Raeleigh
#2,410 for girls in 2025, 74 births
- Peak · girls
- 2021 · 136 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 2,371since 1994
Raeleigh over time
Rank among girls' names. Raeleigh has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,410 | 74 |
| 2024 | #2,265 | 82 |
| 2023 | #1,750 | 117 |
| 2022 | #1,918 | 104 |
| 2021 | #1,544 | 136 |
| 2020 | #1,924 | 99 |
| 2019 | #1,816 | 112 |
| 2018 | #1,640 | 129 |
| 2017 | #1,580 | 138 |
| 2016 | #1,649 | 131 |
| 2015 | #1,655 | 129 |
| 2014 | #1,643 | 130 |
| 2013 | #1,866 | 108 |
| 2012 | #1,911 | 104 |
| 2011 | #1,886 | 106 |
| 2010 | #2,028 | 98 |
| 2009 | #2,119 | 95 |
| 2008 | #2,441 | 78 |
| 2007 | #2,616 | 70 |
| 2006 | #3,264 | 50 |
| 2005 | #3,509 | 42 |
| 2004 | #3,631 | 40 |
| 2003 | #3,291 | 44 |
| 2002 | #3,654 | 36 |
| 2001 | #4,209 | 29 |
| 2000 | #4,981 | 23 |
| 1999 | #6,484 | 15 |
| 1998 | #6,360 | 15 |
| 1997 | #5,868 | 16 |
| 1996 | #8,132 | 10 |
| 1995 | #11,783 | 6 |
| 1994 | #13,430 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Raeleigh! It came in at #13,430, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1994–1995, when fewer than 7 girls a year got the name.
Where Raeleigh is popular in 2024
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Kentucky#567 · 1 in 2,498
- Louisiana#800 · 1 in 3,412
- Missouri#918 · 1 in 4,758
- Tennessee#920 · 1 in 4,574
- Texas#1,966 · 1 in 14,851
Best ever in a state: #336 in West Virginia, 2016.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Kentucky | #567 | 7 | 1 in 2,498 |
| Louisiana | #800 | 5 | 1 in 3,412 |
| Missouri | #918 | 5 | 1 in 4,758 |
| Tennessee | #920 | 7 | 1 in 4,574 |
| Texas | #1,966 | 11 | 1 in 14,851 |
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See more about Raeleigh
- 145 spots since 2024 (#2,265 → #2,410)
- 486 spots since 2020 (#1,924 → #2,410)
- 755 spots since 2015 (#1,655 → #2,410)
- Debuted 1994
- Peaked 2021 at #1,544 (136 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 12,065 girls born in 2021 were named Raeleigh (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 21,720 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 50.0% of all girls named Raeleigh (1,185) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 67 | #5,868 (1997) | #8,676 |
| 2000s | 507 | #2,119 (2009) | #3,372 |
| 2010s | 1,185 | #1,580 (2017) | #1,767 |
| 2020s | 612 | #1,544 (2021) | #1,969 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Raeleigh in 2024
Top girls' names in 2024
More about 2024
girls
1,620,190 girls got a published name in 2024; 1 in 19,758 of them was named Raeleigh, which outranked 87.2% of the 17,726 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,248Ren83
- #2,248Tate83
- #2,248Weslie83
- #2,265Raeleigh82
- #2,265Aribella82
- #2,265Aris82
- #2,265Charly82
- #2,282Alaska81
- #2,282Amerie81
- #2,282Anabella81
Tied with 16 names at #2,265; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.