Raynell
Raynell was last recorded in 2023, when 6 babies were given it; 1,155 Americans have been recorded with it between 1925 and 2023 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Raynell by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Raynell?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,791, in 2023; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
30 babies in 1981, the peak
Raynell peaked in 1981, when 30 babies were given it (16 girls, #4,679 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 6 | #14,791 | under 5 | |
| 2018 | under 5 | 8 | #9,474 | |
| 2017 | under 5 | 6 | #11,884 | |
| 2014 | under 5 | 8 | #9,419 | |
| 2013 | under 5 | 9 | #8,611 | |
| 2011 | under 5 | 11 | #7,384 | |
| 2009 | under 5 | 12 | #7,137 | |
| 2008 | under 5 | 10 | #8,151 | |
| 2007 | under 5 | 7 | #10,629 | |
| 2006 | under 5 | 10 | #7,868 |
Every recorded year (80)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | under 5 | 12 | #6,427 | |
| 2003 | under 5 | 10 | #7,120 | |
| 2002 | 9 | #10,886 | under 5 | |
| 2001 | under 5 | 5 | #11,900 | |
| 2000 | 7 | #12,827 | 14 | #5,248 |
| 1999 | 5 | #16,275 | 7 | #8,507 |
| 1998 | 5 | #15,994 | under 5 | |
| 1997 | 5 | #15,547 | 7 | #7,928 |
| 1996 | 9 | #9,388 | 5 | #10,193 |
| 1995 | 7 | #11,465 | 7 | #7,610 |
| 1994 | 6 | #13,017 | 9 | #6,233 |
| 1993 | 9 | #9,331 | 7 | #7,434 |
| 1992 | 13 | #6,941 | 8 | #6,554 |
| 1991 | 8 | #10,011 | 6 | #8,013 |
| 1990 | 9 | #9,035 | 13 | #4,349 |
| 1989 | 16 | #5,480 | 13 | #4,216 |
| 1988 | 16 | #5,246 | 13 | #3,852 |
| 1987 | 11 | #6,659 | under 5 | |
| 1986 | 13 | #5,674 | 11 | #4,063 |
| 1985 | 12 | #5,949 | 11 | #3,984 |
| 1984 | 11 | #6,172 | 12 | #3,629 |
| 1983 | 14 | #5,075 | under 5 | |
| 1982 | 9 | #7,320 | 7 | #5,482 |
| 1981 | 16 | #4,679 | 14 | #3,180 |
| 1980 | 11 | #6,212 | 13 | #3,389 |
| 1979 | 8 | #7,845 | 12 | #3,516 |
| 1978 | 9 | #6,786 | 5 | #6,546 |
| 1977 | 17 | #4,190 | 7 | #4,999 |
| 1976 | 11 | #5,487 | 18 | #2,485 |
| 1974 | 14 | #4,393 | 8 | #4,096 |
| 1973 | 11 | #5,114 | 10 | #3,397 |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,983 | 9 | #3,546 |
| 1971 | 10 | #5,421 | 6 | #4,795 |
| 1970 | 10 | #5,314 | 6 | #4,608 |
| 1969 | 11 | #4,654 | under 5 | |
| 1968 | 10 | #4,699 | 9 | #3,050 |
| 1967 | 9 | #4,885 | under 5 | |
| 1966 | 18 | #3,014 | 6 | #3,842 |
| 1965 | 12 | #3,904 | 7 | #3,479 |
| 1964 | 15 | #3,478 | 9 | #3,007 |
| 1963 | 15 | #3,432 | under 5 | |
| 1962 | 10 | #4,470 | 7 | #3,560 |
| 1961 | 12 | #3,953 | 6 | #3,966 |
| 1960 | 17 | #3,075 | 5 | #4,481 |
| 1959 | 10 | #4,234 | 6 | #3,899 |
| 1958 | 12 | #3,697 | 7 | #3,502 |
| 1957 | 12 | #3,635 | 6 | #3,888 |
| 1956 | 19 | #2,700 | under 5 | |
| 1955 | 12 | #3,530 | 5 | #4,272 |
| 1954 | 9 | #4,204 | under 5 | |
| 1953 | 11 | #3,632 | under 5 | |
| 1952 | 10 | #3,734 | under 5 | |
| 1951 | 9 | #3,938 | under 5 | |
| 1950 | 10 | #3,614 | under 5 | |
| 1949 | 12 | #3,137 | under 5 | |
| 1948 | 18 | #2,397 | under 5 | |
| 1947 | 12 | #3,192 | under 5 | |
| 1946 | 5 | #5,543 | under 5 | |
| 1945 | 9 | #3,334 | under 5 | |
| 1944 | 13 | #2,595 | under 5 | |
| 1943 | 6 | #4,586 | under 5 | |
| 1942 | 7 | #4,033 | under 5 | |
| 1940 | 12 | #2,542 | under 5 | |
| 1938 | 7 | #3,776 | under 5 | |
| 1937 | 6 | #4,169 | under 5 | |
| 1934 | 12 | #2,539 | under 5 | |
| 1933 | 7 | #3,685 | under 5 | |
| 1931 | 8 | #3,431 | under 5 | |
| 1930 | 9 | #3,277 | under 5 | |
| 1925 | 7 | #4,352 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Raynell a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,155 Americans recorded as Raynell, 62% are girls and 38% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Raynell: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Raynell, and how old are they?
An estimated 982 Americans named Raynell and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (85% of everyone recorded); the median is 46 years old and half are between 34 and 62. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 884 people named Raynell (538 women and girls, 346 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,024 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% 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.
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 3 names spelled alike, given to 1,764 babies since 1880, Raynell is the most given (65% of them).
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 Raynell
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 Raynell and names like it
- Compare Raynell and RanellBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sRaynell peaked in 1981.
- Louisiana’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Raynell since 1910.
- The top names of 1981The year the most babies were named Raynell.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Raynell alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with RMost given first.