Raylene
Raylene was given to 16 girls in 2025, #7,067 among girls’ names; 4,065 Americans have been recorded with it since 1926 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,540 Americans named Raylene and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (87% of everyone recorded); the median is 41 years old and half are between 23 and 63.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Raylene by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Raylene?
#7,067 among girls’ names, 2025
Raylene fell from #4,378 in 2015 to #7,067 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 18.5 to 10.0 per million.
79 babies in 1961, the peak
Raylene peaked in 1961, when 79 girls were given it, #1,249 among girls’ names. The 16 births of 2025 are 20% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 16 | #7,067 | 10.0 |
| 2024 | 18 | #6,591 | 11.1 |
| 2023 | 33 | #4,344 | 20.6 |
| 2022 | 29 | #4,766 | 17.7 |
| 2021 | 28 | #4,808 | 17.1 |
| 2020 | 21 | #5,808 | 13.0 |
| 2019 | 18 | #6,643 | 10.7 |
| 2018 | 33 | #4,326 | 19.4 |
| 2017 | 40 | #3,825 | 23.2 |
| 2016 | 28 | #4,957 | 15.8 |
Every recorded year (100)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 33 | #4,378 | 18.5 |
| 2014 | 44 | #3,573 | 24.6 |
| 2013 | 36 | #4,137 | 20.5 |
| 2012 | 61 | #2,858 | 34.6 |
| 2011 | 35 | #4,221 | 19.9 |
| 2010 | 53 | #3,150 | 29.8 |
| 2009 | 58 | #2,991 | 31.6 |
| 2008 | 54 | #3,150 | 28.6 |
| 2007 | 43 | #3,770 | 22.4 |
| 2006 | 61 | #2,880 | 32.1 |
| 2005 | 50 | #3,158 | 27.1 |
| 2004 | 57 | #2,833 | 31.0 |
| 2003 | 62 | #2,598 | 33.9 |
| 2002 | 69 | #2,344 | 38.4 |
| 2001 | 66 | #2,400 | 36.7 |
| 2000 | 71 | #2,228 | 39.1 |
| 1999 | 53 | #2,664 | 29.9 |
| 1998 | 57 | #2,448 | 32.3 |
| 1997 | 52 | #2,501 | 29.9 |
| 1996 | 59 | #2,272 | 33.7 |
| 1995 | 54 | #2,408 | 30.7 |
| 1994 | 52 | #2,445 | 29.1 |
| 1993 | 53 | #2,400 | 29.3 |
| 1992 | 41 | #2,905 | 22.2 |
| 1991 | 40 | #2,914 | 21.3 |
| 1990 | 35 | #3,203 | 18.4 |
| 1989 | 51 | #2,326 | 27.7 |
| 1988 | 53 | #2,175 | 29.8 |
| 1987 | 35 | #2,829 | 20.1 |
| 1986 | 31 | #3,029 | 18.1 |
| 1985 | 49 | #2,161 | 28.5 |
| 1984 | 28 | #3,122 | 16.6 |
| 1983 | 34 | #2,637 | 20.4 |
| 1982 | 39 | #2,481 | 23.0 |
| 1981 | 41 | #2,398 | 24.6 |
| 1980 | 26 | #3,292 | 15.7 |
| 1979 | 35 | #2,614 | 21.8 |
| 1978 | 31 | #2,726 | 20.2 |
| 1977 | 33 | #2,600 | 21.5 |
| 1976 | 44 | #2,020 | 30.0 |
| 1975 | 37 | #2,267 | 25.4 |
| 1974 | 49 | #1,814 | 33.4 |
| 1973 | 30 | #2,491 | 20.6 |
| 1972 | 45 | #1,879 | 29.6 |
| 1971 | 36 | #2,233 | 21.6 |
| 1970 | 45 | #1,928 | 25.7 |
| 1969 | 50 | #1,720 | 29.6 |
| 1968 | 44 | #1,805 | 26.8 |
| 1967 | 42 | #1,810 | 25.4 |
| 1966 | 59 | #1,442 | 34.9 |
| 1965 | 69 | #1,318 | 39.1 |
| 1964 | 61 | #1,458 | 32.2 |
| 1963 | 62 | #1,424 | 32.2 |
| 1962 | 72 | #1,311 | 36.6 |
| 1961 | 79 | #1,249 | 39.1 |
| 1960 | 62 | #1,399 | 30.7 |
| 1959 | 66 | #1,321 | 32.6 |
| 1958 | 61 | #1,361 | 30.3 |
| 1957 | 61 | #1,364 | 29.8 |
| 1956 | 57 | #1,393 | 28.4 |
| 1955 | 55 | #1,359 | 28.1 |
| 1954 | 50 | #1,433 | 25.7 |
| 1953 | 52 | #1,355 | 27.6 |
| 1952 | 57 | #1,266 | 30.7 |
| 1951 | 48 | #1,353 | 26.7 |
| 1950 | 53 | #1,269 | 30.9 |
| 1949 | 56 | #1,217 | 32.7 |
| 1948 | 42 | #1,432 | 24.7 |
| 1947 | 50 | #1,297 | 28.2 |
| 1946 | 39 | #1,413 | 24.8 |
| 1945 | 28 | #1,567 | 21.4 |
| 1944 | 33 | #1,422 | 24.9 |
| 1943 | 29 | #1,581 | 20.8 |
| 1942 | 20 | #1,966 | 14.8 |
| 1941 | 38 | #1,236 | 31.5 |
| 1940 | 26 | #1,544 | 22.7 |
| 1939 | 18 | #1,941 | 16.4 |
| 1938 | 22 | #1,693 | 19.9 |
| 1937 | 17 | #1,983 | 16.0 |
| 1936 | 9 | #3,051 | 8.7 |
| 1935 | 16 | #2,081 | 15.3 |
| 1934 | 5 | #4,833 | 4.8 |
| 1933 | 13 | #2,376 | 12.9 |
| 1932 | 9 | #3,227 | 8.4 |
| 1931 | 7 | #3,781 | 6.6 |
| 1930 | 13 | #2,535 | 11.5 |
| 1929 | 8 | #3,625 | 7.2 |
| 1928 | 8 | #3,687 | 6.9 |
| 1927 | 8 | #3,805 | 6.7 |
| 1926 | 6 | #4,731 | 5.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Raylene a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Raylene has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 100 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Raylene: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Raylene, and how old are they?
3,540 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 87% of the 4,065 Americans ever recorded as Raylene. The median Raylene alive today is 41 years old; half are between 23 and 63.
The 2020 Census counted 3,007 people named Raylene (2,994 women and girls, 13 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,548 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% 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 | 120 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 850 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 623 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 676 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 892 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 375 |
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 Raylene born?
The states with the most babies named Raylene are California, Texas and Pennsylvania, with 96% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 1,649 | #1,915 | 3.8× |
| Texas | 40 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 23 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Arizona | 17 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Colorado | 11 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Michigan | 10 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Illinois | 6 | not ranked | 0.0× |
| Massachusetts | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Maine | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Ohio | 5 | not ranked | 0.0× |
Where Raylene is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Raylene is most over-represented in California: since 1926 it was given 3.8 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 Raylene 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 6 names spelled alike, given to 7,071 babies since 1880, Raylene is the most given (57% of them). In 2025 it was given to 16 of their 48 babies (33%), 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 Raylene
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 Raylene and names like it
- Compare Raylene and RaeleneBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sRaylene peaked in 1961.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Raylene since 1910.
- The top names of 1961The year the most babies were named Raylene.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Raylene alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with RMost given first.