Raleigh — #2256 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Raleigh

The Social Security Administration has registered 9,213 babies named Raleigh between 1880 and 2024, spanning 145 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Raleigh currently holds the #2256 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1921, when 139 babies received it in a single year. Raleigh is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 2,952 additional births since 1923.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Raleigh performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 1,165 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Raleigh shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in North Carolina, which accounts for 605 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Virginia and Georgia. In total, SSA state-level files list Raleigh in 24 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Raleigh in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 9,213 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.