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Rayburn

Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Rayburn has been given to 2,612 babies in the U.S. since 1908. 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 1938, with 90 recorded.

Babies named Rayburn, 2023

1 in 663,000

Rayburn over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Rayburn: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Rayburn means

Rayburn is a given name.

The naming story behind Rayburn

Wikidata records Rayburn as a male given name. The entity identifier is Q98827195, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,612 boys were recorded with the name Rayburn between 1908 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 90 in 1938; its best national rank was #632 in 1938.

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.

How common is Rayburn?

Rayburn had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,314,783 births
Among boys only
1 in 342,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2023
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
459,528 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Rayburn 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 2023 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 459,528 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rayburn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Rayburns were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Rayburn was born before 1941 — so the typical Rayburn is around 84 today.

Median birth year
1941
About 84 years old
Biggest decade
1930s
21.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
1.9%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
871
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1930s — 21.4% of all recorded uses (560).

Is Rayburn 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 1938 (90)
Years since peak
87
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
33.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#632
1938

Spellings of Rayburn

Rayburn is the most-used spelling, taking 57.0% of the 4,580 babies given a near-identical spelling.

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 Rayburn is used

Across 1910–2025, Rayburn was most concentrated in Alabama — about 1 in 9,091 boys, against 1 in 38,424 across all states with data. It was least common in Missouri (1 in —).

011 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Alabama1 in 9,091
  2. 2Arkansas1 in 20,000
  3. 3Kentucky1 in 33,333
  4. 4Tennessee1 in 33,333
  5. 5Texas1 in 50,000
  6. 6Mississippi1 in 100,000
  7. 7Oklahoma1 in 100,000
  8. 8Georgia1 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. Rayburn has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Rayburn 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
#632
1938
Peak year
1938
90 that year
First recorded
1908
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
2,612
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Rayburn

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

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Names with a curve like Rayburn

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Rayburn, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Rayburn

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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