Rayan is a boy's name of Arabic origin meaning “luxuriant.” In 2024 it was given to 491 boys in the United States.
Rayan at a glance
Gender
Boy name
Origin
Muslim & Arabic
Meaning
“luxuriant”
Also spelled
Ryan
About the name Rayan
Rayan belongs to the Muslim & Arabic tradition. Its meaning — “luxuriant” — is the sense carried by its Arabic roots, and it is the meaning we verified against published sources for this page. It travels in a few spellings: Ryan.
In the United States, Rayan first appears in Social Security records in 1973. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #561 in 2016, and in 2024 491 babies received the name — 8,394 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.
Meaning and origin for this page were checked against this source. US popularity figures are from the Social Security Administration's public baby-names data. If you spot an error, write to [email protected] — accuracy is the whole point of this site, and corrections are made fast.