Raylene
#6,838 for girls in 2025, 16 births
- Peak · girls
- 1949 · 56 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 4,065since 1926
Raylene over time
Rank among girls' names. Raylene has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #6,838 | 16 |
| 2024 | #6,394 | 18 |
| 2023 | #4,276 | 33 |
| 2022 | #4,671 | 29 |
| 2021 | #4,719 | 28 |
| 2020 | #5,667 | 21 |
| 2019 | #6,414 | 18 |
| 2018 | #4,237 | 33 |
| 2017 | #3,769 | 40 |
| 2016 | #4,850 | 28 |
| 2015 | #4,295 | 33 |
| 2014 | #3,549 | 44 |
| 2013 | #4,076 | 36 |
| 2012 | #2,832 | 61 |
| 2011 | #4,151 | 35 |
| 2010 | #3,123 | 53 |
| 2009 | #2,966 | 58 |
| 2008 | #3,120 | 54 |
| 2007 | #3,721 | 43 |
| 2006 | #2,850 | 61 |
| 2005 | #3,126 | 50 |
| 2004 | #2,808 | 57 |
| 2003 | #2,577 | 62 |
| 2002 | #2,331 | 69 |
| 2001 | #2,379 | 66 |
| 2000 | #2,213 | 71 |
| 1999 | #2,640 | 53 |
| 1998 | #2,429 | 57 |
| 1997 | #2,481 | 52 |
| 1996 | #2,253 | 59 |
| 1995 | #2,394 | 54 |
| 1994 | #2,432 | 52 |
| 1993 | #2,380 | 53 |
| 1992 | #2,869 | 41 |
| 1991 | #2,886 | 40 |
| 1990 | #3,156 | 35 |
| 1989 | #2,304 | 51 |
| 1988 | #2,152 | 53 |
| 1987 | #2,780 | 35 |
| 1986 | #2,973 | 31 |
| 1985 | #2,137 | 49 |
| 1984 | #3,069 | 28 |
| 1983 | #2,595 | 34 |
| 1982 | #2,451 | 39 |
| 1981 | #2,375 | 41 |
| 1980 | #3,215 | 26 |
| 1979 | #2,582 | 35 |
| 1978 | #2,680 | 31 |
| 1977 | #2,557 | 33 |
| 1976 | #1,996 | 44 |
| 1975 | #2,232 | 37 |
| 1974 | #1,801 | 49 |
| 1973 | #2,455 | 30 |
| 1972 | #1,856 | 45 |
| 1971 | #2,212 | 36 |
| 1970 | #1,904 | 45 |
| 1969 | #1,711 | 50 |
| 1968 | #1,776 | 44 |
| 1967 | #1,783 | 42 |
| 1966 | #1,430 | 59 |
| 1965 | #1,302 | 69 |
| 1964 | #1,443 | 61 |
| 1963 | #1,417 | 62 |
| 1962 | #1,304 | 72 |
| 1961 | #1,243 | 79 |
| 1960 | #1,393 | 62 |
| 1959 | #1,315 | 66 |
| 1958 | #1,349 | 61 |
| 1957 | #1,358 | 61 |
| 1956 | #1,378 | 57 |
| 1955 | #1,356 | 55 |
| 1954 | #1,422 | 50 |
| 1953 | #1,344 | 52 |
| 1952 | #1,256 | 57 |
| 1951 | #1,339 | 48 |
| 1950 | #1,259 | 53 |
| 1949 | #1,210 | 56 |
| 1948 | #1,422 | 42 |
| 1947 | #1,290 | 50 |
| 1946 | #1,394 | 39 |
| 1945 | #1,543 | 28 |
| 1944 | #1,401 | 33 |
| 1943 | #1,556 | 29 |
| 1942 | #1,917 | 20 |
| 1941 | #1,222 | 38 |
| 1940 | #1,518 | 26 |
| 1939 | #1,881 | 18 |
| 1938 | #1,650 | 22 |
| 1937 | #1,914 | 17 |
| 1936 | #2,857 | 9 |
| 1935 | #2,006 | 16 |
| 1934 | #4,286 | 5 |
| 1933 | #2,275 | 13 |
| 1932 | #3,047 | 9 |
| 1931 | #3,497 | 7 |
| 1930 | #2,425 | 13 |
| 1929 | #3,394 | 8 |
| 1928 | #3,436 | 8 |
| 1927 | #3,561 | 8 |
| 1926 | #4,306 | 6 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Raylene! It came in at #4,306, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1934, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Raylene is popular in 1955
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- California#824 · 1 in 13,288
Best ever in a state: #268 in Maine, 1959.
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| California | #824 | 11 | 1 in 13,288 |
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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 Raylene
- 444 spots since 2024 (#6,394 → #6,838)
- 1,171 spots since 2020 (#5,667 → #6,838)
- 2,543 spots since 2015 (#4,295 → #6,838)
- Debuted 1926
- Peaked 1949 at #1,210 (56 births)
- Births halved by 1980, 31 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 25,551 girls born in 1961 were named Raylene (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 100,454 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,210 in 1949, was only 1 in 30,551 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 14.8% of all girls named Raylene (600) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 30 | #3,394 (1929) | #3,674 |
| 1930s | 129 | #1,650 (1938) | #2,584 |
| 1940s | 361 | #1,210 (1949) | #1,447 |
| 1950s | 560 | #1,256 (1952) | #1,338 |
| 1960s | 600 | #1,243 (1961) | #1,480 |
| 1970s | 385 | #1,801 (1974) | #2,228 |
| 1980s | 387 | #2,137 (1985) | #2,605 |
| 1990s | 496 | #2,253 (1996) | #2,592 |
| 2000s | 591 | #2,213 (2000) | #2,809 |
| 2010s | 381 | #2,832 (2012) | #4,130 |
| 2020s | 145 | #4,276 (2023) | #5,428 |
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.
Raylene in 1955
Top girls' names in 1955
More about 1955
girls
1,955,277 girls got a published name in 1955; 1 in 35,550 of them was named Raylene, which outranked 79.9% of the 6,732 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 22.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,347Laquita56
- #1,347Myla56
- #1,347Ricki56
- #1,356Raylene55
- #1,356Christene55
- #1,356Georgann55
- #1,356Mark55
- #1,361Adriana54
- #1,361Glynis54
- #1,361Joella54
Tied with 4 names at #1,356; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.