Raynell — unisex name

What the Data Says About Raynell

The Social Security Administration has registered 716 babies named Raynell between 1925 and 2023, spanning 99 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Raynell currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 1956, when 19 babies received it in a single year. Raynell is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 438 additional births since 1955.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Raynell performed strongest in the 1960s, accumulating 129 births during that ten-year window. Across the 10 decades of recorded activity, Raynell shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Louisiana, which accounts for 12 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Alabama and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Raynell in 3 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Raynell in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 716 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.