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How popular is the name Rayan?
Births per year, rank history and how many Rayans are alive today.
Rayan (male) sits just outside the top 100 boys' names in England and Wales, ranked 178th in 2025 with 291 babies given the name. This spelling of the name peaked in 2016, when 326 babies were given the name, the 175th most popular that year. Its fortunes dipped to rank 205 in 2021 before climbing back to the 178th place it holds today. Numbers have been stable in recent years. At least 5,000 babies have been named Rayan in England and Wales since 1996. Rayan is one spelling of a name also recorded as Raiyan, Rayaan, Rayen, Rayyaan, Rayyan and Reyan; the combined figures below cover every spelling.
Across all spellings of the name, the Rayan you are most likely to meet is around 10 years old. Half of all Rayans born in England and Wales are between 5 and 15, and there are at least 12,000 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 males, there's roughly a 3.9% chance that at least one of them will be called Rayan.
How many babies are named Rayan each year?
Includes all spellings: Rayan, Raiyan, Rayaan, Rayen, Rayyaan, Rayyan, Reyan. Figures before 1996 are estimates.
Where does the Rayan spelling rank?
Where does the Raiyan spelling rank?
Where does the Rayaan spelling rank?
Where does the Rayen spelling rank?
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Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Rayan most popular?
Rayan peaked in 2025, when 715 babies in England and Wales were given the name across all spellings.
How many people are called Rayan?
At least 12,000 people named Rayan in any spelling born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Rayan?
Most living Rayans are between 5 and 15; the most common age is about 10.
Is Rayan becoming more or less popular?
Recovering: it has climbed back after a dip in the rankings.