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Rayhan vs Rayne

American parents have registered 9,380 Raynes since 1880, against 930 Rayhans. Rayne is still ahead, with 368 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Rayhan against Rayne, 1880 to 2025 0 125 250 375 500 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Rayhan Rayne

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Rayne has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1947 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2007, when Rayhan had 58 and Rayne had 320.

Side by side

  Rayhan Rayne
Total US births 9309,380
Most in one year 59435
Babies in 2025 31368
Estimated living today 9209,300
Median age today 1312
Peak year 20112019
Best rank 2,203rd boys733rd girls
Rank in 2025 5,208th904th
First recorded 19951947
Girls / boys 80 / 8508,034 / 1,346

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Rayhan Rayne
England and Wales 1,193582
France 1,0755
Scotland 2747

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Rayhan and Rayne.