Rayan

What Rayan means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Rayan yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #178 vs #588 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Rayan?

US: Steady: #584 in 2015, #588 now. England & Wales: Steady: #184 in 2015, #178 now.

Biggest US share so far: 2023, when 518 boys got the name (#561 that year). First in the US records in 1973.

How common

• About 1 in 3,423 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 934 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 1,228 baby boys in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in DC (2.37 per 1,000 boys), VA (0.75 per 1,000 boys), IL (0.69 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Rayan is #588 in the US and #178 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 93.4% of US babies named Rayan were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Ryan3,532 US · 374 E&W
• Rayyan224 US · 261 E&W
• Riyan85 US · 38 E&W
• Reyan42 US · 29 E&W
• Raiyan25 US · 34 E&W
• Rayen0 US · 17 E&W
• Ryaan7 US · 7 E&W
• Royan11 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Rayan

Boys

• Yusuf#449Same root as Joseph, meaning “(God) shall add”^*
• Ibrahim#351Editor’s note Up from #436 in 2015 to #351 in 2025 in the US
• Yahya#615Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #81 vs #615 in 2025
• Ameer#980Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1969, with 14 babies
• Laith#893Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #254 vs #893 in 2025
• Zaid#675Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1969, with 5 babies

For a sister

• Lyla#80Editor’s note Up from #141 in 2015 to #80 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 520 US girls in the 2025 records
• Leyla#611Editor’s note Up from #782 in 2015 to #611 in 2025 in the US
• Zara#212“flower”^*
• Layla#36Editor’s note Down from #30 in 2015 to #36 in 2025 in the US
• Amirah#490Variant of Amira, meaning “princess”^*
• Lila#186“lilac”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under Arabic, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Rayan’s. Rank is US 2025.