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Rayane

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Plump, fleshy, through رَيَّان

Rayane has been given to 135 babies in the U.S. since 2004. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2006, with 18 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 95% boys, 5% girls all-time.

Babies named Rayane, 2021

1 in 377,000

Rayane over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
0510152018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Rayane over time

In 2021, Rayane went to 0% girls and 100% boys.

20042021

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Rayane: meaning, origin, and history

Plump, fleshy, through رَيَّان

Arabic

What Rayane means

Rayane belongs to the name family reached through Rayane → رَيَّان. Its meaning is “plump, fleshy”.

Origin, language, and formation

Rayane is used in English. Its origins include Arabic.

Rayane comes through Arabic رَيَّان.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Rayan and رَيَّان.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 128 boys were recorded with the name Rayane between 2004 and 2021. Its highest annual count was 18 in 2006; its best national rank was #5,019 in 2006.

In the United States, 7 girls were recorded with the name Rayane between 2004 and 2004. Its highest annual count was 7 in 2004; its best national rank was #13,856 in 2004.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Rayane?

Rayane had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2021, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2021
1 in 377,000
9 of 3,389,958 births
Among boys only
1 in 194,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2021
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
261,083 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Rayane sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2021 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 261,083 children born in 2021 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rayane. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Rayanes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Rayane was born before 2009 — so the typical Rayane is around 16 today.

Median birth year
2009
About 16 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
56.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
128
People you could plausibly meet
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2000s — 56.3% of all recorded uses (72).

Is Rayane rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2006 (18)
Years since peak
19
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,019
2006

Spellings of Rayane

Rayane is not the most common spelling — Ryan is, with 67.8% against Rayane's <0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Rayane is used

Across 1910–2025, Rayane was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,220,640 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Rayane has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Rayane around the world

Where Rayane ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2003–2021
    #4,789
    in 2021
  • France
    1989–2025
    #284
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1998–2024
    #2,550
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Rayane by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#5,019
2006
Peak year
2006
18 that year
First recorded
2004
Last recorded
2021
All-time count
128
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#13,856
2004
Peak year
2004
7 that year
First recorded
2004
Last recorded
2004
All-time count
7
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Rayane

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

RaydanRaydinRaymirRaylynRayderRaydelRaysonRaydonRaynerMclaneRaymarRaymieRayjonRaymereRaylinRaynorRaylynnRaymanRayvenRayleeRayanshRaybonRayleighRaymel

Sibling names for Rayane

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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