Raley
Raley was given to 5 girls in 2025, #16,711 among girls’ names; 383 Americans have been recorded with it since 1988 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Raley by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Raley?
#16,711 among girls’ names, 2025
Raley fell from #10,699 in 2015 to #16,711 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 5.6 to 3.1 per million.
25 babies in 2007, the peak
Raley peaked in 2007, when 25 girls were given it, #5,658 among girls’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 20% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #16,711 | 3.1 |
| 2024 | 9 | #10,912 | 5.6 |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,526 | 6.7 |
| 2021 | 11 | #9,408 | 6.7 |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,892 | 4.9 |
| 2018 | 9 | #11,234 | 5.3 |
| 2017 | 7 | #13,783 | 4.1 |
| 2016 | 11 | #9,942 | 6.2 |
| 2015 | 10 | #10,699 | 5.6 |
| 2014 | 12 | #9,414 | 6.7 |
Every recorded year (30)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 16 | #7,669 | 9.1 |
| 2012 | 6 | #16,407 | 3.4 |
| 2011 | 12 | #9,590 | 6.8 |
| 2010 | 18 | #7,149 | 10.1 |
| 2009 | 17 | #7,609 | 9.3 |
| 2008 | 20 | #6,752 | 10.6 |
| 2007 | 25 | #5,658 | 13.0 |
| 2006 | 22 | #6,080 | 11.6 |
| 2005 | 9 | #11,598 | 4.9 |
| 2004 | 10 | #10,506 | 5.4 |
| 2003 | 20 | #5,986 | 10.9 |
| 2002 | 20 | #5,843 | 11.1 |
| 2001 | 16 | #6,895 | 8.9 |
| 2000 | 15 | #7,065 | 8.3 |
| 1999 | 14 | #7,135 | 7.9 |
| 1998 | 10 | #9,107 | 5.7 |
| 1997 | 16 | #6,097 | 9.2 |
| 1996 | 8 | #10,291 | 4.6 |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,572 | 5.7 |
| 1988 | 6 | #11,370 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Raley a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Raley has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 30 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Raley: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Raley, and how old are they?
An estimated 379 Americans named Raley and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 13 and 24. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 505 people named Raley (401 women and girls, 104 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 338 born in the U.S. The Census count is 49% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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 9,301 babies since 1880, Raley is the fourth most given (4.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 309 babies (1.6%), the seventh 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 Raley
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 Raley and names like it
- Compare Raley and RayleeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sRaley peaked in 2007.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Raley since 1910.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Raley.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Raley alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with RMost given first.