Rayfield
Rayfield is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 752nd, in 1904.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 194943 births
- Best rank
- #752in 1904
- Since 1896
- 1,873people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,873 boys have been named Rayfield in the United States since 1896, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1949, with 43 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 43 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1945, and the 1950s alone account for 18%. It has spent 2 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Rayfield | |
|---|---|---|
| 1890s | 16 | |
| 1900s | 62 | |
| 1910s | 205 | |
| 1920s | 274 | |
| 1930s | 247 | |
| 1940s | 280 | |
| 1950s | 333 | |
| 1960s | 194 | |
| 1970s | 128 | |
| 1980s | 96 | |
| 1990s | 28 | |
| 2000s | 10 |
In 1949, its biggest year
Rayfield was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 1949 were James, Robert, John, William and Michael. See all of 1949.
Names that rose and fell with Rayfield
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Collispeak 1952
- Earliepeak 1922
- Cephuspeak 1922
- Curleypeak 1944
- Feltonpeak 1948
- Johnniepeak 1928
- Lenordpeak 1927
- Ezellpeak 1951
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.