Rayan
given name · French · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Rayan is a given name, with more bearers in France than in any other country. In Mayotte it is the 13th most common given name. It appears chiefly in French and Portuguese, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Modern name; often taken as Arabic rayyan 'watered, luxuriant' or a variant of Ryan.
- FRFrance1 in 1.5K◐
- ESSpain1 in 4.8K
- MAMorocco1 in 7K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈71K ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 256 ●
- 1 in 1.5K ◐
across 11 countries
recorded for this name
102K records
Official registry-verified
France
Spellings & scripts●
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
Modern name; often taken as Arabic rayyan 'watered, luxuriant' or a variant of Ryan.
Sources 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | #351 | 44,370 | 68K rec. | 1 in 1.5K | 44K | Rayan | 256 |
| ES Spain | #862 | 10,341△ | 2.2K rec. | 1 in 4.8K | 10K | Rayan | 29 |
| BR Brazil | — | 6,005△ | 1.9K rec. | 1 in 35K | 6K | Rayan | 91 |
| US United States | — | 5,877 | 7.5K rec. | 1 in 57K | 5.9K | Rayan | 187 |
| PH Philippines | — | 5,606 | 3.5K rec. | — | — | Rayan | 25 |
| CA Canada | — | 5,189 | 566 rec. | — | 26 | Rayan | 60 |
| SE Sweden | — | 2,402△ | 89 rec. | 1 in 4.2K | 2.4K | — | 15 |
| MA Morocco | #683 | 2,205 | 2.5K rec. | — | — | Rayan | 33 |
| AU Australia | — | 2,006 | 2K rec. | — | 2 | Rayan | 100 |
| DE Germany | — | 1,802 | 1.3K rec. | — | — | Rayan | 90 |
| BE Belgium | — | 1,681 | 1.9K rec. | — | 17 | Rayan | 37 |
| AT Austria | #883 | 1,642 | 80 rec. | — | 462 | Rayan | 22 |
Roughly 44K people in France bear this name (about 1 in 1.5K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- French259K55%
- Portuguese61K13%
- Spanish30K6%
- Arabic29K6%
- English25K5%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| French | 258,865 | 55% |
| Portuguese | 60,813 | 13% |
| Spanish | 30,388 | 6% |
| Arabic | 29,065 | 6% |
| English | 24,521 | 5% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Rayan is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Spanish, inflection of raer:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, Rayan är ett namn av både arabisk och persisk härkomst. På arabiska betyder det ’riklig, överflödande; vacker’ och på persiska ’vis, tänkare’. Namnet Rayan bärs av både män och kvinnor.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In pmo, way, path
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Over time●
Show as table
| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1909 | 1 |
| 1922 | 1 |
| 1923 | 1 |
| 1935 | 1 |
| 1936 | 1 |
| 1937 | 2 |
| 1938 | 2 |
| 1939 | 1 |
| 1940 | 1 |
| 1942 | 5 |
| 1945 | 2 |
| 1946 | 1 |
| 1947 | 7 |
| 1948 | 7 |
| 1949 | 5 |
| 1950 | 3 |
| 1951 | 3 |
| 1952 | 7 |
| 1953 | 6 |
| 1954 | 2 |
| 1955 | 6 |
| 1956 | 1 |
| 1957 | 6 |
| 1958 | 2 |
| 1959 | 9 |
| 1960 | 6 |
| 1961 | 3 |
| 1962 | 13 |
| 1963 | 3 |
| 1964 | 2 |
| 1965 | 4 |
| 1966 | 6 |
| 1967 | 12 |
| 1968 | 3 |
| 1969 | 3 |
| 1970 | 4 |
| 1971 | 7 |
| 1972 | 6 |
| 1973 | 6 |
| 1974 | 8 |
| 1975 | 4 |
| 1976 | 5 |
| 1977 | 8 |
| 1978 | 6 |
| 1979 | 2 |
| 1980 | 9 |
| 1981 | 5 |
| 1982 | 6 |
| 1983 | 10 |
| 1984 | 6 |
| 1985 | 9 |
| 1986 | 13 |
| 1987 | 7 |
| 1988 | 7 |
| 1989 | 14 |
| 1990 | 6 |
| 1991 | 10 |
| 1992 | 15 |
| 1993 | 19 |
| 1994 | 14 |
| 1995 | 10 |
| 1996 | 9 |
| 1997 | 3 |
| 1998 | 5 |
| 2008 | 1 |
| 2014 | 5 |
| 2015 | 2 |
IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 67 years between 1909–2015. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Abd al-Rahman IIIb. 891ESnot in their usual namefinal Emir of Córdoba (r. 912–929); founder and 1st Caliph of Córdoba (r. 929–961)
- Rayan Yaslamb. 1994AEassociation football player
- Rayan Ravelosonb. 1997MGMalagasy and French association football player
- Rayan Rebbadjb. 1999FRFrench rugby union player
- Rayan Helalb. 1999FRFrench cyclist
- Rayan Philippeb. 2000FRFrench footballer
- Rayan Aït-Nourib. 2001FRAlgerian-French footballer (born 2001)
- Nayel Mehssatoub. 2002BEnot in their usual nameBelgian association football player
- Rayan Cherkib. 2003FRFrench footballer (born 2003)
- Rayanb. 2006BRBrazilian footballer (born 2006)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 102 sources across 56 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 44K | #57 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 10K | #521 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 8.7K | #281 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 6K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 5.9K | #2,413 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 5.9K | #3,160 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 2.9K | #4,757 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 2.7K | #1,151 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 2.4K | #949 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 1.8K | #1,144 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 1.1K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1K | #3,160 |
Reference works 3
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 973 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Rayan?
- We estimate roughly 71 thousand people bear Rayan (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
- In which country does Rayan have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 44 thousand people bear Rayan in France, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled rayan.
- How common is Rayan compared with other names?
- In France, Rayan is the 351st most common given name of 711,207 given names recorded there.
- Is Rayan a male or female name?
- Rayan is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Rayan mean?
- Recorded meaning: Modern name; often taken as Arabic rayyan 'watered, luxuriant' or a variant of Ryan.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Rayan” — the 351st most common given name in France. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.