Rayleigh — #1449 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Rayleigh

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,850 babies named Rayleigh between 1995 and 2024, spanning 30 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Rayleigh currently holds the #1449 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2018, when 189 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Rayleigh performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 1,567 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Rayleigh shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 395 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Alabama and Kentucky. In total, SSA state-level files list Rayleigh in 22 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Rayleigh 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 2,850 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.