Railey
Railey was given to 17 girls in 2025, #6,765 among girls’ names; 820 Americans have been recorded with it since 1995 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Railey by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Railey?
#6,765 among girls’ names, 2025
Railey fell from #4,951 in 2015 to #6,765 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 15.7 to 10.6 per million.
51 babies in 2006, the peak
Railey peaked in 2006, when 51 babies were given it (46 girls, #3,491 among girls’ names). The 17 births of 2025 are 33% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 17 | #6,765 | 10.6 |
| 2024 | 13 | #8,321 | 8.0 |
| 2023 | 14 | #7,960 | 8.7 |
| 2022 | 23 | #5,589 | 14.0 |
| 2021 | 20 | #6,118 | 12.2 |
| 2020 | 10 | #10,100 | 6.2 |
| 2019 | 29 | #4,748 | 17.3 |
| 2018 | 19 | #6,460 | 11.2 |
| 2017 | 20 | #6,232 | 11.6 |
| 2016 | 35 | #4,220 | 19.8 |
Every recorded year (31)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 28 | #4,951 | 15.7 |
| 2014 | 30 | #4,743 | 16.8 |
| 2013 | 31 | #4,618 | 17.7 |
| 2012 | 37 | #4,100 | 21.0 |
| 2011 | 33 | #4,445 | 18.8 |
| 2010 | 41 | #3,799 | 23.1 |
| 2009 | 38 | #4,080 | 20.7 |
| 2008 | 35 | #4,431 | 18.5 |
| 2007 | 48 | #3,459 | 25.0 |
| 2006 | 46 | #3,491 | 24.2 |
| 2005 | 26 | #5,074 | 14.1 |
| 2004 | 25 | #5,173 | 13.6 |
| 2003 | 38 | #3,711 | 20.8 |
| 2002 | 24 | #5,049 | 13.4 |
| 2001 | 20 | #5,753 | 11.1 |
| 2000 | 17 | #6,405 | 9.4 |
| 1999 | 20 | #5,371 | 11.3 |
| 1998 | 15 | #6,622 | 8.5 |
| 1997 | 5 | #15,534 | 2.9 |
| 1996 | 8 | #10,290 | 4.6 |
| 1995 | 7 | #11,451 | 4.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Railey a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 820 Americans recorded as Railey, 94% are girls and 6% boys. In 2025 it went to 17 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Railey: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Railey, and how old are they?
An estimated 813 Americans named Railey and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 11 and 21. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 752 people named Railey (651 women and girls, 101 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 720 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% above 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 Railey?
Railey is a less common spelling of Raylee: SSA has recorded 820 Railey and 5,131 Raylee since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 9,301 babies since 1880, Railey is the third most given (8.8% of them). In 2025 it was given to 17 of their 309 babies (5.5%), again the third 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 Railey
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 Railey and names like it
- Compare Railey and RayleeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sRailey peaked in 2006.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Railey since 1910.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Railey.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Railey alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with RMost given first.