Rayaan

Used for both boys and girlsStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Rayaan: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Rayaan: Recorded since 1998, its highest recorded position is #388, reached in 2024.

3registrars recorded it
52times a registrar ranked it
27years from first to last
#388highest recorded position
11groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 2001–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2001	#3998
2002	#4137
2003	#4373
2004	#2278
2005	#2247
2006	#1748
2007	#1502
2008	#1815
2009	#2148
2010	#1584
2011	#1729
2012	#2521
2013	#1956
2014	#1702
2015	#2195
2016	#2367
2017	#2925
2018	#3518
2019	#2458
2020	#5493
2021	#5581
2022	#3533
2023	#5687
2024	#3695

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in 25 of the 27 years from 1998 to 2024.

In 2024: #388 among boys in England and Wales, #619 among boys in Scotland, #785 among boys in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1998–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1998
First recorded at #2901 among boys in England and Wales in 1998 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Highest recorded1998–2024
Highest recorded position: #388 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024 (recorded 1998–2024).
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #3695 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Rayaan appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 25 years beginning in 1998, and has registered 1,333 births with the name.

Rayaan across 3 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Rayaan's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#2901 (1998)	#388 (2024)	#388 (2024)	25 of 27	1,333 (1998–2024)	107 (2024)
England and Wales · Girls	#3998 (2001)	#1502 (2007)	#3695 (2024)	24 of 24	224 (2001–2024)	18 (2010)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#713 (2016)	#713 (2016)	#785 (2024)	2 of 9	6 (2016–2024)	3 (2016)

Rayaan by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Rayaan in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	3	1 of 10	3
2000s	250	9 of 10	28
2010s	640	10 of 10	64
2020sbusiest	440	5 of 10	88

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 88 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2005 and 2006, when recorded births rose by 28, from 15 to 43.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Rayaan appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1998 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #388 in England and Wales in 2024.

Rayaan's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#3695	6	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#388	107	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#5687	3	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#472	85	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#3533	6	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#463	87	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#5581	3	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#520	75	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#5493	3	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#456	86	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#2458	10	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#568	66	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#3518	6	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#610	59	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#2925	8	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#563	69	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#2367	11	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#457	89	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#2195	12	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#601	61	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#1702	17	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#624	55	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#1956	14	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#621	55	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#2521	10	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#534	69	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#1729	16	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#546	64	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#1584	18	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#615	53	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#2148	11	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#570	58	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#1815	14	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#668	45	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#1502	17	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#622	47	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#1748	13	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#644	43	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#2247	9	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#1299	15	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#2278	8	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#1222	15	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#4373	3	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#1326	12	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#4137	3	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#1411	10	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#3998	3	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#2220	5	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#2901	3	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	male	#785	3	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	male	#713	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	male	#619	4	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1998 and 2024, ranked in 25 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #388, first reached in 2024.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 107 births, registered in England and Wales in 2024.

1 registrar publishes it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

Its record falls into 2 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 2 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2016, and 26 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Ray · #251, 40y
Raya · #70, 30y
Rayah · #328, 22y
Rayan · #145, 30y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Alessio · #390, 30y
Anabelle · #390, 29y
Braden · #390, 29y
Enid · #391, 21y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Arnie · #389, 28y
Asiya · #389, 29y
Kayleb · #387, 22y
Tyreece · #387, 25y

Rayaan was ranked #388 in England and Wales · Boys in 2024. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Rayaan and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Rayaan without appearing here.

Rayaan moved ahead of

Harald Compare
In 2005 they stood at #2901 and #2901 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2006 that had become #644 and #4052.
Willow Compare
In 2004 they stood at #2901 and #2901 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2005 that had become #1299 and #3849.
Maddison Compare
In 2003 they stood at #2901 and #2901 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2004 that had become #1222 and #3651.
Cheryl Compare
In 2023 they stood at #5687 and #5687 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #3695 and #5891.

Moved ahead of Rayaan

Rory Compare
In 2019 they stood at #2458 and #4001 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #5493 and #1939.
Francis Compare
In 2019 they stood at #2458 and #4686 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #5493 and #2449.
Noah Compare
In 2019 they stood at #2458 and #2869 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #5493 and #2615.
Arlo Compare
In 2019 they stood at #2458 and #3541 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #5493 and #2843.

Moved the opposite way to Rayaan

Aaron Compare
Between 1998 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Rayaan went from #2901 to #388 while Aaron went from #31 to #154.
Adam Compare
Between 1998 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Rayaan went from #2901 to #388 while Adam went from #21 to #35.
Alan Compare
Between 1998 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Rayaan went from #2901 to #388 while Alan went from #196 to #592.
Alex Compare
Between 1998 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Rayaan went from #2901 to #388 while Alex went from #46 to #171.

Moved the same way as Rayaan

Albie Compare
Between 1998 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Rayaan went from #2901 to #388 and Albie from #716 to #19.
Alfie Compare
Between 1998 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Rayaan went from #2901 to #388 and Alfie from #71 to #16.
Alfred Compare
Between 1998 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Rayaan went from #2901 to #388 and Alfred from #174 to #81.
Archie Compare
Between 1998 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Rayaan went from #2901 to #388 and Archie from #120 to #10.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1998 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #388 in England and Wales in 2024. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Rayaan

Rayaan at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Rayaan across 3 official records

Rayaan by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Rayaan appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Rayaan

Rayaan and the names beside it

Rayaan moved ahead of

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Rayaan at a glance

Rayaan across 3 official records

Rayaan by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Rayaan appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Rayaan

Rayaan and the names beside it

Rayaan moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Rayaan

Moved the opposite way to Rayaan

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