Rayquan
Rayquan was given to 11 boys in 2025, #7,560 among boys’ names; 1,240 Americans have been recorded with it since 1988 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,210 Americans named Rayquan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 25 years old and half are between 17 and 29.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rayquan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Rayquan?
#7,560 among boys’ names, 2025
Rayquan fell from #3,963 in 2015 to #7,560 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 14.1 to 6.4 per million.
96 babies in 1996, the peak
Rayquan peaked in 1996, when 96 boys were given it, #1,191 among boys’ names. The 11 births of 2025 are 11% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #7,560 | 6.4 |
| 2024 | 12 | #7,166 | 7.0 |
| 2023 | 11 | #7,632 | 6.4 |
| 2022 | 10 | #8,167 | 5.7 |
| 2021 | 14 | #6,268 | 8.0 |
| 2020 | 8 | #9,362 | 4.6 |
| 2019 | 15 | #6,034 | 8.4 |
| 2018 | 16 | #5,719 | 8.8 |
| 2017 | 14 | #6,266 | 7.6 |
| 2016 | 11 | #7,492 | 5.8 |
Every recorded year (38)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 27 | #3,963 | 14.1 |
| 2014 | 14 | #6,232 | 7.3 |
| 2013 | 22 | #4,429 | 11.6 |
| 2012 | 28 | #3,779 | 14.8 |
| 2011 | 26 | #3,963 | 13.7 |
| 2010 | 39 | #2,999 | 20.3 |
| 2009 | 31 | #3,529 | 15.6 |
| 2008 | 33 | #3,406 | 16.2 |
| 2007 | 46 | #2,674 | 22.2 |
| 2006 | 41 | #2,813 | 19.9 |
| 2005 | 41 | #2,687 | 20.5 |
| 2004 | 43 | #2,557 | 21.7 |
| 2003 | 46 | #2,340 | 23.3 |
| 2002 | 52 | #2,081 | 26.8 |
| 2001 | 55 | #1,970 | 28.3 |
| 2000 | 72 | #1,632 | 36.7 |
| 1999 | 70 | #1,575 | 36.5 |
| 1998 | 87 | #1,355 | 45.5 |
| 1997 | 76 | #1,432 | 40.3 |
| 1996 | 96 | #1,191 | 50.7 |
| 1995 | 73 | #1,385 | 38.3 |
| 1994 | 43 | #1,959 | 22.3 |
| 1993 | 14 | #4,392 | 7.1 |
| 1992 | 10 | #5,554 | 5.0 |
| 1991 | 10 | #5,410 | 4.9 |
| 1990 | 7 | #6,994 | 3.4 |
| 1989 | 8 | #6,088 | 4.0 |
| 1988 | 8 | #5,614 | 4.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Rayquan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Rayquan has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 38 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Rayquan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rayquan, and how old are they?
1,210 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,240 Americans ever recorded as Rayquan. The median Rayquan alive today is 25 years old; half are between 17 and 29.
The 2020 Census counted 815 people named Rayquan (7 women and girls, 808 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,159 born in the U.S. The Census count is 30% 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 260 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 771 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 184 |
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 Rayquan born?
The states with the most babies named Rayquan are New York, North Carolina and Virginia, with 58% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Virginia is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 122 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| North Carolina | 74 | not ranked | 2.0× |
| Virginia | 64 | not ranked | 2.1× |
| South Carolina | 49 | not ranked | 2.9× |
| New Jersey | 33 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Florida | 31 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Pennsylvania | 24 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Illinois | 20 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Georgia | 16 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Ohio | 12 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Rayquan is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Rayquan is most over-represented in New York: since 1988 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 Rayquan 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 7 names spelled alike, given to 3,452 babies since 1880, Rayquan is the second most given (36% of them).
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 Rayquan
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 Rayquan and names like it
- Compare Rayquan and RaquanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sRayquan peaked in 1996.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Rayquan since 1910.
- The top names of 1996The year the most babies were named Rayquan.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Rayquan alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with RMost given first.