | under 5 | 5 | #5,706 |
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 Rayn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,252 Americans recorded as Rayn, 53% are girls and 47% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Rayn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rayn, and how old are they?
1,220 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,252 Americans ever recorded as Rayn. The median Rayn alive today is 18 years old; half are between 8 and 30.
The 2020 Census counted 962 people named Rayn (472 women and girls, 490 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 991 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 67 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 245 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 441 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 472 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 8,676 babies since 1880, Rayn is the third most given (14% of them). In 2025 it was given to 43 of their 390 babies (11%), 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 Rayn
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 Rayn and names like it
- Compare Rayn and RainBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sRayn peaked in 2021.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Rayn since 1910.
- The top names of 2021The year the most babies were named Rayn.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Rayn alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with RMost given first.