Rayon
Rayon was given to 6 boys in 2025, #11,694 among boys’ names; 547 Americans have been recorded with it since 1975 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rayon by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Rayon?
#11,694 among boys’ names, 2025
Rayon fell from #5,013 in 2015 to #11,694 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 9.9 to 3.5 per million.
25 babies in 2008, the peak
Rayon peaked in 2008, when 25 boys were given it, #4,114 among boys’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 24% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #11,694 | 3.5 |
| 2024 | 12 | #7,165 | 7.0 |
| 2023 | 12 | #7,196 | 7.0 |
| 2022 | 9 | #8,831 | 5.2 |
| 2021 | 16 | #5,723 | 9.1 |
| 2020 | 16 | #5,637 | 9.3 |
| 2019 | 13 | #6,691 | 7.2 |
| 2018 | 8 | #9,475 | 4.4 |
| 2017 | 12 | #7,009 | 6.5 |
| 2016 | 17 | #5,498 | 9.0 |
Every recorded year (48)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 19 | #5,013 | 9.9 |
| 2014 | 12 | #6,962 | 6.2 |
| 2013 | 23 | #4,281 | 12.2 |
| 2012 | 15 | #5,921 | 7.9 |
| 2011 | 15 | #5,877 | 7.9 |
| 2010 | 16 | #5,675 | 8.3 |
| 2009 | 25 | #4,131 | 12.6 |
| 2008 | 25 | #4,114 | 12.3 |
| 2007 | 18 | #5,164 | 8.7 |
| 2006 | 15 | #5,721 | 7.3 |
| 2005 | 13 | #6,137 | 6.5 |
| 2004 | 7 | #9,706 | 3.5 |
| 2003 | 8 | #8,440 | 4.0 |
| 2002 | 10 | #6,931 | 5.2 |
| 2001 | 8 | #8,138 | 4.1 |
| 2000 | 8 | #8,026 | 4.1 |
| 1999 | 7 | #8,508 | 3.6 |
| 1998 | 9 | #6,711 | 4.7 |
| 1997 | 14 | #4,619 | 7.4 |
| 1996 | 8 | #6,961 | 4.2 |
| 1995 | 7 | #7,611 | 3.7 |
| 1994 | 7 | #7,574 | 3.6 |
| 1993 | 13 | #4,633 | 6.6 |
| 1992 | 5 | #9,497 | 2.5 |
| 1991 | 16 | #3,776 | 7.9 |
| 1990 | 10 | #5,294 | 4.9 |
| 1989 | 10 | #5,085 | 5.0 |
| 1988 | 5 | #8,233 | 2.6 |
| 1987 | 9 | #4,868 | 4.8 |
| 1986 | 13 | #3,606 | 7.1 |
| 1985 | 5 | #7,343 | 2.7 |
| 1983 | 5 | #7,060 | 2.8 |
| 1982 | 5 | #7,130 | 2.8 |
| 1981 | 5 | #7,042 | 2.8 |
| 1980 | 6 | #6,068 | 3.4 |
| 1979 | 6 | #5,894 | 3.5 |
| 1978 | 8 | #4,467 | 4.9 |
| 1975 | 5 | #6,119 | 3.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Rayon a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 547 Americans recorded as Rayon, 2% are girls and 98% boys. In 2025 it went to 6 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 Rayon: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rayon, and how old are they?
An estimated 534 Americans named Rayon and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 11 and 30. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 857 people named Rayon (78 women and girls, 779 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 471 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.8 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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 8 names spelled alike, given to 17,037 babies since 1880, Rayon is the fifth most given (3.2% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6 of their 904 babies (<1%), the sixth most given that year.
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 Rayon
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 Rayon and names like it
- Compare Rayon and RayanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sRayon peaked in 2008.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Rayon since 1910.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Rayon.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Rayon alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with RMost given first.