Girls' name · since 2000
Raelen
Raelen has 72 recorded births since 2000 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 2025 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #30,837 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #10,522 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 72
- born since 2000
- 2010s
- peak decade
Raelen currently ranks #10522 among girls' names in America, with 72 babies recorded since 2000.
Raelen has 72 recorded births among girls since 2000, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, ranked #10522 as of the latest data, more common than 39% of girls, busiest in the 2010s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2000 to 2025.
- #30,837 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #10,522 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 72 born since 2000
- 2010s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Raelen ranks #30,837 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #10,522 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 72 born since 2000, peaking in the 2010s.
- #30,837 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #10,522 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 72
- born since 2000
- 2010s
- peak decade
Raelen's 72 recorded births place it above 57.3% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Raelen compares
72 20th percentile among 17,297 names currently given to girls
Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked girls names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.
Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data
How the numbers stack up
Raelen's all-time total is 81% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Raelen | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 72 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 9 | 21 | 19,840 |
Raelen's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Divide Raelen's SSA record in two at 2017 and the more recent half accounts for 56% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 44%, a genuinely balanced usage pattern. Its calmest year was 2016, with only 5 births recorded -- set against the 2025 peak of 9, that's the full swing in one name's fortunes.
Raelen popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2000–2025
- Peak year (2025)
- 9
- Annual births at peak, across 26 years of records
Raelen by decade
2010s is the heaviest window (31 births, 43% of the file).
2010s was Raelen's strongest decade.
31 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 43% of all-time use.
Raelen births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2000s
2000s
21 births
- 2010s
2010s
31 births
- 2020s
2020s
20 births
What this shows Peak: 2010s at 31 births (43% of all-time use).
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- Raelen's usage has stayed within range of its 2010s decade-level peak (31 total births) through the 2020s (20) -- a comparatively stable name, not a fading trend.
Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Two nationwide peer axes for Raelen: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
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Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 2000–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Raelen draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.