Railynn
Railynn was given to 49 girls in 2025, #3,241 among girls’ names; 1,008 Americans have been recorded with it since 2001 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,000 Americans named Railynn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 5 and 13.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Railynn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Railynn?
#3,241 among girls’ names, 2025
Railynn fell from #2,839 in 2015 to #3,241 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 34.7 to 30.5 per million.
80 babies in 2018, the peak
Railynn peaked in 2018, when 80 girls were given it, #2,294 among girls’ names. The 49 births of 2025 are 61% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 49 | #3,241 | 30.5 |
| 2024 | 46 | #3,444 | 28.4 |
| 2023 | 64 | #2,727 | 39.9 |
| 2022 | 71 | #2,524 | 43.3 |
| 2021 | 65 | #2,665 | 39.6 |
| 2020 | 56 | #2,927 | 34.6 |
| 2019 | 65 | #2,673 | 38.7 |
| 2018 | 80 | #2,294 | 47.0 |
| 2017 | 68 | #2,592 | 39.4 |
| 2016 | 61 | #2,820 | 34.4 |
Every recorded year (24)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 62 | #2,839 | 34.7 |
| 2014 | 54 | #3,102 | 30.2 |
| 2013 | 64 | #2,720 | 36.5 |
| 2012 | 55 | #3,080 | 31.2 |
| 2011 | 28 | #5,027 | 15.9 |
| 2010 | 32 | #4,578 | 18.0 |
| 2009 | 16 | #7,979 | 8.7 |
| 2008 | 17 | #7,662 | 9.0 |
| 2007 | 13 | #9,415 | 6.8 |
| 2006 | 9 | #12,189 | 4.7 |
| 2005 | 11 | #9,967 | 6.0 |
| 2004 | 9 | #11,404 | 4.9 |
| 2003 | 7 | #13,483 | 3.8 |
| 2001 | 6 | #14,889 | 3.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Railynn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Railynn has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 24 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Railynn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Railynn, and how old are they?
1,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,008 Americans ever recorded as Railynn. The median Railynn alive today is 9 years old; half are between 5 and 13.
The 2020 Census counted 567 people named Railynn (567 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 667 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 201 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 800 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 58,102 babies since 1880, Railynn is the fifth most given (1.7% of them). In 2025 it was given to 49 of their 3,258 babies (1.5%), again the fifth 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 Railynn
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 Railynn and names like it
- Compare Railynn and RaelynnBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sRailynn peaked in 2018.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Railynn since 1910.
- The top names of 2018The year the most babies were named Railynn.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Railynn alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with RMost given first.