Raylan

What Raylan means

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

Editor’s note 311 US babies in 2025, but under 3 in England & Wales Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Raylan?

US: Falling: down from #473 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2015, when 630 boys got the name (#473 that year). First in the US records in 1975.

How common

• About 1 in 5,492 baby boys in the US 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 AR (0.95 per 1,000 boys), KY (0.78 per 1,000 boys), OK (0.62 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

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

US vs UK

Raylan is #800 in the US. It is not in the England & Wales list for 2025.

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

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 94.0% of US babies named Raylan were boys.

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

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Rylan771 US · 9 E&W
• Rylen110 US
• Raylen97 US
• Raylon40 US
• Rylin37 US
• Rolan17 US
• Reylan14 US
• Rylon14 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 Raylan

Boys

• Reid#293Editor’s note Steady in the US: #278 in 2015 and #293 in 2025
• Knox#196“round hill”^*
• Levi#12Editor’s note Up from #42 in 2015 to #12 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 180 US boys in the 2025 records
• Emmett#121Diminutive of Emma, meaning “entire”^*
• Ryker#182Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #182 vs #1,066 in 2025
• Bentley#215Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #92 in 2015, #215 in 2025

For a sister

• Brielle#143Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1972, with 6 babies
• Scarlett#32Editor’s note Down from #22 in 2015 to #32 in 2025 in the US
• Paisley#67“pasture”^*
• Lena#279“the Large River”^*
• Quinn#97“descendant of Chief”^*
• Charlotte#2Form of Charles, meaning “free man”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Raylan’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.