Rayvon
Masculine
Rayvon is overwhelmingly a boys’ name — 2,059 boys against 61 girls since 1880.
Rayvon joins Ray to the -von ending, and both halves were in circulation when it was made. The -von family — Davon, Javon, Levon, Trevon, Rayvon — is one of the tighter rhyme sets in American naming, and its whole life runs from about 1980 to about 2005.
How old is the name Rayvon?
Rayvon first appears in US birth records in 1919 — 106 years ago. The typical Rayvon alive today was born around 1999, making them about 26 years old. About 1,900 people named Rayvon are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Rayvon most popular?
Rayvon peaked in 1994, reaching #1495 nationally. Today it ranks #5399, 3,904 places below that high. See the whole 1994 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Raymond to Rayvon
Our story of Rayvon
Rhyme sets have a shape in the data that is easy to recognize once you have seen a few: they appear suddenly, spread across every available prefix within about five years, hold for fifteen, and then vanish almost completely. The -von set is a clean example. Devon existed first as an English place name, and once that sound was established the ending detached: Davon, Javon, Trevon, Rayvon, Lavon, Kevon. All of them enter the American records within a decade of each other, all of them peak in the 1990s, and by 2010 essentially none of them is in the top thousand. Rayvon's peak in 1994 sits right at the center of that arc, and its front half — Ray — is the only part of it with a documented past.
Meaningnot established
Not established
No source establishes an etymology. Ray is a short form of Raymond, from Germanic ragin, counsel, and mund, protection — settled for Raymond. The -von ending has no traceable source: it appears in American records in the 1970s and spreads across De-, Ja-, Tre-, Ray- and Le- without any of the pieces descending from an older word. Armenian Levon, from Leon, is a genuine separate name that is not the source of the American family.
How the name formed
- Raymond
- Ray
- Rayvon
Pronouncing Rayvon
RAY-vahn
Two syllables, stress on the first. Some families say ray-VON with the weight at the back and a fuller second vowel.
Nicknames for Rayvon
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1919
- Most boys named
- 200168 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1495reached in 1994
- Change vs 2023
- −37.0%17 in 2025, from 27
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Rayvon in other languages
Strongest US states over the last decade: Michigan, New York.
Rayvons among us
people named Rayvon are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 100,475 born in 2025 was named Rayvon
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Delwyn test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Rayvon's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Delwyn climbed just as high around 1935, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Delwyn's path sketches the road Rayvon is walking now.
Rayvon sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Rayvon beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Rayvon in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Ray and Von are both ready-made short forms with independent histories.
- It is easy to say and spells itself from the sound.
- It reads immediately as a name.
- There is no established meaning for the name as a whole.
- Rayvon, Raevon, Rayvaughn and Ravon are all in the records.
- It is closely dated to the 1980s and 1990s.
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Frequently asked
- How many Rayvons are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,900 people named Rayvon are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Rayvon in 2025?
- Rayvon ranks #5399 among US boy names in 2025, with 17 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Rayvon?
- About 1 in every 100,475 US boys born in 2025 was named Rayvon — 17 in all.
- Will my child share the name Rayvon with classmates?
- Rayvon will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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