girls:
11 births since 1998
#5705 (0th percentile)
boys:
518 births since 1975
#4068 (11th percentile)
overall:
529 births since 1975
#7210 (7th percentile)
The name Rayon is the #7,210 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 529 recorded births since 1975. This represents the 6.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 6.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,068 (11.2% percentile) for all time with 518 births since 1975. For girls, it ranks #5,705 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 11 births since 1998.
Rayon first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1975 (1975 for boys and 1998 for girls). Birth data for Rayon is available in 46 out of the 49 years between 1975 and 2023 (46 years for boys and 2 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Rayon has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 97.9% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Rayon reached its peak popularity in 2009, achieving the 2.2% percentile (ranked #881) with 12 births per million. The name was most common in 2009, with 12 births per million (ranked 2.2% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2018, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Rayon ranks #904 for boys (0.8% percentile) with 7 births per million, which is 55.6% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Rayon reached its peak popularity in 1998, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #873) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1998, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2000.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Rayon".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Rayon. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 51.2% confident that Rayon is pronounced as RAY-uhn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is RAY-ahn, at 44.2% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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