Rayan

Popularity, 1880–2025

girls named Rayan boys named Rayan

Girls and boys called Rayan

years more girls than boys years more boys than girls

Both, throughout, without either side ever taking it over: 1,058 girls and 8,895 boys in all, and in 2025 the split was 35 to 499.

The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 35 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.

By the numbers

Total US births

9,953

Estimated living today

9,900

Median age today

9

Peak year

2023

Best rank

561st

Rank in 2025

588th

First recorded

1973

Girls / boys

1,058 / 8,895

How old the living Rayans are

born that year still alive today

Of the 9,953 babies given the name since 1973, about 9,900 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 8,300 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2016 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where the name comes from

Origin Arabic

From Arabic رَيَّان.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Notable Rayans

• Rayan Cherki (born 2003)French footballer
• Rayan (born 2006)Brazilian footballer
• Rayan Aït-Nouri (born 2001)Algerian-French footballer
• Rayan Helal (born 1999)French cyclist
• Rayan Elloumi (born 2007)Tunisian-Canadian soccer player
• Rayan Raveloson (born 1997)Malagasy and French association football player
• Rayan Frikeche (born 1991)Moroccan and French association football player
• Rayan Rupert (born 2004)French basketball player

People named Rayan with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Rayan is most common

• NY1,221
• CA1,152
• TX780
• VA518
• FL501
• NJ492
• IL490
• MI333
• MA326
• OH300

Relative to how many babies each state records, Rayan is most concentrated in Virginia (2.9×), New Jersey (2.2×), New York (2.0×), Minnesota (1.9×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2023

The most popular boys’ names the year Rayan peaked:

• Liam
• Noah
• Oliver
• James
• Elijah
• Mateo

All the names of 2023

Rayan elsewhere

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Rayan: births by region

Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.

By canton, Rayan is most concentrated in Neuchâtel, where 0.30% of children were given it – 109 of them.

Rayan: rank by region

In 2025, Rayan was given 5 times or more in 3 regions of Belgium.

In 2024, Rayan was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Spain.

In 2023, Rayan was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.

In 2025, Rayan was given 2 times or more in 4 regions of Poland.

In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Rayan appears in the lists for Brussels-Capital Region (10th), Province of Antwerp (17th), Province of Liège (33rd), Province of Flemish Brabant (37th), Province of East Flanders (44th), Province of Limburg (64th), Province of West Flanders (67th) and Province of Hainaut (174th).

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Spain after 10 names, Italy after 10 names, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.

Rayan by city

One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.

Rayan among the living

How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.

A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.

Where Rayan lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 10,341 men called Rayan were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.

Men: the provinces where it is densest

Listed in 52 of Spain's 52 provinces. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.

Related names

• Raymond
• Ray
• Rayna
• Raymundo
• Rayne
• Raya
• Raymon
• Raylan
• Rayden
• Rayford
• Raylee
• Rayshawn

Rayan against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

• Rayan vs Raymond
• Rayan vs Ray
• Rayan vs Rayna
• Rayan vs Raymundo
• Rayan vs Rayne
• Rayan vs Raya

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