Rayshawn
Rayshawn is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 23 births. Its best rank was 958th, in 1991.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 230.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 2006132 births
- Best rank
- #958in 1991
- Since 1969
- 4,145people given the name
The story in the numbers
3,967 boys have been named Rayshawn in the United States since 1969, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2006, with 132 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1999, and the 1990s alone account for 30%. It has spent 4 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 178 girls have also been given it, 4.3% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
In 2006, its biggest year
Rayshawn was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 2006 were Jacob, Michael, Joshua, Ethan and Matthew. See all of 2006.
Names that rose and fell with Rayshawn
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Dontaepeak 1996
- Curranpeak 1993
- Zachariapeak 2002
- Markesepeak 1995
- Deshawnpeak 1997
- Rashaudpeak 1993
- Rashaadpeak 1995
- Jonnathanpeak 1999
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.