Raelyn

#502 for girls in 2025, 592 births · #10,695 for boys in 2025, 6 births
Given to girls 99.4% of the time

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Peak · girls
2017 · 1,027 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
15,768
since 1949

Raelyn over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Raelyn has never cracked the top 300 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201949peak #316, 2017girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#502592#10,6956
2024#422736#7,76510
2023#397773#8,9218
2022#382821#7,26211
2021#380824#7,58710
2020#371837#8,7398
2019#342922#8,8898
2018#327993#8,8198
2017#3161,027#9,6967
2016#3171,029—
2015#342963—
2014#410784#10,7176
2013#414732#9,6557
2012#449696—
2011#584494—
2010#732382—
2009#924289—
2008#1,045250—
2007#1,115232—
2006#1,234195—
2005#1,227185—
2004#1,446142#8,9277
2003#1,358149—
2002#1,444132—
2001#1,627112—
2000#1,632108—
1999#1,654100—
1998#1,75190—
1997#1,595100—
1996#1,94773—
1995#2,05266—
1994#1,99970—
1993#2,21759—
1992#2,03367—
1991#2,32055—
1990#2,79941—
1989#2,98636—
1988#2,48943—
1987#2,91533—
1986#3,45925—
1985#3,41925—
1984#3,61322—
1983#2,97528—
1982#2,70434—
1981#3,34025—
1980#2,74933—
1979#4,05218—
1978#3,28323—
1977#5,53211—
1976#4,15415—
1975#3,25921—
1974#6,2588—
1973#3,34219—
1972#4,09114—
1971#3,06222—
1970#4,76111—
1969#3,19918—
1968#2,70822—
1967#2,96318—
1966#4,19810—
1965#4,20210—
1964#3,37915—
1963#4,27210—
1962#3,43814—
1961#5,8516—
1960#3,68812—
1959#3,61912—
1958#2,86217—
1957#4,9187—
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First appearance
1949

The first year at least five girls were named Raelyn! It came in at #5,244, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1951–1956, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.

Where Raelyn is popular in 1949

No state had 5 or more girls named Raelyn in 1949, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Raelyn
Momentum · girls
Falling
  • 80 spots since 2024 (#422 → #502)
  • 131 spots since 2020 (#371 → #502)
  • 160 spots since 2015 (#342 → #502)
  • Biggest jump: 192 spots in 2010 (#924 → #732)
  • Biggest drop: 80 spots in 2025 (#422 → #502)
Rise & fade · girls
68 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1949
  • Peaked 2017 at #316 (1,027 births)
  • Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 17 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 17 yrs · run 2009–2025
Share of babies · girls
1 in 1,681
  • Highest: 1 in 1,681 girls born in 2017 were named Raelyn (0.06%)
  • Latest: 1 in 2,715 girls born in 2025 (0.04%)
Era · girls
The 2010s
  • 50.9% of all girls named Raelyn (8,022) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1940s5#5,244 (1949)#5,244
1950s42#2,862 (1958)#4,034
1960s135#2,708 (1968)#3,790
1970s162#3,062 (1971)#4,179
1980s304#2,489 (1988)#3,065
1990s721#1,595 (1997)#2,037
2000s1,794#924 (2009)#1,305
2010s8,022#316 (2017)#423
2020s4,583#371 (2020)#409

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.

Raelyn in 1949

girls
#5,244
5 births · 1 in 342,175 girls

Top girls' names in 1949

  1. #1Linda91,015
  2. #2Mary66,874
  3. #3Patricia46,324
  4. #4Barbara42,600
  5. #5Susan37,709
  6. #6Sandra30,643
  7. #7Nancy29,249
  8. #8Carol26,780
  9. #9Kathleen26,357
  10. #10Sharon25,713
  11. #5,244Raelyn5
More about 1949

girls

1,710,877 girls got a published name in 1949; 1 in 342,175 of them was named Raelyn, which outranked 13.6% of the 6,066 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Raelyn
  1. #4,673Youlanda6
  2. #4,673Yvonia6
  3. #4,673Zenola6
  4. #5,244Raelyn5
  5. #5,244Abbe5
  6. #5,244Adine5
  7. #5,244Adora5

Tied with 822 names at #5,244; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1948
Risers
  1. ↑ 937Sharman#1,708 → #771
  2. ↑ 665Roseanna#1,422 → #757
  3. ↑ 483Shauna#1,173 → #690
  4. ↑ 293Jacalyn#1,116 → #823
  5. ↑ 267Sanjuana#1,185 → #918
Fallers
  1. ↓ 339Sandie#939 → #1,278
  2. ↓ 296Syble#955 → #1,251
  3. ↓ 272Shirleen#964 → #1,236
  4. ↓ 266Ginny#734 → #1,000
  5. ↓ 260Dina#861 → #1,121

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1949 →