The Arabic name Rayan is a form of Rayyan, which means ‘watered, luxuriant’. In Islamic tradition, Rayyan is the name of one of the gates of paradise.
Rayan is a male first name. In some cases it's also given to girls.
The name Rayan isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Rayan ranks 569. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 3 were named Rayan. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Rayan.
Rayan is a fairly recent phenomenon. In the past, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Then, unexpectedly, Rayan cried out for attention, reaching its peak in popularity at #494 in our SmartGenius statistics in the year 2019. People over 50 probably didn't have classmates named Rayan, for there were many years in which not a single parent chose this first name for their son. Although it also has never been in the top 100 of most popular first names, Rayan seems to have been in vogue for a while, especially since the beginning of the new millennium.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Rayan was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
487 babies were named Rayan in 2022 - that's 1 in 363,572 newborn boys. With this number, the boys' name Rayan ranked 553 in our SmartGenius first name statistics in 2022, the most recent year for which records are available.
You may not know anyone named Rayan, but there’s a good chance you live in the same state as someone with that name. In fact, 30 states are home to men and boys named Rayan. (To be fair, a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s entirely possible that there are still a few men and boys named Rayan living in one state or another. If your name is Rayan and you live outside of the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can refine our statistics even further). And while the first name is present in many states, it is still not one of the popular ones. In Virginia, which has the most people named Rayan relative to the population, you still have to ask 8,507 men and boys their names before you hear Rayan as an answer just once.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter R is quite common as an initial letter for boys’ names. To be precise, 5.2% of all boys' names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of boys' names, by the way, are J, A and D.
With five letters, the name Rayan is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Therefore: As 5.2% of all boys' names start with R, this initial letter occurs much more often than all 26 letters on average. And maybe interesting to know: of all the names that begin with an R, Robert is the most common.
If your name is Rayan and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Rayan, you can simply say:
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Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
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Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
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In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Rayan sounds like this:
