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Raymundo vs Rayon

American parents have registered 9,493 Raymundos since 1880, against 547 Rayons. Raymundo is still ahead, with 55 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Raymundo against Rayon, 1880 to 2025 0 60 120 180 240 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Raymundo Rayon

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

Raymundo has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1912 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2020, when Raymundo had 57 and Rayon had 16.

Side by side

  Raymundo Rayon
Total US births 9,493547
Most in one year 23525
Babies in 2025 556
Estimated living today 7,900540
Median age today 3117
Peak year 19942008
Best rank 674th boys4,044th boys
Rank in 2025 2,451st10,695th
First recorded 19121975
Girls / boys 0 / 9,49311 / 536

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 Raymundos alive today are over 31; half the Rayons are over 17. That is 14 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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