Rayshawn
Rayshawn was given to 36 boys in 2025, #3,295 among boys’ names; 4,182 Americans have been recorded with it since 1969 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,050 Americans named Rayshawn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 27 years old and half are between 18 and 36.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rayshawn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Rayshawn?
#3,295 among boys’ names, 2025
Rayshawn fell from #2,402 in 2015 to #3,295 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 28.2 to 21.1 per million.
137 babies in 1995, the peak
Rayshawn peaked in 1995, when 137 babies were given it (129 boys, #977 among boys’ names). The 36 births of 2025 are 26% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 36 | #3,295 | 21.1 |
| 2024 | 23 | #4,527 | 13.3 |
| 2023 | 41 | #3,048 | 24.0 |
| 2022 | 45 | #2,857 | 25.8 |
| 2021 | 43 | #2,901 | 24.6 |
| 2020 | 44 | #2,794 | 25.5 |
| 2019 | 49 | #2,649 | 27.3 |
| 2018 | 46 | #2,696 | 25.3 |
| 2017 | 60 | #2,231 | 32.4 |
| 2016 | 52 | #2,467 | 27.4 |
Every recorded year (56)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 54 | #2,402 | 28.2 |
| 2014 | 64 | #2,149 | 33.3 |
| 2013 | 75 | #1,893 | 39.6 |
| 2012 | 88 | #1,726 | 46.4 |
| 2011 | 81 | #1,792 | 42.6 |
| 2010 | 99 | #1,597 | 51.6 |
| 2009 | 89 | #1,740 | 44.9 |
| 2008 | 90 | #1,705 | 44.1 |
| 2007 | 104 | #1,524 | 50.1 |
| 2006 | 132 | #1,271 | 64.2 |
| 2005 | 84 | #1,628 | 42.1 |
| 2004 | 97 | #1,443 | 48.9 |
| 2003 | 104 | #1,332 | 52.6 |
| 2002 | 93 | #1,408 | 47.9 |
| 2001 | 116 | #1,181 | 59.7 |
| 2000 | 120 | #1,158 | 61.1 |
| 1999 | 127 | #1,068 | 66.1 |
| 1998 | 116 | #1,106 | 60.7 |
| 1997 | 128 | #1,002 | 67.9 |
| 1996 | 100 | #1,169 | 52.8 |
| 1995 | 129 | #977 | 67.8 |
| 1994 | 122 | #1,004 | 63.1 |
| 1993 | 120 | #993 | 61.2 |
| 1992 | 112 | #1,032 | 56.1 |
| 1991 | 125 | #953 | 61.9 |
| 1990 | 103 | #1,043 | 50.1 |
| 1989 | 100 | #1,030 | 50.0 |
| 1988 | 81 | #1,114 | 42.3 |
| 1987 | 80 | #1,074 | 42.8 |
| 1986 | 81 | #1,035 | 44.0 |
| 1985 | 87 | #980 | 47.1 |
| 1984 | 50 | #1,345 | 27.7 |
| 1983 | 45 | #1,420 | 25.1 |
| 1982 | 35 | #1,694 | 19.3 |
| 1981 | 52 | #1,288 | 29.0 |
| 1980 | 46 | #1,405 | 25.8 |
| 1979 | 38 | #1,558 | 22.1 |
| 1978 | 31 | #1,745 | 18.9 |
| 1977 | 35 | #1,600 | 21.3 |
| 1976 | 34 | #1,597 | 21.7 |
| 1975 | 29 | #1,745 | 18.6 |
| 1974 | 22 | #2,035 | 14.0 |
| 1973 | 15 | #2,579 | 9.6 |
| 1972 | 13 | #2,790 | 8.0 |
| 1971 | 14 | #2,660 | 7.9 |
| 1969 | 5 | #4,876 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Rayshawn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 4,182 Americans recorded as Rayshawn, 4% are girls and 96% boys. In 2025 it went to 36 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 Rayshawn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rayshawn, and how old are they?
4,050 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 4,182 Americans ever recorded as Rayshawn. The median Rayshawn alive today is 27 years old; half are between 18 and 36.
The 2020 Census counted 2,779 people named Rayshawn (153 women and girls, 2,626 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,868 born in the U.S. The Census count is 28% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 303 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,470 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,650 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 627 |
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 Rayshawn born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ohio | 5 | #1,431 | 3.5× |
Where Rayshawn is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Rayshawn is most over-represented in Ohio: since 1969 it was given 3.5 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 Rayshawn 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 4 names spelled alike, given to 11,864 babies since 1880, Rayshawn is the second most given (35% of them). In 2025 it was given to 36 of their 72 babies (50%), again the second 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 Rayshawn
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 Rayshawn and names like it
- Compare Rayshawn and RashawnBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sRayshawn peaked in 1995.
- Ohio’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Rayshawn since 1910.
- The top names of 1995The year the most babies were named Rayshawn.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Rayshawn alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with RMost given first.