Raeleen
Raeleen was given to 8 girls in 2025, #11,690 among girls’ names; 559 Americans have been recorded with it since 1934 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Raeleen by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Raeleen?
#11,690 among girls’ names, 2025
Raeleen rose from #15,976 in 2015 to #11,690 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 3.4 to 5.0 per million.
14 babies in 1959, the peak
Raeleen peaked in 1959, when 14 girls were given it, #3,384 among girls’ names. The 8 births of 2025 are 57% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #11,690 | 5.0 |
| 2024 | 7 | #13,135 | 4.3 |
| 2023 | 9 | #10,970 | 5.6 |
| 2022 | 5 | #17,202 | 3.0 |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,947 | 4.9 |
| 2019 | 5 | #17,417 | 3.0 |
| 2016 | 11 | #9,940 | 6.2 |
| 2015 | 6 | #15,976 | 3.4 |
| 2012 | 12 | #9,579 | 6.8 |
| 2010 | 8 | #13,183 | 4.5 |
Every recorded year (68)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 8 | #13,397 | 4.4 |
| 2008 | 6 | #16,993 | 3.2 |
| 2007 | 8 | #13,625 | 4.2 |
| 2006 | 6 | #16,642 | 3.2 |
| 2005 | 7 | #14,150 | 3.8 |
| 2003 | 11 | #9,542 | 6.0 |
| 2002 | 11 | #9,332 | 6.1 |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,800 | 5.0 |
| 2000 | 13 | #7,926 | 7.2 |
| 1999 | 5 | #16,244 | 2.8 |
| 1998 | 14 | #6,994 | 7.9 |
| 1997 | 6 | #13,311 | 3.4 |
| 1996 | 8 | #10,287 | 4.6 |
| 1995 | 11 | #7,932 | 6.3 |
| 1994 | 9 | #9,402 | 5.0 |
| 1993 | 5 | #15,159 | 2.8 |
| 1992 | 10 | #8,557 | 5.4 |
| 1991 | 8 | #9,998 | 4.3 |
| 1990 | 9 | #9,026 | 4.7 |
| 1989 | 11 | #7,313 | 6.0 |
| 1986 | 10 | #6,979 | 5.8 |
| 1985 | 10 | #6,811 | 5.8 |
| 1984 | 9 | #7,244 | 5.3 |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,727 | 4.2 |
| 1982 | 7 | #8,933 | 4.1 |
| 1981 | 5 | #11,657 | 3.0 |
| 1980 | 6 | #10,002 | 3.6 |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,716 | 4.4 |
| 1978 | 7 | #8,301 | 4.6 |
| 1977 | 9 | #6,725 | 5.9 |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,911 | 4.1 |
| 1975 | 5 | #10,167 | 3.4 |
| 1973 | 10 | #5,471 | 6.9 |
| 1972 | 9 | #5,805 | 5.9 |
| 1971 | 9 | #5,874 | 5.4 |
| 1970 | 8 | #6,211 | 4.6 |
| 1969 | 7 | #6,422 | 4.1 |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,800 | 3.7 |
| 1967 | 10 | #4,539 | 6.1 |
| 1966 | 6 | #6,377 | 3.5 |
| 1965 | 8 | #5,179 | 4.5 |
| 1964 | 7 | #5,866 | 3.7 |
| 1963 | 9 | #4,813 | 4.7 |
| 1962 | 8 | #5,179 | 4.1 |
| 1961 | 14 | #3,562 | 6.9 |
| 1960 | 10 | #4,387 | 4.9 |
| 1959 | 14 | #3,384 | 6.9 |
| 1958 | 10 | #4,132 | 5.0 |
| 1957 | 10 | #4,130 | 4.9 |
| 1956 | 9 | #4,390 | 4.5 |
| 1955 | 8 | #4,648 | 4.1 |
| 1954 | 7 | #5,031 | 3.6 |
| 1953 | 8 | #4,510 | 4.3 |
| 1951 | 6 | #5,279 | 3.3 |
| 1946 | 8 | #3,916 | 5.1 |
| 1944 | 5 | #5,094 | 3.8 |
| 1943 | 5 | #5,210 | 3.6 |
| 1934 | 6 | #4,195 | 5.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Raeleen a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Raeleen has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 68 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Raeleen: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Raeleen, and how old are they?
An estimated 512 Americans named Raeleen and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (92% of everyone recorded); the median is 40 years old and half are between 24 and 59. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 483 people named Raeleen (481 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 489 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% below that prediction.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 53,462 babies since 1880, Raeleen is the fifth most given (1.0% of them). In 2025 it was given to 8 of their 2,985 babies (<1%), the sixth most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Raeleen
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Raeleen and names like it
- Compare Raeleen and RaelynnBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sRaeleen peaked in 1959.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Raeleen since 1910.
- The top names of 1959The year the most babies were named Raeleen.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Raeleen alive today were born 1997-2012.
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