Rayleen
Rayleen was given to 26 girls in 2025, #5,067 among girls’ names; 1,255 Americans have been recorded with it since 1942 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,190 Americans named Rayleen and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 25 years old and half are between 14 and 43.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rayleen by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Rayleen?
#5,067 among girls’ names, 2025
Rayleen rose from #8,340 in 2015 to #5,067 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 7.8 to 16.2 per million.
35 babies in 2022, the peak
Rayleen peaked in 2022, when 35 girls were given it, #4,180 among girls’ names. The 26 births of 2025 are 74% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 26 | #5,067 | 16.2 |
| 2024 | 27 | #4,993 | 16.7 |
| 2023 | 35 | #4,169 | 21.8 |
| 2022 | 35 | #4,180 | 21.3 |
| 2021 | 27 | #4,925 | 16.5 |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,899 | 4.9 |
| 2019 | 15 | #7,635 | 8.9 |
| 2018 | 22 | #5,740 | 12.9 |
| 2017 | 21 | #5,993 | 12.2 |
| 2016 | 23 | #5,759 | 13.0 |
Every recorded year (80)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 14 | #8,340 | 7.8 |
| 2014 | 20 | #6,390 | 11.2 |
| 2013 | 18 | #6,959 | 10.3 |
| 2012 | 26 | #5,374 | 14.8 |
| 2011 | 21 | #6,292 | 11.9 |
| 2010 | 28 | #5,076 | 15.8 |
| 2009 | 34 | #4,457 | 18.5 |
| 2008 | 34 | #4,530 | 18.0 |
| 2007 | 28 | #5,195 | 14.6 |
| 2006 | 23 | #5,864 | 12.1 |
| 2005 | 24 | #5,393 | 13.0 |
| 2004 | 25 | #5,174 | 13.6 |
| 2003 | 28 | #4,634 | 15.3 |
| 2002 | 30 | #4,253 | 16.7 |
| 2001 | 32 | #4,003 | 17.8 |
| 2000 | 19 | #5,885 | 10.5 |
| 1999 | 19 | #5,598 | 10.7 |
| 1998 | 28 | #4,109 | 15.8 |
| 1997 | 27 | #4,097 | 15.5 |
| 1996 | 18 | #5,467 | 10.3 |
| 1995 | 21 | #4,802 | 11.9 |
| 1994 | 14 | #6,568 | 7.8 |
| 1993 | 25 | #4,212 | 13.8 |
| 1992 | 12 | #7,398 | 6.5 |
| 1991 | 12 | #7,288 | 6.4 |
| 1990 | 9 | #9,034 | 4.7 |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,555 | 4.9 |
| 1988 | 12 | #6,570 | 6.7 |
| 1987 | 9 | #7,830 | 5.2 |
| 1986 | 18 | #4,492 | 10.5 |
| 1985 | 9 | #7,404 | 5.2 |
| 1984 | 5 | #11,688 | 3.0 |
| 1983 | 15 | #4,830 | 9.0 |
| 1982 | 10 | #6,730 | 5.9 |
| 1981 | 6 | #10,044 | 3.6 |
| 1980 | 10 | #6,642 | 6.0 |
| 1979 | 9 | #7,146 | 5.6 |
| 1978 | 7 | #8,308 | 4.6 |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,815 | 3.3 |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,897 | 4.8 |
| 1975 | 11 | #5,413 | 7.5 |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,810 | 3.4 |
| 1973 | 10 | #5,476 | 6.9 |
| 1972 | 10 | #5,359 | 6.6 |
| 1971 | 10 | #5,420 | 6.0 |
| 1970 | 8 | #6,222 | 4.6 |
| 1969 | 15 | #3,729 | 8.9 |
| 1968 | 10 | #4,698 | 6.1 |
| 1967 | 13 | #3,788 | 7.9 |
| 1966 | 5 | #7,350 | 3.0 |
| 1965 | 12 | #3,903 | 6.8 |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,551 | 2.6 |
| 1963 | 13 | #3,760 | 6.7 |
| 1962 | 15 | #3,395 | 7.6 |
| 1961 | 16 | #3,293 | 7.9 |
| 1960 | 9 | #4,689 | 4.5 |
| 1959 | 9 | #4,550 | 4.4 |
| 1958 | 8 | #4,801 | 4.0 |
| 1957 | 7 | #5,262 | 3.4 |
| 1956 | 8 | #4,742 | 4.0 |
| 1955 | 18 | #2,700 | 9.2 |
| 1954 | 11 | #3,659 | 5.7 |
| 1953 | 9 | #4,162 | 4.8 |
| 1952 | 16 | #2,770 | 8.6 |
| 1950 | 9 | #3,890 | 5.3 |
| 1949 | 8 | #4,157 | 4.7 |
| 1948 | 6 | #5,128 | 3.5 |
| 1947 | 6 | #5,160 | 3.4 |
| 1943 | 6 | #4,585 | 4.3 |
| 1942 | 8 | #3,660 | 5.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Rayleen a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Rayleen has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 80 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Rayleen: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rayleen, and how old are they?
1,190 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 1,255 Americans ever recorded as Rayleen. The median Rayleen alive today is 25 years old; half are between 14 and 43.
The 2020 Census counted 927 people named Rayleen (921 women and girls, 6 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,053 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 7 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 137 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 136 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 199 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 421 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 289 |
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 Rayleen born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 9 | #2,241 | 3.4× |
| Texas | 7 | #2,860 | 0.2× |
Where Rayleen is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Rayleen is most over-represented in California: since 1942 it was given 3.4 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 Rayleen 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 7 names spelled alike, given to 9,135 babies since 1880, Rayleen is the third most given (14% of them). In 2025 it was given to 26 of their 355 babies (7.3%), the fourth 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 Rayleen
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 Rayleen and names like it
- Compare Rayleen and RaylynnBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sRayleen peaked in 2022.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Rayleen since 1910.
- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Rayleen.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Rayleen alive today were born 1997-2012.
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