Rayhan

maleStatistical record

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

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

Rayhan: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #356 in 2007, and it stood at #535 in 2024.

2registrars recorded it
34times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#356highest recorded position
12groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 2008–2023

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2008	#5545
2019	#5591
2021	#4634
2023	#5687

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

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2024: #535 among boys in Scotland, #1758 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #1104 among boys in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Highest recorded1996–2024
Highest recorded position: #356 among boys in England and Wales, in 2007 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #1758 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Boys

Rayhan appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 1,157 births with the name.

Rayhan across 2 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.

Rayhan'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	#1104 (1996)	#356 (2007)	#1758 (2024)	29 of 29	1,157 (1996–2024)	103 (2007)
England and Wales · Girls	#5545 (2008)	#4634 (2021)	#5687 (2023)	4 of 16	13 (2008–2023)	4 (2021)

Rayhan 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 Rayhan in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	52	4 of 10	13
2000sbusiest	545	10 of 10	55
2010s	464	10 of 10	46
2020s	96	5 of 10	19

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 55 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2006 and 2007, when recorded births rose by 38, from 65 to 103.

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

Rayhan 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 2 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #356 in England and Wales in 2007.

Rayhan'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	male	#1758	14	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#5687	3	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#1363	19	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#1420	18	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#4634	4	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#1055	27	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#1379	18	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#5591	3	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#874	34	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#1061	26	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#906	34	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#1022	28	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#927	32	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#744	43	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#730	44	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#577	62	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#495	73	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#427	88	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#391	100	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#5545	3	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#422	88	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#356	103	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#476	65	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#615	43	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#586	42	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#615	36	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#611	32	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#751	23	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#1096	13	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#1082	13	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#958	15	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#1113	12	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#1104	12	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	male	#535	5	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
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 2 registrars between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #356, first reached in 2007.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 103 births, registered in England and Wales in 2007.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2024, and 28 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.

Rayen · #2052, 17y
Rayhaan · #711, 27y
Rayhana · #2023, 27y
Raymond · #17, 81y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 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.

Anneka · #356, 28y
Alanis · #358, 29y
Juanita · #354, 26y
Maira · #358, 29y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Akram · #355, 30y
Alia · #355, 30y
Archibald · #357, 29y
Ceri · #357, 21y

Rayhan was ranked #356 in England and Wales · Boys in 2007. 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.

Rayhan 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 Rayhan without appearing here.

Rayhan moved ahead of

Ashleigh Compare
In 2000 they stood at #1096 and #881 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2001 that had become #751 and #1595.
Ross Compare
In 2022 they stood at #1420 and #1366 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2023 that had become #1363 and #2160.
Graeme Compare
In 1997 they stood at #1113 and #874 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1998 that had become #958 and #1367.
Garry Compare
In 2000 they stood at #1096 and #1048 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2001 that had become #751 and #1135.

Moved ahead of Rayhan

Aksel Compare
In 2023 they stood at #1363 and #1461 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #1758 and #1132.
Leif Compare
In 2021 they stood at #1055 and #1782 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2022 that had become #1420 and #967.
Rune Compare
In 2023 they stood at #1363 and #1799 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #1758 and #1460.
Tadhg Compare
In 2017 they stood at #906 and #943 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2018 that had become #1061 and #786.

Moved the opposite way to Rayhan

Albie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Rayhan went from #1104 to #1758 while Albie went from #853 to #19.
Alfie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Rayhan went from #1104 to #1758 while Alfie went from #119 to #16.
Alfred Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Rayhan went from #1104 to #1758 while Alfred went from #218 to #81.
Archie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Rayhan went from #1104 to #1758 while Archie went from #192 to #10.

Moved the same way as Rayhan

Aaron Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Rayhan went from #1104 to #1758 and Aaron from #33 to #154.
Adam Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Rayhan went from #1104 to #1758 and Adam from #16 to #35.
Alan Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Rayhan went from #1104 to #1758 and Alan from #163 to #592.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Rayhan went from #1104 to #1758 and Alex from #43 to #171.

What's not yet available

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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 2 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #356 in England and Wales in 2007. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

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Rayhan across 2 official records

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