Raylynn
#1,272 for girls in 2025, 176 births · #10,695 for boys in 2025, 6 births
Given to girls 98.4% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2017 · 249 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 3,827since 1964
Raylynn over time
Rank among girls' names. Raylynn 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 | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,272 | 176 | #10,695 | 6 |
| 2024 | #1,193 | 199 | #12,349 | 5 |
| 2023 | #1,244 | 186 | — | |
| 2022 | #1,259 | 190 | — | |
| 2021 | #1,146 | 214 | #12,146 | 5 |
| 2020 | #1,133 | 210 | #9,554 | 7 |
| 2019 | #1,139 | 212 | #10,803 | 6 |
| 2018 | #1,155 | 210 | — | |
| 2017 | #1,036 | 249 | #8,840 | 8 |
| 2016 | #1,152 | 218 | #10,744 | 6 |
| 2015 | #1,247 | 196 | — | |
| 2014 | #1,387 | 166 | #12,108 | 5 |
| 2013 | #1,502 | 147 | — | |
| 2012 | #1,445 | 158 | #8,158 | 9 |
| 2011 | #1,927 | 103 | #12,287 | 5 |
| 2010 | #1,873 | 108 | — | |
| 2009 | #2,190 | 90 | — | |
| 2008 | #2,354 | 82 | — | |
| 2007 | #2,858 | 63 | — | |
| 2006 | #2,815 | 62 | — | |
| 2005 | #3,081 | 51 | — | |
| 2004 | #3,224 | 47 | — | |
| 2003 | #3,291 | 44 | — | |
| 2002 | #3,523 | 38 | — | |
| 2001 | #3,256 | 42 | — | |
| 2000 | #3,527 | 37 | — | |
| 1999 | #4,088 | 28 | — | |
| 1998 | #5,123 | 20 | — | |
| 1997 | #3,897 | 28 | — | |
| 1996 | #4,453 | 23 | — | |
| 1995 | #4,677 | 21 | — | |
| 1994 | #6,319 | 14 | — | |
| 1993 | #5,955 | 15 | — | |
| 1992 | #6,652 | 13 | — | |
| 1991 | #4,329 | 23 | — | |
| 1990 | #6,465 | 13 | — | |
| 1989 | #4,848 | 18 | — | |
| 1988 | #5,895 | 13 | — | |
| 1987 | #5,923 | 12 | — | |
| 1986 | #7,134 | 9 | — | |
| 1985 | #10,677 | 5 | — | |
| 1984 | #7,398 | 8 | — | |
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| 1982 | #7,469 | 8 | — | |
| 1981 | #6,804 | 9 | — | |
| 1980 | #9,095 | 6 | — | |
| 1979 | #10,210 | 5 | — | |
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| 1977 | #6,892 | 8 | — | |
| 1976 | #7,296 | 7 | — | |
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| 1974 | #6,900 | 7 | — | |
| 1973 | #7,435 | 6 | — | |
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| 1970 | #7,995 | 5 | — | |
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| 1964 | #6,767 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Raylynn! It came in at #6,767, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1964–1972, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Raylynn is popular in 2024
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- West Virginia#311 · 1 in 1,041
- Kentucky#437 · 1 in 1,749
- Oklahoma#476 · 1 in 1,836
- Kansas#583 · 1 in 2,299
- Alabama#723 · 1 in 3,118
Best ever in a state: #219 in Kentucky, 2022.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| West Virginia | #311 | 5 | 1 in 1,041 |
| Kentucky | #437 | 10 | 1 in 1,749 |
| Oklahoma | #476 | 8 | 1 in 1,836 |
| Kansas | #583 | 5 | 1 in 2,299 |
| Alabama | #723 | 6 | 1 in 3,118 |
| Tennessee | #724 | 10 | 1 in 3,202 |
| Michigan | #792 | 9 | 1 in 3,973 |
| Ohio | #814 | 11 | 1 in 4,254 |
| Indiana | #826 | 7 | 1 in 4,020 |
| Minnesota | #875 | 5 | 1 in 4,266 |
| North Carolina | #899 | 10 | 1 in 4,622 |
| Missouri | #918 | 5 | 1 in 4,758 |
| Florida | #940 | 16 | 1 in 5,394 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,107 | 7 | 1 in 6,619 |
| Illinois | #1,134 | 7 | 1 in 6,420 |
| Virginia | #1,221 | 5 | 1 in 6,809 |
| Texas | #1,425 | 17 | 1 in 9,610 |
| Georgia | #1,538 | 5 | 1 in 9,102 |
| New York | #1,828 | 6 | 1 in 13,101 |
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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 Raylynn
- 79 spots since 2024 (#1,193 → #1,272)
- 139 spots since 2020 (#1,133 → #1,272)
- 25 spots since 2015 (#1,247 → #1,272)
- Debuted 1964
- Peaked 2017 at #1,036 (249 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 6,934 girls born in 2017 were named Raylynn (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 9,132 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 46.2% of all girls named Raylynn (1,767) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 5 | #6,767 (1964) | #6,767 |
| 1970s | 38 | #6,892 (1977) | #7,788 |
| 1980s | 88 | #4,848 (1989) | #7,249 |
| 1990s | 198 | #3,897 (1997) | #5,196 |
| 2000s | 556 | #2,190 (2009) | #3,012 |
| 2010s | 1,767 | #1,036 (2017) | #1,386 |
| 2020s | 1,175 | #1,133 (2020) | #1,208 |
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.
Raylynn in 2024
Top girls' names in 2024
Top boys' names in 2024
More about 2024
girls
1,620,190 girls got a published name in 2024; 1 in 8,142 of them was named Raylynn, which outranked 93.3% of the 17,726 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
1,722,888 boys got a published name in 2024; 1 in 344,578 of them was named Raylynn, which outranked 13.6% of the 14,294 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 1,945 names at #12,349; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.