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Rayyan

#1,010 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

Watered, luxuriant

Rayyan has been given to 3,471 babies in the U.S. since 1996. In 2025 it ranked #1,010 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 224 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 93% boys, 7% girls all-time.

Babies named Rayyan, 2025

1 in 14,800

Rayyan over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
010020030018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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

In 2025, Rayyan went to 3% girls and 97% boys.

19962025

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.

Rayyan: meaning, origin, and history

Watered, luxuriant

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Rayyan means

Rayyan means “watered, luxuriant”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,221 boys were recorded with the name Rayyan between 1996 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 224 in 2025; its best national rank was #1,010 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,376 in 2020 to #1,010 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,029 in 2015 to #1,010 in 2025.

In the United States, 250 girls were recorded with the name Rayyan between 2000 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 25 in 2017; its best national rank was #5,301 in 2017.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #9,404 in 2020 to #11,703 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #6,198 in 2015 to #11,703 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.

How common is Rayyan?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 14,800
224 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 7,620
0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,010
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
10,260 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Rayyan 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 5003%

Put another way: gather 10,260 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rayyan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Rayyans were born

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

Median birth year
2015
About 10 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
49.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
98.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
3,221
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 49.7% of all recorded uses (1,601).

Is Rayyan 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
+310
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+366
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+19
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.13×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (224)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,010
2025

Spellings of Rayyan

Rayyan is not the most common spelling — Ryan is, with 85.0% against Rayyan's 0.28%.

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 Rayyan is used — boys

Across 2016–2025, Rayyan was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 3,448 boys, against 1 in 8,754 across all states with data. It was least common in Arizona (1 in 100,000).

129 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 3,448
  2. 2Illinois1 in 4,000
  3. 3New Jersey1 in 4,545
  4. 4Virginia1 in 5,263
  5. 5Maryland1 in 6,250
  6. 6Texas1 in 9,091
  7. 7Michigan1 in 10,000
  8. 8California1 in 11,111

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.

Where Rayyan is used — girls

Across 1910–2025, Rayyan was most concentrated in Michigan — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 903,996 across all states with data. It was least common in Minnesota (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Michigan1 in —
  2. 2Minnesota1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Rayyan has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Rayyan around the world

Where Rayyan 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
    1996–2025
    #195
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2004–2025
    #441
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2014–2014
    #398
    in 2014
  • Ireland
    2009–2025
    #468
    in 2025
  • France
    1996–2025
    #1,252
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2000–2024
    #399
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2009–2013
    #499
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Rayyan by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,010
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 366
Best rank ever
#1,010
2025
Peak year
2025
224 that year
First recorded
1996
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,221
Count in 2025
224

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#11,703
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 2,299
Best rank ever
#5,301
2017
Peak year
2017
25 that year
First recorded
2000
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
250
Count in 2025
8

Names similar to Rayyan

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

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Names with a curve like Rayyan

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

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Sibling names for Rayyan

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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