Rayman
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Rayman has been given to 165 babies in the U.S. since 1915. 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 1927, with 11 recorded.
Babies named Rayman, 2019
1 in 694,000
Rayman over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Rayman?
Rayman had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2019, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2019
- 1 in 694,000
- 5 of 3,472,229 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 359,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2019
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 481,354 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Rayman sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2019 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 481,354 children born in 2019 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rayman. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Raymans were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Rayman was born before 1951 — so the typical Rayman is around 74 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1920s
- 17.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 20.0%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 85
- People you could plausibly meet
1920s — 17.0% of all recorded uses (28).
Is Rayman 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 1927 (11)
- Years since peak
- 98
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 16.7% average annual change
Spellings of Rayman
Rayman is not the most common spelling — Ryan is, with 45.3% against Rayman'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.
Rayman around the world
Where Rayman 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.
- France2024–2024#5,446in 2024
- Canada2003–2003#2,175in 2003
- South Australia1984–1984#455in 1984
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Rayman by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Rayman
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Rayman
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.