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Rayvon

#5,556 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Rayvon has been given to 2,120 babies in the U.S. since 1919. In 2025 it ranked #5,556 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2001, with 68 recorded.

Babies named Rayvon, 2025

1 in 195,000

Rayvon over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Rayvon: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Rayvon means

Rayvon is a given name.

The naming story behind Rayvon

Wikidata records Rayvon as a given name. The entity identifier is Q104836754, 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, 2,059 boys were recorded with the name Rayvon between 1919 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 68 in 2001; its best national rank was #1,505 in 1994.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,893 in 2020 to #5,556 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,013 in 2015 to #5,556 in 2025.

In the United States, 61 girls were recorded with the name Rayvon between 1987 and 2004. Its highest annual count was 9 in 1994; its best national rank was #9,363 in 1995.

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 Rayvon?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 195,000
17 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 100,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#5,556
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
135,172 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Rayvon 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 135,172 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rayvon. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Rayvons were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Rayvon was born before 1999 — so the typical Rayvon is around 26 today.

Median birth year
1999
About 26 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
25.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
46.5%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,980
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 25.2% of all recorded uses (519).

Is Rayvon 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
+1,176
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,663
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,543
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.44×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
25.0%
Peak was 2001 (68)
Years since peak
24
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
15.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,505
1994

Spellings of Rayvon

Rayvon is not the most common spelling — Raymond is, with 55.6% against Rayvon's 0.15%.

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 Rayvon is used

Across 1910–2025, Rayvon was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 184,881 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2District of Columbia1 in 100,000
  3. 3Illinois1 in 100,000
  4. 4Michigan1 in 100,000
  5. 5North Carolina1 in 100,000
  6. 6New York1 in 100,000
  7. 7Ohio1 in 100,000
  8. 8Florida1 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. Rayvon has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Rayvon around the world

Where Rayvon 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
    2001–2001
    #3,134
    in 2001

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Notable people named Rayvon

People whose public names include Rayvon, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Rayvon by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#5,556
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,663
Best rank ever
#1,505
1994
Peak year
2001
68 that year
First recorded
1919
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,059
Count in 2025
17

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#9,363
1995
Peak year
1994
9 that year
First recorded
1987
Last recorded
2004
All-time count
61
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Rayvon

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

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Names with a curve like Rayvon

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

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Sibling names for Rayvon

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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