Rayleigh
- #1,443 for girls in 2025, 149 births
- #5,608 for boys in 2025, 16 births
- Given to girls 96.8% of the time
Showing
- Peak · girls
- 2018 · 189 births
- Debut · girls
- 7 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 3,000since 1995
Rayleigh over time
girls
Rank among girls' names. Rayleigh has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Hover or use arrow keys to read values by year; click or press Enter to open that year.
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 | #1,443 | 149 | #5,608 | 16 |
| 2024 | #1,441 | 153 | #5,659 | 16 |
| 2023 | #1,356 | 166 | #6,517 | 13 |
| 2022 | #1,288 | 184 | #5,445 | 17 |
| 2021 | #1,600 | 131 | #7,587 | 10 |
| 2020 | #1,264 | 177 | #10,605 | 6 |
| 2019 | #1,247 | 187 | #7,643 | 10 |
| 2018 | #1,233 | 189 | #12,156 | 5 |
| 2017 | #1,263 | 187 | — | |
| 2016 | #1,456 | 158 | #12,185 | 5 |
| 2015 | #1,470 | 156 | — | |
| 2014 | #1,345 | 174 | — | |
| 2013 | #1,646 | 129 | — | |
| 2012 | #1,663 | 128 | — | |
| 2011 | #1,612 | 134 | — | |
| 2010 | #1,688 | 125 | — | |
| 2009 | #2,375 | 81 | — | |
| 2008 | #2,318 | 84 | — | |
| 2007 | #2,890 | 62 | — | |
| 2006 | #3,054 | 55 | — | |
| 2005 | #4,195 | 33 | — | |
| 2004 | #3,748 | 38 | — | |
| 2003 | #4,307 | 30 | — | |
| 2002 | #6,392 | 17 | — | |
| 2001 | #6,619 | 16 | — | |
| 2000 | #7,158 | 14 | — | |
| 1999 | #7,716 | 12 | — | |
| 1998 | #8,584 | 10 | — | |
| 1997 | #9,802 | 8 | — | |
| 1996 | #11,807 | 6 | — | |
| 1995 | #10,514 | 7 | — | |
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First appearance
1995
The first year at least five girls were named Rayleigh! It came in at #10,514, and was given to 7 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1995–1997, when fewer than 9 girls a year got the name.
Where Rayleigh is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
Top states · girls
- Kentucky#331 · 1 in 1,327
- Arkansas#376 · 1 in 1,324
- Alabama#520 · 1 in 2,035
- South Carolina#688 · 1 in 3,048
- Tennessee#707 · 1 in 3,207
Best ever in a state: #242 in Mississippi, 2019.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kentucky | #331 | 13 | 1 in 1,327 |
| Arkansas | #376 | 8 | 1 in 1,324 |
| Alabama | #520 | 9 | 1 in 2,035 |
| South Carolina | #688 | 6 | 1 in 3,048 |
| Tennessee | #707 | 10 | 1 in 3,207 |
| Georgia | #854 | 11 | 1 in 4,110 |
| Indiana | #1,032 | 5 | 1 in 5,582 |
| Ohio | #1,271 | 6 | 1 in 7,878 |
| Texas | #1,615 | 14 | 1 in 11,467 |
| Florida | #1,685 | 7 | 1 in 12,395 |
| California | #2,767 | 6 | 1 in 26,954 |
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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.
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Momentum · girls
Holding steady
- 179 spots since 2020 (#1,264 → #1,443)
- 27 spots since 2015 (#1,470 → #1,443)
Rise & fade · girls
23 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1995
- Peaked 2018 at #1,233 (189 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 8,914
- Highest: 1 in 8,914 girls born in 2022 were named Rayleigh (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 10,787 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #1,233 in 2018, was only 1 in 9,000 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 2010s
- 52.2% of all girls named Rayleigh (1,567) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 43 | #7,716 (1999) | #9,685 |
| 2000s | 430 | #2,318 (2008) | #4,306 |
| 2010s | 1,567 | #1,233 (2018) | #1,462 |
| 2020s | 960 | #1,264 (2020) | #1,399 |
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.
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