Raylan is a variant of Rylan, possibly inspired by Ray, a diminutive of [Raymond]. Rylan derived from the English surname [Ryland], which means ‘rye land’ in Old English.
Raylan is a male first name. In very rare cases it is also used for girls.
The name Raylan 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, Raylan ranks 547. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 3 were named Raylan. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Raylan.
Raylan is a variant of Rylan, possibly inspired by Ray, a diminutive of [Raymond]. Rylan derived from the English surname [Ryland], which means ‘rye land’ in Old English.
Raylan is also the... title of the last novel by Elmore Leonard. It was published in 2012 and is based on the TV series 'Justified', which in turn is based on a short story by Leonard.
You may not know anyone named Raylan, but there’s a good chance you live in the same state as someone with that name. In fact, 38 states are home to men and boys named Raylan. (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 Raylan living in one state or another. If your name is Raylan 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 Kentucky, which has the most people named Raylan relative to the population, you still have to ask 7,377 men and boys their names before you hear Raylan 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 six letters, the name Raylan 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.
If your name is Raylan 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 Raylan, you can simply say:
Rocket
Apple
Yoyo
Lion
Apple
Nut
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Raylan
Raylan
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
R
A
Y
L
A
N
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
L
A
N
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. Raylan sounds like this:
