Raelyn
Raelyn was given to 592 girls in 2025, #502 among girls’ names; 15,864 Americans have been recorded with it since 1949 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 15,700 Americans named Raelyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 6 and 15.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Raelyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Raelyn mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Raelyn is “a female given name originating as a coinage.”
20th-century coinage from Rae + Lyn.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Raelyn?
#502 among girls’ names, 2025
Raelyn fell from #342 in 2015 to #502 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.54 to 0.37 per 1,000.
1,034 babies in 2017, the peak
Raelyn peaked in 2017, when 1,034 babies were given it (1,027 girls, #316 among girls’ names). The 598 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 58% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 592 | #502 | 0.37 |
| 2024 | 736 | #422 | 0.45 |
| 2023 | 773 | #397 | 0.48 |
| 2022 | 821 | #382 | 0.50 |
| 2021 | 824 | #381 | 0.50 |
| 2020 | 837 | #371 | 0.52 |
| 2019 | 922 | #342 | 0.55 |
| 2018 | 993 | #327 | 0.58 |
| 2017 | 1,027 | #316 | 0.59 |
| 2016 | 1,029 | #317 | 0.58 |
Every recorded year (71)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 963 | #342 | 0.54 |
| 2014 | 784 | #410 | 0.44 |
| 2013 | 732 | #415 | 0.42 |
| 2012 | 696 | #449 | 0.40 |
| 2011 | 494 | #585 | 0.28 |
| 2010 | 382 | #732 | 0.21 |
| 2009 | 289 | #927 | 0.16 |
| 2008 | 250 | #1,047 | 0.13 |
| 2007 | 232 | #1,120 | 0.12 |
| 2006 | 195 | #1,237 | 0.10 |
| 2005 | 185 | #1,234 | 0.10 |
| 2004 | 142 | #1,446 | 0.08 |
| 2003 | 149 | #1,362 | 0.08 |
| 2002 | 132 | #1,449 | 0.07 |
| 2001 | 112 | #1,639 | 0.06 |
| 2000 | 108 | #1,640 | 0.06 |
| 1999 | 100 | #1,661 | 0.06 |
| 1998 | 90 | #1,756 | 0.05 |
| 1997 | 100 | #1,601 | 0.06 |
| 1996 | 73 | #1,957 | 0.04 |
| 1995 | 66 | #2,070 | 0.04 |
| 1994 | 70 | #2,014 | 0.04 |
| 1993 | 59 | #2,228 | 0.03 |
| 1992 | 67 | #2,045 | 0.04 |
| 1991 | 55 | #2,335 | 0.03 |
| 1990 | 41 | #2,834 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 36 | #3,022 | 0.02 |
| 1988 | 43 | #2,514 | 0.02 |
| 1987 | 33 | #2,956 | 0.02 |
| 1986 | 25 | #3,522 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 25 | #3,486 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 22 | #3,687 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 28 | #3,044 | 0.02 |
| 1982 | 34 | #2,749 | 0.02 |
| 1981 | 25 | #3,406 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 33 | #2,785 | 0.02 |
| 1979 | 18 | #4,175 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 23 | #3,358 | 0.02 |
| 1977 | 11 | #5,783 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 15 | #4,287 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 21 | #3,370 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,693 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 19 | #3,437 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 14 | #4,244 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 22 | #3,129 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 11 | #4,988 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 18 | #3,289 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 22 | #2,771 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 18 | #3,042 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 10 | #4,408 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 10 | #4,432 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 15 | #3,475 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 10 | #4,468 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 14 | #3,555 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 6 | #6,382 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 12 | #3,868 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 12 | #3,770 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 17 | #2,941 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 7 | #5,256 | under 0.01 |
| 1950 | 6 | #5,155 | under 0.01 |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,863 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Raelyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Raelyn has been given almost only to girls: 96 boys in 71 years of records.
Girls and boys named Raelyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Raelyn, and how old are they?
15,700 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 15,864 Americans ever recorded as Raelyn. The median Raelyn alive today is 10 years old; half are between 6 and 15.
The 2020 Census counted 9,791 people named Raelyn (9,734 women and girls, 57 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 11,334 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 86 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 254 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 684 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,630 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 11,100 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Raelyn born?
The states with the most babies named Raelyn are Florida, Texas and Tennessee, with 23% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Tennessee is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 48 | #394 | 1.1× |
| Texas | 45 | #682 | 0.7× |
| Tennessee | 36 | #225 | 1.5× |
| Georgia | 31 | #362 | 1.4× |
| California | 30 | #947 | 0.4× |
| Ohio | 27 | #427 | 1.1× |
| North Carolina | 23 | #486 | 1.3× |
| South Carolina | 22 | #226 | 1.6× |
| Virginia | 22 | #373 | 0.8× |
| Missouri | 19 | #325 | 1.1× |
Where Raelyn is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Raelyn is most over-represented in Kentucky: since 1949 it was given 1.8 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Raelyn with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 60,350 babies since 1880, Raelyn is the second most given (26% of them). In 2025 it was given to 598 of their 3,334 babies (18%), again the second 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 Raelyn
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 Raelyn and names like it
- Compare Raelyn and RaelynnBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sRaelyn peaked in 2017.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Raelyn since 1910.
- Coined namesWiktionary’s origin for Raelyn: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2017The year the most babies were named Raelyn.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Raelyn alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with RMost given first.