Raelin
Raelin was given to 18 girls in 2025, #6,495 among girls’ names; 797 Americans have been recorded with it since 1991 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Raelin by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Raelin?
#6,495 among girls’ names, 2025
Raelin fell from #3,967 in 2015 to #6,495 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 21.3 to 11.2 per million.
45 babies in 2012, the peak
Raelin peaked in 2012, when 45 girls were given it, #3,568 among girls’ names. The 18 births of 2025 are 40% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 18 | #6,495 | 11.2 |
| 2024 | 16 | #7,178 | 9.9 |
| 2023 | 16 | #7,177 | 10.0 |
| 2022 | 15 | #7,555 | 9.1 |
| 2021 | 20 | #6,117 | 12.2 |
| 2020 | 29 | #4,626 | 17.9 |
| 2019 | 22 | #5,751 | 13.1 |
| 2018 | 43 | #3,601 | 25.3 |
| 2017 | 22 | #5,778 | 12.7 |
| 2016 | 23 | #5,756 | 13.0 |
Every recorded year (33)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 38 | #3,967 | 21.3 |
| 2014 | 39 | #3,904 | 21.8 |
| 2013 | 43 | #3,626 | 24.5 |
| 2012 | 45 | #3,568 | 25.6 |
| 2011 | 36 | #4,135 | 20.5 |
| 2010 | 40 | #3,871 | 22.5 |
| 2009 | 27 | #5,343 | 14.7 |
| 2008 | 15 | #8,434 | 7.9 |
| 2007 | 22 | #6,270 | 11.4 |
| 2006 | 41 | #3,775 | 21.6 |
| 2005 | 29 | #4,672 | 15.7 |
| 2004 | 30 | #4,579 | 16.3 |
| 2003 | 26 | #4,906 | 14.2 |
| 2002 | 17 | #6,621 | 9.5 |
| 2001 | 20 | #5,751 | 11.1 |
| 2000 | 19 | #5,881 | 10.5 |
| 1999 | 17 | #6,127 | 9.6 |
| 1998 | 14 | #6,995 | 7.9 |
| 1997 | 13 | #7,172 | 7.5 |
| 1995 | 18 | #5,382 | 10.2 |
| 1994 | 6 | #12,998 | 3.4 |
| 1993 | 6 | #13,009 | 3.3 |
| 1991 | 7 | #11,170 | 3.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Raelin a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Raelin has been given almost only to girls: 5 boys in 33 years of records.
Girls and boys named Raelin: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Raelin, and how old are they?
An estimated 790 Americans named Raelin and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 9 and 21. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 666 people named Raelin (644 women and girls, 22 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 681 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% 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).
How common is the spelling Raelin?
Raelin is a less common spelling of Raelynn: SSA has recorded 797 Raelin and 34,722 Raelynn since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 56,211 babies since 1880, Raelin is the sixth most given (1.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 18 of their 3,116 babies (<1%), again the sixth most given.
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 Raelin
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 Raelin and names like it
- Compare Raelin and RaelynnBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sRaelin peaked in 2012.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Raelin since 1910.
- The top names of 2012The year the most babies were named Raelin.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Raelin alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with RMost given first.