Raylynn
Raylynn was given to 176 girls in 2025, #1,277 among girls’ names; 3,889 Americans have been recorded with it since 1964 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,860 Americans named Raylynn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 5 and 16.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Raylynn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Raylynn?
#1,277 among girls’ names, 2025
Raylynn fell from #1,253 in 2015 to #1,277 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born held at 0.11 per 1,000.
257 babies in 2017, the peak
Raylynn peaked in 2017, when 257 babies were given it (249 girls, #1,039 among girls’ names). The 182 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 71% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 176 | #1,277 | 0.11 |
| 2024 | 199 | #1,194 | 0.12 |
| 2023 | 186 | #1,247 | 0.12 |
| 2022 | 190 | #1,265 | 0.12 |
| 2021 | 214 | #1,147 | 0.13 |
| 2020 | 210 | #1,137 | 0.13 |
| 2019 | 212 | #1,142 | 0.13 |
| 2018 | 210 | #1,158 | 0.12 |
| 2017 | 249 | #1,039 | 0.14 |
| 2016 | 218 | #1,154 | 0.12 |
Every recorded year (52)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 196 | #1,253 | 0.11 |
| 2014 | 166 | #1,390 | 0.09 |
| 2013 | 147 | #1,507 | 0.08 |
| 2012 | 158 | #1,448 | 0.09 |
| 2011 | 103 | #1,937 | 0.06 |
| 2010 | 108 | #1,881 | 0.06 |
| 2009 | 90 | #2,202 | 0.05 |
| 2008 | 82 | #2,376 | 0.04 |
| 2007 | 63 | #2,883 | 0.03 |
| 2006 | 62 | #2,844 | 0.03 |
| 2005 | 51 | #3,113 | 0.03 |
| 2004 | 47 | #3,250 | 0.03 |
| 2003 | 44 | #3,332 | 0.02 |
| 2002 | 38 | #3,577 | 0.02 |
| 2001 | 42 | #3,297 | 0.02 |
| 2000 | 37 | #3,570 | 0.02 |
| 1999 | 28 | #4,171 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 20 | #5,302 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 28 | #3,976 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 23 | #4,546 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 21 | #4,803 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 14 | #6,569 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 15 | #6,170 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 13 | #6,940 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 23 | #4,445 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 13 | #6,759 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 18 | #5,001 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 13 | #6,166 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 12 | #6,226 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 9 | #7,577 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 5 | #11,982 | under 0.01 |
| 1984 | 8 | #7,956 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 8 | #8,021 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 9 | #7,230 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 6 | #10,021 | under 0.01 |
| 1979 | 5 | #11,445 | under 0.01 |
| 1977 | 8 | #7,374 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,898 | under 0.01 |
| 1974 | 7 | #7,467 | under 0.01 |
| 1973 | 6 | #8,150 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,963 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,553 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Raylynn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 3,889 Americans recorded as Raylynn, 98% are girls and 2% boys. In 2025 it went to 176 girls and 6 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Raylynn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Raylynn, and how old are they?
3,860 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 3,889 Americans ever recorded as Raylynn. The median Raylynn alive today is 10 years old; half are between 5 and 16.
The 2020 Census counted 2,460 people named Raylynn (2,378 women and girls, 82 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,722 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 4 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 42 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 199 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,010 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,610 |
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 Raylynn born?
The states with the most babies named Raylynn are Texas, Ohio and Indiana, with 35% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Indiana is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 18 | #1,395 | 0.7× |
| Ohio | 17 | #617 | 1.8× |
| Indiana | 10 | #641 | 1.7× |
| North Carolina | 10 | #961 | 0.7× |
| Tennessee | 8 | #867 | 0.9× |
| Florida | 7 | #1,836 | 0.6× |
| Missouri | 7 | #791 | 1.6× |
| Oklahoma | 7 | #610 | 2.0× |
| California | 6 | #3,028 | 0.3× |
| Kentucky | 6 | #730 | 2.5× |
Where Raylynn is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Raylynn is most over-represented in Kentucky: since 1964 it was given 2.5 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 Raylynn 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 60,808 babies since 1880, Raylynn is the third most given (6.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 182 of their 3,342 babies (5.4%), again the third 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 Raylynn
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 Raylynn and names like it
- Compare Raylynn and RaelynnBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sRaylynn peaked in 2017.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Raylynn since 1910.
- The top names of 2017The year the most babies were named Raylynn.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Raylynn alive today were born 2013-2025.
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