Rayshaun
Rayshaun was last recorded in 2024, when 8 babies were given it; 1,022 Americans have been recorded with it between 1977 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rayshaun by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Rayshaun?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #9,667, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
39 babies in 2008, the peak
Rayshaun peaked in 2008, when 39 boys were given it, #3,047 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 8 | #9,667 | 4.6 |
| 2023 | 10 | #8,121 | 5.8 |
| 2022 | 12 | #7,148 | 6.9 |
| 2021 | 13 | #6,589 | 7.4 |
| 2020 | 11 | #7,388 | 6.4 |
| 2019 | 11 | #7,517 | 6.1 |
| 2018 | 17 | #5,488 | 9.4 |
| 2017 | 17 | #5,468 | 9.2 |
| 2016 | 11 | #7,493 | 5.8 |
| 2015 | 12 | #6,985 | 6.3 |
Every recorded year (48)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 14 | #6,233 | 7.3 |
| 2013 | 20 | #4,755 | 10.6 |
| 2012 | 23 | #4,354 | 12.1 |
| 2011 | 31 | #3,495 | 16.3 |
| 2010 | 36 | #3,166 | 18.8 |
| 2009 | 28 | #3,803 | 14.1 |
| 2008 | 39 | #3,047 | 19.1 |
| 2007 | 33 | #3,363 | 15.9 |
| 2006 | 33 | #3,289 | 16.1 |
| 2005 | 28 | #3,504 | 14.0 |
| 2004 | 32 | #3,133 | 16.1 |
| 2003 | 20 | #4,234 | 10.1 |
| 2002 | 32 | #2,924 | 16.5 |
| 2001 | 30 | #3,038 | 15.4 |
| 2000 | 29 | #3,052 | 14.8 |
| 1999 | 32 | #2,706 | 16.7 |
| 1998 | 23 | #3,367 | 12.0 |
| 1997 | 24 | #3,132 | 12.7 |
| 1996 | 19 | #3,638 | 10.0 |
| 1995 | 29 | #2,604 | 15.2 |
| 1994 | 34 | #2,328 | 17.6 |
| 1993 | 23 | #3,006 | 11.7 |
| 1992 | 25 | #2,800 | 12.5 |
| 1991 | 24 | #2,801 | 11.9 |
| 1990 | 16 | #3,733 | 7.8 |
| 1989 | 16 | #3,578 | 8.0 |
| 1988 | 20 | #2,831 | 10.4 |
| 1987 | 17 | #3,041 | 9.1 |
| 1986 | 17 | #2,978 | 9.2 |
| 1985 | 15 | #3,180 | 8.1 |
| 1984 | 15 | #3,063 | 8.3 |
| 1983 | 15 | #3,040 | 8.4 |
| 1982 | 24 | #2,198 | 13.2 |
| 1981 | 22 | #2,320 | 12.3 |
| 1980 | 27 | #2,041 | 15.1 |
| 1979 | 5 | #6,837 | 2.9 |
| 1978 | 20 | #2,356 | 12.2 |
| 1977 | 10 | #3,785 | 6.1 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Rayshaun a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Rayshaun has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 48 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Rayshaun: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rayshaun, and how old are they?
An estimated 992 Americans named Rayshaun and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 25 years old and half are between 17 and 34. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 746 people named Rayshaun (30 women and girls, 716 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 950 born in the U.S. The Census count is 21% 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 8,440 babies since 1880, Rayshaun is the third most given (12% 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 Rayshaun
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 Rayshaun and names like it
- Compare Rayshaun and RashaunBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sRayshaun peaked in 2008.
- Ohio’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Rayshaun since 1910.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Rayshaun.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Rayshaun alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with RMost given first.