Raylee

Where Raylee comes from

Raylee hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1988
    First appearance
    #11,798 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1994
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  3. 1997
    Raylee Charlotte Kristiansen born
    Norwegian actor and singer
  4. 2017
    Peak, #877
    312 babies named Raylee — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Raylee Charlotte Kristiansen · Norwegian actor and singer, born 1997

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.