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The first name 
Rayden

Rayden is a male first name. In very rare cases it is also used for girls.

Rayden is a common name for boys!

The name Rayden 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, Rayden ranks 666. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 2 were named Rayden. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Rayden.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Rayden

What does the name 
Rayden mean?

The name Rayden is possibly an invented name, following the trend of Jayden and Kayden, for example.

Some see Rayden as... a variant of Raiden, which is of Japanese origin and means ‘God of thunder and lightning’.

Rayden has 6 letters 
and begins with an R

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 six letters, the name Rayden is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. 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.

Other names with 
R, a, y, d, e and n

If you take all the letters in the name Rayden – R, a, y, d, e and n – and put them together again, you can form other names, such as Randye or others.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Rayden

If your name is Rayden 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...

This is how you spell the name Rayden

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Rayden, you can simply say:

Rocket

Apple

Yoyo

Dinosaur

Elephant

Nut

This is how the name Rayden is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Rayden in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Rayden

Rayden

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Rayden

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Rayden is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

R
A
Y
D
E
N

Have you ever waved the name Rayden

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.

R
A
Y
D
E
N

Beeping like crazy...

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. Rayden sounds like this: