Raylan
Raylan is ranked 717th among boys in 2024 (368 births). Its best rank was 473rd, in 2015.
- Rank in 2024
- #717down 50 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 3680.02% of boys
- Peak year
- 2015630 births
- Best rank
- #473in 2015
- Since 1975
- 7,106people given the name
The story in the numbers
6,540 boys have been named Raylan in the United States since 1975, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2015, with 630 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years (rank 500 → 717).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2016, and the 2010s alone account for 67%. It has spent 14 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 566 girls have also been given it, 8.0% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
In 2015, its biggest year
Raylan was the 473rd most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2015 were Noah, Liam, Mason, Jacob and William. See all of 2015.
Names that rose and fell with Raylan
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Eastynpeak 2021
- Vihaanpeak 2014
- Zaydenpeak 2014
- Raylenpeak 2020
- Rishaanpeak 2015
- Zaidynpeak 2023
- Eastonpeak 2016
- Jaxpeak 2015
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.