Rayshon
Rayshon was given to 5 boys in 2025, #13,445 among boys’ names; 806 Americans have been recorded with it since 1971 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rayshon by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Rayshon?
#13,445 among boys’ names, 2025
Rayshon fell from #10,377 in 2015 to #13,445 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 3.7 to 2.9 per million.
33 babies in 1995, the peak
Rayshon peaked in 1995, when 33 boys were given it, #2,383 among boys’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 15% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #13,445 | 2.9 |
| 2024 | 9 | #8,821 | 5.2 |
| 2023 | 11 | #7,633 | 6.4 |
| 2021 | 9 | #8,674 | 5.1 |
| 2020 | 5 | #13,603 | 2.9 |
| 2019 | 13 | #6,692 | 7.2 |
| 2018 | 10 | #8,026 | 5.5 |
| 2017 | 13 | #6,589 | 7.0 |
| 2016 | 13 | #6,639 | 6.9 |
| 2015 | 7 | #10,377 | 3.7 |
Every recorded year (54)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 5 | #13,597 | 2.6 |
| 2013 | 10 | #7,963 | 5.3 |
| 2012 | 9 | #8,716 | 4.7 |
| 2011 | 17 | #5,376 | 9.0 |
| 2010 | 8 | #9,474 | 4.2 |
| 2009 | 19 | #5,059 | 9.6 |
| 2008 | 19 | #5,017 | 9.3 |
| 2007 | 24 | #4,221 | 11.6 |
| 2006 | 19 | #4,816 | 9.2 |
| 2005 | 13 | #6,138 | 6.5 |
| 2004 | 18 | #4,739 | 9.1 |
| 2003 | 24 | #3,697 | 12.1 |
| 2002 | 32 | #2,925 | 16.5 |
| 2001 | 21 | #3,945 | 10.8 |
| 2000 | 23 | #3,608 | 11.7 |
| 1999 | 19 | #3,946 | 9.9 |
| 1998 | 27 | #2,997 | 14.1 |
| 1997 | 27 | #2,881 | 14.3 |
| 1996 | 22 | #3,269 | 11.6 |
| 1995 | 33 | #2,383 | 17.3 |
| 1994 | 16 | #4,043 | 8.3 |
| 1993 | 29 | #2,559 | 14.8 |
| 1992 | 13 | #4,514 | 6.5 |
| 1991 | 21 | #3,083 | 10.4 |
| 1990 | 16 | #3,734 | 7.8 |
| 1989 | 11 | #4,741 | 5.5 |
| 1988 | 14 | #3,658 | 7.3 |
| 1987 | 20 | #2,696 | 10.7 |
| 1986 | 16 | #3,096 | 8.7 |
| 1985 | 10 | #4,270 | 5.4 |
| 1984 | 16 | #2,919 | 8.9 |
| 1983 | 14 | #3,197 | 7.8 |
| 1982 | 10 | #4,172 | 5.5 |
| 1981 | 6 | #6,079 | 3.3 |
| 1980 | 15 | #3,065 | 8.4 |
| 1979 | 13 | #3,315 | 7.6 |
| 1978 | 10 | #3,790 | 6.1 |
| 1977 | 11 | #3,549 | 6.7 |
| 1976 | 10 | #3,658 | 6.4 |
| 1975 | 15 | #2,725 | 9.6 |
| 1974 | 13 | #2,908 | 8.3 |
| 1973 | 9 | #3,626 | 5.8 |
| 1972 | 6 | #4,853 | 3.7 |
| 1971 | 8 | #3,878 | 4.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Rayshon a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Rayshon has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 54 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Rayshon: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rayshon, and how old are they?
An estimated 777 Americans named Rayshon and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 28 years old and half are between 19 and 38. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 593 people named Rayshon (42 women and girls, 551 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 748 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 6 names spelled alike, given to 5,755 babies since 1880, Rayshon is the fourth most given (14% 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 Rayshon
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 Rayshon and names like it
- Compare Rayshon and RashonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sRayshon peaked in 1995.
- Ohio’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Rayshon since 1910.
- The top names of 1995The year the most babies were named Rayshon.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Rayshon alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with RMost given first.