Meaning not yet researched.
Raeleigh: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 74 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,551 in 2021.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,551 in 2021; #2,430 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Raeleigh in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,430 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2021, at #1,551.
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Raeleigh: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 74 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,551 in 2021 · most girls in one year: 138 (2017).
In 2025, 74 US girls were named Raeleigh, making it the 2,430th most common girls’ name of the year, down 151 places from #2,279 in 2024. That is 8 fewer than the 82 girls named Raeleigh in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,551, reached in 2021. The most girls given the name in a single year was 138, in 2017. For comparison, it was #1,663 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Raeleigh in 32 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1994 with 5 babies. In all, 2,371 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,185 babies named Raeleigh.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,122 US girls were named Raeleigh; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 138. In 2025 that was about 1 in 21,720 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Raeleigh ranked highest in Mississippi in 2025, at #506 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Raleigh (12,336 babies since 1880) and Rayleigh (3,098 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Raeliegh and Raeleah are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Raeliegh (13), Raeleah (13).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Raeleigh in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 47 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | 6 | #506 | #648 |
| Tennessee | 6 | #1,098 | #913 |
| Ohio | 8 | #1,111 | — |
| Texas | 9 | #2,351 | #1,524 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 74 | #2,430 | — | — |
| 2024 | 82 | #2,279 | — | — |
| 2023 | 117 | #1,758 | — | — |
| 2022 | 104 | #1,927 | — | — |
| 2021 | 136 | #1,551 | — | — |
| 2020 | 99 | #1,946 | — | — |
| 2019 | 112 | #1,828 | — | — |
| 2018 | 129 | #1,646 | — | — |
| 2017 | 138 | #1,589 | — | — |
| 2016 | 131 | #1,654 | — | — |
| 2015 | 129 | #1,663 | — | — |
| 2014 | 130 | #1,649 | — | — |
| 2013 | 108 | #1,876 | — | — |
| 2012 | 104 | #1,915 | — | — |
| 2011 | 106 | #1,894 | — | — |
| 2010 | 98 | #2,040 | — | — |
| 2009 | 95 | #2,133 | — | — |
| 2008 | 78 | #2,457 | — | — |
| 2007 | 70 | #2,636 | — | — |
| 2006 | 50 | #3,301 | — | — |
| 2005 | 42 | #3,571 | — | — |
| 2004 | 40 | #3,679 | — | — |
| 2003 | 44 | #3,333 | — | — |
| 2002 | 36 | #3,711 | — | — |
| 2001 | 29 | #4,293 | — | — |
| 2000 | 23 | #5,113 | — | — |
| 1999 | 15 | #6,764 | — | — |
| 1998 | 15 | #6,625 | — | — |
| 1997 | 16 | #6,099 | — | — |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,668 | — | — |
| 1995 | 6 | #12,967 | — | — |
| 1994 | 5 | #15,137 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).