Rayonna
Rayonna was given to 6 girls in 2025, #14,539 among girls’ names; 999 Americans have been recorded with it since 1990 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rayonna by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Rayonna mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Rayonna is “a female given name originating as a coinage, of African-American usage.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Rayonna?
#14,539 among girls’ names, 2025
Rayonna fell from #8,341 in 2015 to #14,539 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 7.8 to 3.7 per million.
60 babies in 2007, the peak
Rayonna peaked in 2007, when 60 girls were given it, #2,986 among girls’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 10% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #14,539 | 3.7 |
| 2024 | 6 | #14,895 | 3.7 |
| 2023 | 13 | #8,392 | 8.1 |
| 2022 | 8 | #12,000 | 4.9 |
| 2021 | 14 | #7,941 | 8.5 |
| 2020 | 10 | #10,108 | 6.2 |
| 2019 | 21 | #5,939 | 12.5 |
| 2018 | 17 | #7,034 | 10.0 |
| 2017 | 19 | #6,480 | 11.0 |
| 2016 | 27 | #5,096 | 15.2 |
Every recorded year (36)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 14 | #8,341 | 7.8 |
| 2014 | 35 | #4,245 | 19.6 |
| 2013 | 27 | #5,110 | 15.4 |
| 2012 | 27 | #5,219 | 15.3 |
| 2011 | 39 | #3,897 | 22.2 |
| 2010 | 49 | #3,350 | 27.6 |
| 2009 | 60 | #2,926 | 32.7 |
| 2008 | 44 | #3,695 | 23.3 |
| 2007 | 60 | #2,986 | 31.2 |
| 2006 | 47 | #3,458 | 24.7 |
| 2005 | 48 | #3,248 | 26.0 |
| 2004 | 49 | #3,161 | 26.7 |
| 2003 | 38 | #3,713 | 20.8 |
| 2002 | 44 | #3,228 | 24.5 |
| 2001 | 35 | #3,763 | 19.4 |
| 2000 | 50 | #2,887 | 27.5 |
| 1999 | 36 | #3,486 | 20.3 |
| 1998 | 27 | #4,212 | 15.3 |
| 1997 | 26 | #4,214 | 14.9 |
| 1996 | 17 | #5,706 | 9.7 |
| 1995 | 20 | #4,971 | 11.4 |
| 1994 | 18 | #5,396 | 10.1 |
| 1993 | 14 | #6,528 | 7.7 |
| 1992 | 14 | #6,561 | 7.6 |
| 1991 | 13 | #6,881 | 6.9 |
| 1990 | 7 | #11,072 | 3.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Rayonna a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Rayonna has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 36 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Rayonna: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rayonna, and how old are they?
An estimated 988 Americans named Rayonna and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 15 and 25. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 722 people named Rayonna (720 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 936 born in the U.S. The Census count is 23% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
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 21,422 babies since 1880, Rayonna is the sixth most given (4.7% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6 of their 425 babies (1.4%), again the sixth 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 Rayonna
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 Rayonna and names like it
- Compare Rayonna and RaynaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sRayonna peaked in 2007.
- Ohio’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Rayonna since 1910.
- Coined namesWiktionary’s origin for Rayonna: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Rayonna.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Rayonna alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with RMost given first.