Raylee
#1,163 for girls in 2025, 199 births · Last seen for boys in 2020 at #10,605
Given to girls 98.2% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2017 · 312 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 5,037since 1988
Raylee over time
Rank among girls' names. Raylee has never cracked the top 800 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,163 | 199 | — | |
| 2024 | #1,250 | 186 | — | |
| 2023 | #1,217 | 195 | — | |
| 2022 | #1,120 | 219 | — | |
| 2021 | #1,072 | 234 | — | |
| 2020 | #1,089 | 224 | #10,605 | 6 |
| 2019 | #1,087 | 230 | — | |
| 2018 | #1,021 | 254 | — | |
| 2017 | #877 | 312 | #10,775 | 6 |
| 2016 | #1,026 | 258 | #10,744 | 6 |
| 2015 | #1,018 | 262 | #10,644 | 6 |
| 2014 | #1,030 | 252 | — | |
| 2013 | #1,037 | 240 | #12,136 | 5 |
| 2012 | #936 | 273 | #9,709 | 7 |
| 2011 | #1,096 | 224 | #10,808 | 6 |
| 2010 | #1,082 | 230 | — | |
| 2009 | #1,132 | 223 | #10,994 | 6 |
| 2008 | #1,521 | 153 | #12,553 | 5 |
| 2007 | #1,489 | 155 | #9,788 | 7 |
| 2006 | #1,702 | 123 | #7,998 | 9 |
| 2005 | #1,950 | 98 | #9,115 | 7 |
| 2004 | #2,229 | 79 | — | |
| 2003 | #2,187 | 79 | — | |
| 2002 | #2,352 | 68 | — | |
| 2001 | #2,844 | 51 | — | |
| 2000 | #2,854 | 50 | #9,112 | 6 |
| 1999 | #3,569 | 34 | — | |
| 1998 | #3,497 | 34 | — | |
| 1997 | #4,370 | 24 | #9,265 | 5 |
| 1996 | #6,723 | 13 | — | |
| 1995 | #4,217 | 24 | — | |
| 1994 | #8,122 | 10 | — | |
| 1993 | #13,442 | 5 | #6,816 | 7 |
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| 1991 | #11,509 | 6 | — | |
| 1990 | #7,303 | 11 | — | |
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| 1988 | #11,798 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Raylee! It came in at #11,798, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1988–1989, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Raylee is popular in 2012
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Kentucky#263 · 1 in 1,134
- Mississippi#274 · 1 in 1,064
- Oklahoma#284 · 1 in 1,099
- Oregon#445 · 1 in 1,856
- Alabama#518 · 1 in 2,308
Best ever in a state: #176 in Oklahoma, 2017.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kentucky | #263 | 16 | 1 in 1,134 |
| Mississippi | #274 | 10 | 1 in 1,064 |
| Oklahoma | #284 | 15 | 1 in 1,099 |
| Oregon | #445 | 8 | 1 in 1,856 |
| Alabama | #518 | 8 | 1 in 2,308 |
| Indiana | #555 | 11 | 1 in 2,730 |
| Tennessee | #563 | 11 | 1 in 2,715 |
| Texas | #576 | 54 | 1 in 2,932 |
| Louisiana | #617 | 7 | 1 in 2,814 |
| Utah | #633 | 6 | 1 in 2,984 |
| Ohio | #667 | 14 | 1 in 3,684 |
| Missouri | #720 | 7 | 1 in 3,846 |
| Pennsylvania | #783 | 11 | 1 in 4,796 |
| North Carolina | #819 | 10 | 1 in 4,395 |
| Georgia | #888 | 10 | 1 in 4,731 |
| Arizona | #1,108 | 5 | 1 in 6,195 |
| Florida | #1,542 | 7 | 1 in 11,375 |
| California | #2,784 | 7 | 1 in 29,869 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Raylee
- 87 spots since 2024 (#1,250 → #1,163)
- 74 spots since 2020 (#1,089 → #1,163)
- 145 spots since 2015 (#1,018 → #1,163)
- Biggest jump: 160 spots in 2012 (#1,096 → #936)
- Biggest drop: 144 spots in 2018 (#877 → #1,021)
- Debuted 1988
- Peaked 2017 at #877 (312 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 2 yrs · 2012–2017
- Highest: 1 in 5,534 girls born in 2017 were named Raylee (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 8,077 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 50.3% of all girls named Raylee (2,535) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 5 | #11,798 (1988) | #11,798 |
| 1990s | 161 | #3,497 (1998) | #6,972 |
| 2000s | 1,079 | #1,132 (2009) | #2,026 |
| 2010s | 2,535 | #877 (2017) | #1,021 |
| 2020s | 1,257 | #1,072 (2021) | #1,152 |
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.
Raylee in 2012
Top girls' names in 2012
Top boys' names in 2012
More about 2012
girls
1,761,053 girls got a published name in 2012; 1 in 6,451 of them was named Raylee, which outranked 95.2% of the 19,534 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
1,896,946 boys got a published name in 2012; 1 in 270,992 of them was named Raylee, which outranked 31.9% of the 14,250 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #8,864Zephen8
- #8,864Ziven8
- #8,864Zuhayr8
- #9,709Raylee7
- #9,709Aadon7
- #9,709Aaliyah7
- #9,709Aarjav7
- #10,770Aadhavan6
- #10,770Aadith6
- #10,770Aadiv6
Tied with 1,060 names at #9,709; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.