Raylyn
Raylyn was given to 56 girls in 2025, #2,988 among girls’ names; 1,239 Americans have been recorded with it since 1963 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,230 Americans named Raylyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 7 and 19.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Raylyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Raylyn?
#2,988 among girls’ names, 2025
Raylyn rose from #3,119 in 2015 to #2,988 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 30.3 to 34.8 per million.
70 babies in 2013, the peak
Raylyn peaked in 2013, when 70 babies were given it (60 girls, #2,864 among girls’ names). The 62 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 89% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 56 | #2,988 | 34.8 |
| 2024 | 37 | #4,019 | 22.8 |
| 2023 | 47 | #3,415 | 29.3 |
| 2022 | 58 | #2,922 | 35.4 |
| 2021 | 37 | #3,993 | 22.5 |
| 2020 | 40 | #3,726 | 24.7 |
| 2019 | 45 | #3,492 | 26.8 |
| 2018 | 54 | #3,040 | 31.7 |
| 2017 | 55 | #3,007 | 31.9 |
| 2016 | 46 | #3,456 | 26.0 |
Every recorded year (47)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 54 | #3,119 | 30.3 |
| 2014 | 51 | #3,217 | 28.5 |
| 2013 | 60 | #2,864 | 34.2 |
| 2012 | 63 | #2,796 | 35.8 |
| 2011 | 49 | #3,342 | 27.9 |
| 2010 | 37 | #4,093 | 20.8 |
| 2009 | 29 | #5,060 | 15.8 |
| 2008 | 24 | #5,912 | 12.7 |
| 2007 | 33 | #4,544 | 17.2 |
| 2006 | 19 | #6,781 | 10.0 |
| 2005 | 18 | #6,750 | 9.7 |
| 2004 | 14 | #8,130 | 7.6 |
| 2003 | 20 | #5,988 | 10.9 |
| 2002 | 12 | #8,701 | 6.7 |
| 2001 | 17 | #6,555 | 9.4 |
| 2000 | 20 | #5,640 | 11.0 |
| 1999 | 15 | #6,762 | 8.5 |
| 1998 | 21 | #5,084 | 11.9 |
| 1997 | 11 | #8,192 | 6.3 |
| 1996 | 9 | #9,386 | 5.1 |
| 1995 | 7 | #11,463 | 4.0 |
| 1994 | 8 | #10,290 | 4.5 |
| 1993 | 7 | #11,471 | 3.9 |
| 1992 | 7 | #11,394 | 3.8 |
| 1991 | 5 | #14,817 | 2.7 |
| 1990 | 6 | #12,509 | 3.2 |
| 1987 | 5 | #12,723 | 2.9 |
| 1986 | 7 | #9,300 | 4.1 |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,904 | 3.6 |
| 1980 | 5 | #11,668 | 3.0 |
| 1979 | 5 | #11,444 | 3.1 |
| 1978 | 5 | #10,996 | 3.3 |
| 1972 | 5 | #9,249 | 3.3 |
| 1969 | 5 | #8,367 | 3.0 |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,575 | 3.0 |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,552 | 2.6 |
| 1963 | 5 | #7,380 | 2.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Raylyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,239 Americans recorded as Raylyn, 93% are girls and 7% boys. In 2025 it went to 56 girls and 6 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Raylyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Raylyn, and how old are they?
1,230 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,239 Americans ever recorded as Raylyn. The median Raylyn alive today is 12 years old; half are between 7 and 19.
The 2020 Census counted 977 people named Raylyn (866 women and girls, 111 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 947 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 9 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 28 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 65 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 416 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 708 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 60,808 babies since 1880, Raylyn is the sixth most given (2.0% of them). In 2025 it was given to 62 of their 3,342 babies (1.9%), the fifth 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 Raylyn
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 Raylyn and names like it
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