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 2021
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Arkansas#240 · 1 in 837
- Utah#287 · 1 in 1,128
- Idaho#369 · 1 in 1,285
- Nebraska#415 · 1 in 1,452
- Kentucky#415 · 1 in 1,702
Best ever in a state: #176 in Oklahoma, 2017.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arkansas | #240 | 13 | 1 in 837 |
| Utah | #287 | 15 | 1 in 1,128 |
| Idaho | #369 | 5 | 1 in 1,285 |
| Kentucky | #415 | 10 | 1 in 1,702 |
| Nebraska | #415 | 5 | 1 in 1,452 |
| Alabama | #443 | 11 | 1 in 1,734 |
| Mississippi | #466 | 6 | 1 in 1,635 |
| Oklahoma | #617 | 6 | 1 in 2,479 |
| Indiana | #631 | 10 | 1 in 2,838 |
| Louisiana | #738 | 6 | 1 in 3,101 |
| Wisconsin | #741 | 6 | 1 in 3,579 |
| Missouri | #744 | 7 | 1 in 3,533 |
| South Carolina | #786 | 5 | 1 in 3,544 |
| Washington | #866 | 7 | 1 in 4,217 |
| Tennessee | #891 | 7 | 1 in 4,460 |
| Texas | #1,140 | 23 | 1 in 6,760 |
| Georgia | #1,175 | 7 | 1 in 6,469 |
| North Carolina | #1,232 | 6 | 1 in 7,513 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,234 | 6 | 1 in 8,131 |
| Ohio | #1,285 | 6 | 1 in 8,101 |
| Illinois | #1,309 | 6 | 1 in 8,067 |
| Florida | #1,463 | 8 | 1 in 10,450 |
| New York | #2,090 | 5 | 1 in 16,250 |
| California | #3,189 | 5 | 1 in 34,906 |
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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 2021
Top girls' names in 2021
More about 2021
girls
1,640,861 girls got a published name in 2021; 1 in 7,012 of them was named Raylee, which outranked 93.9% of the 17,676 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).