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Raymundo vs Rayquan

American parents have registered 9,493 Raymundos since 1880, against 1,240 Rayquans. Raymundo is still ahead, with 55 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Raymundo Rayquan

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 1998, when Raymundo had 185 and Rayquan had 87.

Side by side

  Raymundo Rayquan
Total US births 9,4931,240
Most in one year 23596
Babies in 2025 5511
Estimated living today 7,9001,200
Median age today 3124
Peak year 19941996
Best rank 674th boys1,188th boys
Rank in 2025 2,451st7,194th
First recorded 19121988
Girls / boys 0 / 9,4930 / 1,240

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 Rayquans are over 24. That is 7 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: Raymundo and Rayquan.