Rayburn
Rayburn is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 632nd, in 1938.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 193890 births
- Best rank
- #632in 1938
- Since 1908
- 2,612people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,612 boys have been named Rayburn in the United States since 1908, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1938, with 90 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 90 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1941, and the 1930s alone account for 21%. It has spent 14 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Rayburn | |
|---|---|---|
| 1900s | 7 | |
| 1910s | 220 | |
| 1920s | 421 | |
| 1930s | 560 | |
| 1940s | 533 | |
| 1950s | 295 | |
| 1960s | 230 | |
| 1970s | 167 | |
| 1980s | 102 | |
| 1990s | 33 | |
| 2000s | 22 | |
| 2010s | 17 | |
| 2020s | 5 |
In 1938, its biggest year
Rayburn was the 632nd most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1938 were Robert, James, John, William and Richard. See all of 1938.
Names that rose and fell with Rayburn
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Ferrellpeak 1935
- Verlonpeak 1939
- Lynwoodpeak 1935
- Marshellpeak 1930
- Carlispeak 1946
- Ozellpeak 1937
- Durwoodpeak 1943
- Mervynpeak 1937
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.