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Raylon vs Raymond

American parents have registered 783,311 Raymonds since 1880, against 1,305 Raylons. Raymond is still ahead, with 807 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Raylon against Raymond, 1880 to 2025 0 4k 8k 12k 16k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Raylon Raymond

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

Raymond has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2020, when Raylon had 74 and Raymond had 1,062.

Side by side

  Raylon Raymond
Total US births 1,305783,311
Most in one year 7912,930
Babies in 2025 40807
Estimated living today 1,300359,000
Median age today 1160
Peak year 20121924
Best rank 1,849th boys15th boys
Rank in 2025 3,036th394th
First recorded 19621880
Girls / boys 17 / 1,2883,517 / 779,794

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.

Which name is older

Half of the Raymonds alive today are over 60; half the Raylons are over 11. That is 49 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

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

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