Rayven
Rayven was given to 59 girls in 2025, #2,886 among girls’ names; 3,188 Americans have been recorded with it since 1979 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,150 Americans named Rayven and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 22 years old and half are between 12 and 28.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rayven by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Rayven?
#2,886 among girls’ names, 2025
Rayven fell from #2,190 in 2015 to #2,886 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 48.7 to 36.7 per million.
139 babies in 1998, the peak
Rayven peaked in 1998, when 139 babies were given it (125 girls, #1,377 among girls’ names). The 59 births of 2025 are 42% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 59 | #2,886 | 36.7 |
| 2024 | 56 | #2,971 | 34.6 |
| 2023 | 47 | #3,416 | 29.3 |
| 2022 | 52 | #3,155 | 31.7 |
| 2021 | 60 | #2,842 | 36.6 |
| 2020 | 63 | #2,678 | 39.0 |
| 2019 | 62 | #2,747 | 36.9 |
| 2018 | 61 | #2,805 | 35.9 |
| 2017 | 80 | #2,314 | 46.3 |
| 2016 | 66 | #2,661 | 37.2 |
Every recorded year (45)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 87 | #2,190 | 48.7 |
| 2014 | 85 | #2,230 | 47.6 |
| 2013 | 91 | #2,101 | 51.9 |
| 2012 | 87 | #2,185 | 49.4 |
| 2011 | 73 | #2,504 | 41.5 |
| 2010 | 69 | #2,634 | 38.8 |
| 2009 | 71 | #2,611 | 38.6 |
| 2008 | 77 | #2,477 | 40.7 |
| 2007 | 73 | #2,562 | 38.0 |
| 2006 | 109 | #1,875 | 57.3 |
| 2005 | 114 | #1,736 | 61.7 |
| 2004 | 130 | #1,540 | 70.8 |
| 2003 | 124 | #1,559 | 67.9 |
| 2002 | 113 | #1,638 | 62.9 |
| 2001 | 119 | #1,571 | 66.1 |
| 2000 | 104 | #1,696 | 57.3 |
| 1999 | 105 | #1,607 | 59.2 |
| 1998 | 125 | #1,377 | 70.7 |
| 1997 | 111 | #1,485 | 63.8 |
| 1996 | 91 | #1,680 | 51.9 |
| 1995 | 72 | #1,931 | 40.9 |
| 1994 | 91 | #1,654 | 51.0 |
| 1993 | 75 | #1,891 | 41.5 |
| 1992 | 62 | #2,174 | 33.6 |
| 1991 | 46 | #2,640 | 24.5 |
| 1990 | 31 | #3,488 | 16.3 |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,558 | 4.9 |
| 1988 | 8 | #9,014 | 4.5 |
| 1987 | 8 | #8,542 | 4.6 |
| 1986 | 13 | #5,675 | 7.6 |
| 1985 | 6 | #10,298 | 3.5 |
| 1984 | 9 | #7,258 | 5.3 |
| 1983 | 9 | #7,124 | 5.4 |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,801 | 4.2 |
| 1979 | 8 | #7,847 | 5.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Rayven a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 3,188 Americans recorded as Rayven, 95% are girls and 5% boys. In 2025 it went to 59 girls; SSA lists no boys 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 Rayven: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rayven, and how old are they?
3,150 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 3,188 Americans ever recorded as Rayven. The median Rayven alive today is 22 years old; half are between 12 and 28.
The 2020 Census counted 2,284 people named Rayven (2,114 women and girls, 170 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,810 born in the U.S. The Census count is 19% 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 | 8 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 558 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,680 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 900 |
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 Rayven born?
The states with the most babies named Rayven are Michigan, New York and North Carolina, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michigan | 6 | #1,184 | 1.3× |
| New York | 5 | #2,352 | 0.3× |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,628 | 0.2× |
Where Rayven is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Rayven is most over-represented in Michigan: since 1979 it was given 1.3 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 girls’ 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 Rayven 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 57,921 babies since 1880, Rayven is the second most given (5.5% of them). In 2025 it was given to 59 of their 1,002 babies (5.9%), the third most given that year.
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 Rayven
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 Rayven and names like it
- Compare Rayven and RavenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sRayven peaked in 1998.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Rayven since 1910.
- The top names of 1998The year the most babies were named Rayven.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Rayven alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with RMost given first.