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Rayson

#8,096 in 2025Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Rayson has been given to 268 babies in the U.S. since 1984. In 2025 it ranked #8,096 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2017, with 19 recorded.

Babies named Rayson, 2025

1 in 332,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Rayson: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Rayson means

Rayson is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Rayson is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 268 boys were recorded with the name Rayson between 1984 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 19 in 2017; its best national rank was #5,067 in 2017.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,909 in 2020 to #8,096 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #7,415 in 2015 to #8,096 in 2025.

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 Rayson?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 332,000
10 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 171,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#8,096
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
229,791 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Rayson 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 2025 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 229,791 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rayson. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Raysons were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Rayson was born before 2015 — so the typical Rayson is around 10 today.

Median birth year
2015
About 10 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
43.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
89.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
268
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Choose a decade

2010s — 43.3% of all recorded uses (116).

Is Rayson 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
−461
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−2,187
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−681
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.91×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
52.6%
Peak was 2017 (19)
Years since peak
8
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
38.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,067
2017

Spellings of Rayson

Rayson is not the most common spelling — Jason is, with 31.6% against Rayson'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 Rayson is used

Across 1910–2025, Rayson was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,652,691 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 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. Rayson has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Rayson around the world

Where Rayson 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.

  • France
    2024–2024
    #5,751
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1981–2012
    #771
    in 2012

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Rayson by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#8,096
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 2,187
Best rank ever
#5,067
2017
Peak year
2017
19 that year
First recorded
1984
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
268
Count in 2025
10

Names similar to Rayson

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

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Sibling names for Rayson

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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