Railyn
Railyn is given to both girls and boys: 29 girls and 7 boys were given it in 2025 (#4,727 among girls’ names and #10,428 among boys’, #7,074 among all names counting both); 909 Americans have been recorded with it since 1994 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Railyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Railyn?
#4,727 among girls’ names, 2025
Railyn fell from #3,380 in 2015 to #4,727 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 26.9 to 18.0 per million.
64 babies in 2013, the peak
Railyn peaked in 2013, when 64 girls were given it, #2,719 among girls’ names. The 36 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 56% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 29 | #4,727 | 18.0 |
| 2024 | 28 | #4,860 | 17.3 |
| 2023 | 38 | #3,963 | 23.7 |
| 2022 | 30 | #4,650 | 18.3 |
| 2021 | 45 | #3,476 | 27.4 |
| 2020 | 46 | #3,381 | 28.5 |
| 2019 | 46 | #3,435 | 27.4 |
| 2018 | 45 | #3,478 | 26.5 |
| 2017 | 53 | #3,085 | 30.7 |
| 2016 | 64 | #2,731 | 36.1 |
Every recorded year (29)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 48 | #3,380 | 26.9 |
| 2014 | 53 | #3,130 | 29.7 |
| 2013 | 64 | #2,719 | 36.5 |
| 2012 | 62 | #2,827 | 35.2 |
| 2011 | 46 | #3,487 | 26.2 |
| 2010 | 22 | #6,132 | 12.4 |
| 2009 | 24 | #5,849 | 13.1 |
| 2008 | 23 | #6,094 | 12.2 |
| 2007 | 19 | #7,028 | 9.9 |
| 2006 | 14 | #8,610 | 7.4 |
| 2005 | 11 | #9,966 | 6.0 |
| 2004 | 14 | #8,128 | 7.6 |
| 2003 | 11 | #9,544 | 6.0 |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,926 | 4.5 |
| 2001 | 19 | #6,012 | 10.6 |
| 2000 | 13 | #7,927 | 7.2 |
| 1999 | 9 | #10,122 | 5.1 |
| 1997 | 6 | #13,317 | 3.4 |
| 1994 | 6 | #13,006 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Railyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 909 Americans recorded as Railyn, 99% are girls and 1% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Railyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Railyn, and how old are they?
An estimated 902 Americans named Railyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 6 and 15. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 664 people named Railyn (600 women and girls, 64 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 687 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% 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 Railyn?
Railyn is a less common spelling of Raylynn: SSA has recorded 909 Railyn and 3,889 Raylynn since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 60,350 babies since 1880, Railyn is the seventh most given (1.5% of them). In 2025 it was given to 36 of their 3,334 babies (1.1%), again the seventh 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 Railyn
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 Railyn and names like it
- Compare Railyn and RaylynnBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sRailyn peaked in 2013.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Railyn since 1910.
- The top names of 2013The year the most babies were named Railyn.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Railyn alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with RMost given first.