Rayyan
Rayyan was given to 224 boys in 2025, #1,010 among boys’ names; 3,471 Americans have been recorded with it since 1996 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,440 Americans named Rayyan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 6 and 16.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rayyan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Rayyan?
#1,010 among boys’ names, 2025
Rayyan rose from #1,029 in 2015 to #1,010 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.10 to 0.13 per 1,000.
232 babies in 2025, the peak
Rayyan peaked in 2025, when 232 babies were given it (224 boys, #1,010 among boys’ names). In 2024 it went to 147 boys.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 224 | #1,010 | 0.13 |
| 2024 | 147 | #1,320 | 0.09 |
| 2023 | 147 | #1,307 | 0.09 |
| 2022 | 156 | #1,253 | 0.09 |
| 2021 | 129 | #1,422 | 0.07 |
| 2020 | 128 | #1,376 | 0.07 |
| 2019 | 146 | #1,280 | 0.08 |
| 2018 | 143 | #1,289 | 0.08 |
| 2017 | 190 | #1,054 | 0.10 |
| 2016 | 187 | #1,062 | 0.10 |
Every recorded year (29)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 198 | #1,029 | 0.10 |
| 2014 | 186 | #1,063 | 0.10 |
| 2013 | 144 | #1,237 | 0.08 |
| 2012 | 162 | #1,134 | 0.09 |
| 2011 | 124 | #1,361 | 0.07 |
| 2010 | 121 | #1,388 | 0.06 |
| 2009 | 114 | #1,466 | 0.06 |
| 2008 | 125 | #1,373 | 0.06 |
| 2007 | 103 | #1,533 | 0.05 |
| 2006 | 59 | #2,200 | 0.03 |
| 2005 | 57 | #2,155 | 0.03 |
| 2004 | 71 | #1,778 | 0.04 |
| 2003 | 56 | #2,047 | 0.03 |
| 2002 | 25 | #3,531 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 28 | #3,205 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 22 | #3,721 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 15 | #4,705 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 9 | #6,712 | under 0.01 |
| 1996 | 5 | #10,198 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Rayyan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 3,471 Americans recorded as Rayyan, 7% are girls and 93% boys. In 2025 it went to 8 girls and 224 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Rayyan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rayyan, and how old are they?
3,440 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 3,471 Americans ever recorded as Rayyan. The median Rayyan alive today is 11 years old; half are between 6 and 16.
The 2020 Census counted 2,398 people named Rayyan (203 women and girls, 2,195 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,488 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 5 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,150 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,280 |
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 Rayyan born?
The states with the most babies named Rayyan are New York, Texas and California, with 51% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 39 | #446 | 2.3× |
| Texas | 31 | #851 | 1.1× |
| California | 26 | #898 | 0.8× |
| New Jersey | 14 | #534 | 1.9× |
| Illinois | 13 | #699 | 2.2× |
| Michigan | 12 | #669 | 0.8× |
| Virginia | 9 | #779 | 1.7× |
| Florida | 9 | #1,331 | 0.5× |
| Ohio | 9 | #922 | 0.3× |
| Maryland | 7 | #678 | 1.0× |
Where Rayyan is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Rayyan is most over-represented in New York: since 1996 it was given 2.3 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 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 Rayyan 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 16,987 babies since 1880, Rayyan is the second most given (20% of them). In 2025 it was given to 232 of their 913 babies (25%), 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 Rayyan
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 Rayyan and names like it
- Compare Rayyan and RayanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sRayyan peaked in 2025.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Rayyan since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Rayyan.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Rayyan alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with RMost given first.