Rayman
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Rayman is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: dweller by the low-lying land or the stream; first attested Robert Ryman 1327 SRSx.
- USUnited States1 in 270K(measured from records)
- BZBelize≈1 in 34K
- DZAlgeria≈1 in 89K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 244 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 34K (inferred from the name graph)
1,232 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Belize, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
dweller by the low-lying land or the stream; first attested Robert Ryman 1327 SRSx
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Where in the world(measured from records)
Rayman counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 1,232 | 1 in 270K | 1.4K | Rayman | 244 |
| DZ Algeria | — | ≈480 est. | ≈1 in 89K | — | Rayman | 1 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈420 est. | ≈1 in 636K | — | Rayman | 22 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈310 est. | ≈1 in 211K | 115 | Rayman | 66 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 373K | — | Rayman | 25 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 207K | — | Rayman | 56 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 205K | — | Rayman | 14 |
| IL Israel | — | ≈48 est. | ≈1 in 182K | — | Rayman | 6 |
| BZ Belize | #744 | ≈12 est. | ≈1 in 34K | — | Rayman | 1 |
1,232 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Bohuslav Raýmanb. 1852CZCzech chemist (1852–1910)
- Sanna Raymanb. 1976SESwedish journalist
- Fallon Raymanb. 1995GBwife of Prince George of Yugoslavia
- Will Raymanb. 1997USAmerican basketball player (born 1997)
- Joseph RaymanUSresearcher
- Allan RaymanCAmusical artist
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(measured from records)
Attested in 27 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.4K | #19,783 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.2K | #19,931 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.2K | #21,272 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 115 | #30,347 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Rayman mean, and where does it come from?
- dweller by the low-lying land or the stream; first attested Robert Ryman 1327 SRSx Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- In which country does Rayman have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.2 thousand people named Rayman, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rayman.
- How common is the name Rayman?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,232 people named Rayman in 2010, about 1 in 270 thousand residents.
- How common is Rayman compared with other names?
- In Belize, Rayman is the 744th most common surname of 11,408 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/raymanThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), and bulk access is licensed separately.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Rayman” — the 744th most common surname in Belize. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.