Raelynn
Raelynn was given to 2,326 girls in 2025, #116 among girls’ names; 34,722 Americans have been recorded with it since 1947 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 34,400 Americans named Raelynn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 7 years old and half are between 4 and 11.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Raelynn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Raelynn mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Raelynn is “a female given name.”
20th-century invention; see Lynn.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Raelynn?
#116 among girls’ names, 2025
Raelynn rose from #179 in 2015 to #116 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 1.0 to 1.4 per 1,000.
2,734 babies in 2022, the peak
Raelynn peaked in 2022, when 2,734 babies were given it (2,726 girls, #99 among girls’ names). The 2,326 births of 2025 are 85% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 2,326 | #116 | 1.4 |
| 2024 | 2,422 | #113 | 1.5 |
| 2023 | 2,415 | #112 | 1.5 |
| 2022 | 2,726 | #99 | 1.7 |
| 2021 | 2,683 | #103 | 1.6 |
| 2020 | 2,611 | #104 | 1.6 |
| 2019 | 2,573 | #113 | 1.5 |
| 2018 | 2,617 | #116 | 1.5 |
| 2017 | 2,459 | #124 | 1.4 |
| 2016 | 1,986 | #158 | 1.1 |
Every recorded year (75)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 1,807 | #179 | 1.0 |
| 2014 | 1,238 | #266 | 0.69 |
| 2013 | 1,121 | #283 | 0.64 |
| 2012 | 932 | #337 | 0.53 |
| 2011 | 599 | #495 | 0.34 |
| 2010 | 469 | #628 | 0.26 |
| 2009 | 330 | #847 | 0.18 |
| 2008 | 303 | #909 | 0.16 |
| 2007 | 249 | #1,056 | 0.13 |
| 2006 | 174 | #1,341 | 0.09 |
| 2005 | 152 | #1,414 | 0.08 |
| 2004 | 147 | #1,420 | 0.08 |
| 2003 | 130 | #1,506 | 0.07 |
| 2002 | 127 | #1,495 | 0.07 |
| 2001 | 126 | #1,495 | 0.07 |
| 2000 | 109 | #1,626 | 0.06 |
| 1999 | 115 | #1,497 | 0.06 |
| 1998 | 104 | #1,582 | 0.06 |
| 1997 | 79 | #1,873 | 0.05 |
| 1996 | 80 | #1,834 | 0.05 |
| 1995 | 78 | #1,829 | 0.04 |
| 1994 | 77 | #1,849 | 0.04 |
| 1993 | 67 | #2,056 | 0.04 |
| 1992 | 69 | #1,997 | 0.04 |
| 1991 | 69 | #2,003 | 0.04 |
| 1990 | 47 | #2,553 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 66 | #1,952 | 0.04 |
| 1988 | 55 | #2,116 | 0.03 |
| 1987 | 46 | #2,324 | 0.03 |
| 1986 | 41 | #2,455 | 0.02 |
| 1985 | 50 | #2,123 | 0.03 |
| 1984 | 38 | #2,503 | 0.02 |
| 1983 | 47 | #2,120 | 0.03 |
| 1982 | 44 | #2,274 | 0.03 |
| 1981 | 40 | #2,437 | 0.02 |
| 1980 | 38 | #2,522 | 0.02 |
| 1979 | 34 | #2,657 | 0.02 |
| 1978 | 20 | #3,732 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 25 | #3,149 | 0.02 |
| 1976 | 28 | #2,778 | 0.02 |
| 1975 | 22 | #3,230 | 0.02 |
| 1974 | 17 | #3,822 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 19 | #3,438 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 25 | #2,807 | 0.02 |
| 1971 | 26 | #2,784 | 0.02 |
| 1970 | 24 | #2,914 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 34 | #2,197 | 0.02 |
| 1968 | 28 | #2,344 | 0.02 |
| 1967 | 26 | #2,419 | 0.02 |
| 1966 | 21 | #2,726 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 32 | #2,103 | 0.02 |
| 1964 | 34 | #2,064 | 0.02 |
| 1963 | 26 | #2,407 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 21 | #2,719 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 26 | #2,397 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 21 | #2,704 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 12 | #3,771 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 14 | #3,344 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 10 | #4,131 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 9 | #4,391 | under 0.01 |
| 1955 | 15 | #3,063 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 5 | #6,417 | under 0.01 |
| 1953 | 5 | #6,326 | under 0.01 |
| 1952 | 6 | #5,418 | under 0.01 |
| 1947 | 5 | #5,933 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Raelynn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Raelynn has been given almost only to girls: 51 boys in 75 years of records.
Girls and boys named Raelynn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Raelynn, and how old are they?
34,400 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 34,722 Americans ever recorded as Raelynn. The median Raelynn alive today is 7 years old; half are between 4 and 11.
The 2020 Census counted 16,458 people named Raelynn (16,431 women and girls, 27 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 19,985 born in the U.S. The Census count is 18% 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 | 174 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 389 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 890 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 4,110 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 28,900 |
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 Raelynn born?
The states with the most babies named Raelynn are Texas, Florida and Ohio, with 19% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 190 | #175 | 0.8× |
| Florida | 138 | #132 | 0.9× |
| Ohio | 119 | #74 | 1.5× |
| Georgia | 117 | #67 | 1.1× |
| North Carolina | 111 | #86 | 1.2× |
| Tennessee | 101 | #62 | 1.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 100 | #95 | 0.9× |
| Michigan | 87 | #84 | 1.2× |
| Indiana | 83 | #67 | 1.5× |
| Missouri | 79 | #57 | 1.4× |
Where Raelynn is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Raelynn is most over-represented in West Virginia: since 1947 it was given 2.1 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 Raelynn 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 58,987 babies since 1880, Raelynn is the most given (59% of them). In 2025 it was given to 2,326 of their 3,279 babies (71%), again the 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 Raelynn
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 Raelynn and names like it
- Compare Raelynn and RaelynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sRaelynn peaked in 2022.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Raelynn since 1910.
- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Raelynn.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Raelynn alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with RMost given first.