Rayley
Rayley was given to 6 girls in 2025, #14,538 among girls’ names; 202 Americans have been recorded with it since 2002 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rayley by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Rayley?
#14,538 among girls’ names, 2025
Rayley rose from #16,002 in 2015 to #14,538 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 3.4 to 3.7 per million.
16 babies in 2011, the peak
Rayley peaked in 2011, when 16 girls were given it, #7,707 among girls’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 38% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #14,538 | 3.7 |
| 2024 | 7 | #13,156 | 4.3 |
| 2023 | 8 | #11,969 | 5.0 |
| 2022 | 8 | #11,998 | 4.9 |
| 2021 | 7 | #13,188 | 4.3 |
| 2020 | 10 | #10,105 | 6.2 |
| 2019 | 7 | #13,490 | 4.2 |
| 2018 | 7 | #13,500 | 4.1 |
| 2017 | 5 | #17,884 | 2.9 |
| 2016 | 11 | #9,949 | 6.2 |
Every recorded year (24)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 6 | #16,002 | 3.4 |
| 2014 | 11 | #10,012 | 6.2 |
| 2013 | 8 | #12,902 | 4.6 |
| 2012 | 12 | #9,586 | 6.8 |
| 2011 | 16 | #7,707 | 9.1 |
| 2010 | 7 | #14,632 | 3.9 |
| 2009 | 10 | #11,298 | 5.4 |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,634 | 5.8 |
| 2007 | 9 | #12,431 | 4.7 |
| 2006 | 10 | #11,234 | 5.3 |
| 2005 | 6 | #15,994 | 3.2 |
| 2004 | 8 | #12,477 | 4.4 |
| 2003 | 7 | #13,494 | 3.8 |
| 2002 | 5 | #17,495 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Rayley a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Rayley has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 24 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Rayley: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rayley, and how old are they?
An estimated 200 Americans named Rayley and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 7 and 18. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 195 people named Rayley (179 women and girls, 16 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 157 born in the U.S. The Census count is 24% 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).
How common is the spelling Rayley?
Rayley is a less common spelling of Raylee: SSA has recorded 202 Rayley and 5,131 Raylee since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 10,793 babies since 1880, Rayley is the eighth most given (1.9% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6 of their 447 babies (1.3%), 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 Rayley
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 Rayley and names like it
- Compare Rayley and RayleeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sRayley peaked in 2011.
- The top names of 2011The year the most babies were named Rayley.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Rayley alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with RMost given first.