Railee
Railee was given to 15 girls in 2025, #7,409 among girls’ names; 355 Americans have been recorded with it since 1999 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Railee by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Railee?
#7,409 among girls’ names, 2025
Railee rose from #7,527 in 2015 to #7,409 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 9.0 to 9.3 per million.
27 babies in 2011, the peak
Railee peaked in 2011, when 27 girls were given it, #5,169 among girls’ names. The 15 births of 2025 are 56% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15 | #7,409 | 9.3 |
| 2024 | 14 | #7,871 | 8.6 |
| 2023 | 10 | #10,155 | 6.2 |
| 2022 | 13 | #8,413 | 7.9 |
| 2021 | 13 | #8,361 | 7.9 |
| 2020 | 15 | #7,487 | 9.3 |
| 2019 | 17 | #6,948 | 10.1 |
| 2018 | 19 | #6,459 | 11.2 |
| 2017 | 15 | #7,756 | 8.7 |
| 2016 | 19 | #6,613 | 10.7 |
Every recorded year (25)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 16 | #7,527 | 9.0 |
| 2014 | 17 | #7,231 | 9.5 |
| 2013 | 19 | #6,662 | 10.8 |
| 2012 | 22 | #6,070 | 12.5 |
| 2011 | 27 | #5,169 | 15.3 |
| 2010 | 17 | #7,436 | 9.6 |
| 2009 | 17 | #7,608 | 9.3 |
| 2008 | 15 | #8,435 | 7.9 |
| 2007 | 5 | #19,829 | 2.6 |
| 2006 | 11 | #10,450 | 5.8 |
| 2005 | 14 | #8,229 | 7.6 |
| 2004 | 6 | #15,624 | 3.3 |
| 2003 | 8 | #12,125 | 4.4 |
| 2002 | 5 | #17,478 | 2.8 |
| 1999 | 6 | #13,995 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Railee a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Railee has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 25 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Railee: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Railee, and how old are they?
An estimated 352 Americans named Railee and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 7 and 16. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 248 people named Railee (237 women and girls, 11 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 277 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% 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.
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 Railee?
Railee is a less common spelling of Raylee: SSA has recorded 355 Railee and 5,131 Raylee since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 9,742 babies since 1880, Railee is the seventh most given (3.6% of them). In 2025 it was given to 15 of their 340 babies (4.4%), the fifth 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 Railee
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 Railee and names like it
- Compare Railee and RayleeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sRailee peaked in 2011.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Railee since 1910.
- The top names of 2011The year the most babies were named Railee.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Railee alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with RMost given first.