Raylee
Raylee was given to 199 girls in 2025, #1,168 among girls’ names; 5,131 Americans have been recorded with it since 1988 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,090 Americans named Raylee and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 7 and 17.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Raylee by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Raylee?
#1,168 among girls’ names, 2025
Raylee fell from #1,023 in 2015 to #1,168 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.15 to 0.12 per 1,000.
318 babies in 2017, the peak
Raylee peaked in 2017, when 318 babies were given it (312 girls, #879 among girls’ names). The 199 births of 2025 are 63% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 199 | #1,168 | 0.12 |
| 2024 | 186 | #1,258 | 0.11 |
| 2023 | 195 | #1,222 | 0.12 |
| 2022 | 219 | #1,127 | 0.13 |
| 2021 | 234 | #1,073 | 0.14 |
| 2020 | 224 | #1,092 | 0.14 |
| 2019 | 230 | #1,087 | 0.14 |
| 2018 | 254 | #1,023 | 0.15 |
| 2017 | 312 | #879 | 0.18 |
| 2016 | 258 | #1,029 | 0.15 |
Every recorded year (36)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 262 | #1,023 | 0.15 |
| 2014 | 252 | #1,031 | 0.14 |
| 2013 | 240 | #1,038 | 0.14 |
| 2012 | 273 | #938 | 0.16 |
| 2011 | 224 | #1,102 | 0.13 |
| 2010 | 230 | #1,088 | 0.13 |
| 2009 | 223 | #1,140 | 0.12 |
| 2008 | 153 | #1,526 | 0.08 |
| 2007 | 155 | #1,501 | 0.08 |
| 2006 | 123 | #1,706 | 0.06 |
| 2005 | 98 | #1,960 | 0.05 |
| 2004 | 79 | #2,235 | 0.04 |
| 2003 | 79 | #2,197 | 0.04 |
| 2002 | 68 | #2,369 | 0.04 |
| 2001 | 51 | #2,865 | 0.03 |
| 2000 | 50 | #2,886 | 0.03 |
| 1999 | 34 | #3,621 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 34 | #3,549 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 24 | #4,479 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 13 | #7,037 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 24 | #4,315 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,622 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 5 | #15,191 | under 0.01 |
| 1991 | 6 | #12,693 | under 0.01 |
| 1990 | 11 | #7,724 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 5 | #13,333 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Raylee a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 5,131 Americans recorded as Raylee, 98% are girls and 2% boys. In 2025 it went to 199 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 Raylee: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Raylee, and how old are they?
5,090 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 5,131 Americans ever recorded as Raylee. The median Raylee alive today is 11 years old; half are between 7 and 17.
The 2020 Census counted 3,545 people named Raylee (3,412 women and girls, 133 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,898 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 79 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,940 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 3,080 |
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).
Where are babies named Raylee born?
The states with the most babies named Raylee are Texas, Kentucky and Tennessee, with 38% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Kentucky and Tennessee are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 30 | #978 | 1.4× |
| Kentucky | 13 | #360 | 3.1× |
| Tennessee | 11 | #695 | 1.4× |
| Oklahoma | 10 | #430 | 4.4× |
| Missouri | 9 | #627 | 1.7× |
| Georgia | 9 | #1,049 | 0.9× |
| Alabama | 8 | #623 | 2.2× |
| California | 8 | #2,445 | 0.1× |
| North Carolina | 7 | #1,249 | 0.8× |
| Louisiana | 6 | #758 | 1.8× |
Where Raylee is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Raylee is most over-represented in Oklahoma: since 1988 it was given 4.4 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Raylee with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 11,081 babies since 1880, Raylee is the most given (46% of them). In 2025 it was given to 199 of their 466 babies (43%), again the 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 Raylee
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 Raylee and names like it
- Compare Raylee and RaeleeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sRaylee peaked in 2017.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Raylee since 1910.
- The top names of 2017The year the most babies were named Raylee.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Raylee alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with RMost given first.