Meaning not yet researched.
Raelyn: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 592 in 2025. Its best rank was #316 in 2017.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #316 in 2017; #502 in 2025. About 99% of babies named Raelyn in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#502 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2017, at #316.
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Raelyn: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 592 girls in 2025. Peak: #316 in 2017 · most girls in one year: 1,029 (2016).
In 2025, 592 US girls were named Raelyn, making it the 502nd most common girls’ name of the year, down 80 places from #422 in 2024. That is 144 fewer than the 736 girls named Raelyn in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #316, reached in 2017. The most girls given the name in a single year was 1,029, in 2016. For comparison, it was #342 in 2015 and #5,157 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Raelyn in 71 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1949 with 5 babies. In all, 15,864 US babies have been given the name, 99% of them girls and 0.6% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 8,058 babies named Raelyn.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 8,554 US girls were named Raelyn; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 1,029. In 2025 that was about 1 in 2,715 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Raelyn ranked highest in Tennessee in 2025, at #225 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Raelynn (34,722 babies since 1880), Raylan (7,442 babies since 1880), Raylynn (3,889 babies since 1880) and Raylen (2,422 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Raulin, Ralen and Ralon are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Rare spellings summarised here: Raulin (37), Ralen (26), Ralon (5), Railen (5).
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 Raelyn 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 17 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tennessee | 36 | #225 | #191 |
| South Carolina | 22 | #226 | #197 |
| Mississippi | 11 | #264 | #117 |
| Arkansas | 12 | #265 | #309 |
| South Dakota | 5 | #271 | — |
| Missouri | 19 | #325 | #310 |
| Kentucky | 13 | #359 | #101 |
| Georgia | 31 | #362 | #256 |
| Virginia | 22 | #373 | #409 |
| Florida | 48 | #394 | #338 |
| Idaho | 6 | #395 | — |
| Maryland | 14 | #397 | #375 |
| Kansas | 9 | #398 | #289 |
| Wisconsin | 13 | #416 | #180 |
| Washington | 17 | #427 | #638 |
| Ohio | 27 | #427 | #262 |
| Oklahoma | 10 | #429 | #352 |
| Alabama | 12 | #429 | #143 |
| Nebraska | 5 | #461 | #235 |
| Louisiana | 10 | #470 | #194 |
| Michigan | 18 | #479 | #263 |
| North Carolina | 23 | #486 | #205 |
| Massachusetts | 11 | #512 | #666 |
| Minnesota | 10 | #534 | #302 |
| Iowa | 6 | #557 | #404 |
| Indiana | 11 | #606 | #234 |
| New Jersey | 13 | #608 | #494 |
| Pennsylvania | 16 | #641 | #458 |
| Texas | 45 | #682 | #390 |
| Colorado | 8 | #691 | #403 |
| Arizona | 7 | #889 | #599 |
| California | 30 | #947 | #835 |
| Illinois | 9 | #993 | #372 |
| New York | 13 | #1,137 | #917 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 592 | #502 | 6 | #11,682 |
| 2024 | 736 | #422 | 10 | #8,180 |
| 2023 | 773 | #397 | 8 | #9,546 |
| 2022 | 821 | #382 | 11 | #7,628 |
| 2021 | 824 | #381 | 10 | #8,020 |
| 2020 | 837 | #371 | 8 | #9,350 |
| 2019 | 922 | #342 | 8 | #9,540 |
| 2018 | 993 | #327 | 8 | #9,465 |
| 2017 | 1,027 | #316 | 7 | #10,515 |
| 2016 | 1,029 | #317 | — | — |
| 2015 | 963 | #342 | — | — |
| 2014 | 784 | #410 | 6 | #11,795 |
| 2013 | 732 | #415 | 7 | #10,468 |
| 2012 | 696 | #449 | — | — |
| 2011 | 494 | #585 | — | — |
| 2010 | 382 | #732 | — | — |
| 2009 | 289 | #927 | — | — |
| 2008 | 250 | #1,047 | — | — |
| 2007 | 232 | #1,120 | — | — |
| 2006 | 195 | #1,237 | — | — |
| 2005 | 185 | #1,234 | — | — |
| 2004 | 142 | #1,447 | 7 | #9,695 |
| 2003 | 149 | #1,363 | — | — |
| 2002 | 132 | #1,450 | — | — |
| 2001 | 112 | #1,640 | — | — |
| 2000 | 108 | #1,643 | — | — |
| 1999 | 100 | #1,663 | — | — |
| 1998 | 90 | #1,758 | — | — |
| 1997 | 100 | #1,603 | — | — |
| 1996 | 73 | #1,959 | — | — |
| 1995 | 66 | #2,075 | — | — |
| 1994 | 70 | #2,019 | — | — |
| 1993 | 59 | #2,233 | — | — |
| 1992 | 67 | #2,050 | — | — |
| 1991 | 55 | #2,341 | — | — |
| 1990 | 41 | #2,839 | — | — |
| 1989 | 36 | #3,028 | — | — |
| 1988 | 43 | #2,519 | — | — |
| 1987 | 33 | #2,958 | — | — |
| 1986 | 25 | #3,524 | — | — |
| 1985 | 25 | #3,487 | — | — |
| 1984 | 22 | #3,688 | — | — |
| 1983 | 28 | #3,045 | — | — |
| 1982 | 34 | #2,749 | — | — |
| 1981 | 25 | #3,406 | — | — |
| 1980 | 33 | #2,785 | — | — |
| 1979 | 18 | #4,176 | — | — |
| 1978 | 23 | #3,358 | — | — |
| 1977 | 11 | #5,785 | — | — |
| 1976 | 15 | #4,289 | — | — |
| 1975 | 21 | #3,370 | — | — |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,694 | — | — |
| 1973 | 19 | #3,438 | — | — |
| 1972 | 14 | #4,244 | — | — |
| 1971 | 22 | #3,129 | — | — |
| 1970 | 11 | #4,989 | — | — |
| 1969 | 18 | #3,290 | — | — |
| 1968 | 22 | #2,771 | — | — |
| 1967 | 18 | #3,042 | — | — |
| 1966 | 10 | #4,409 | — | — |
| 1965 | 10 | #4,433 | — | — |
| 1964 | 15 | #3,476 | — | — |
| 1963 | 10 | #4,469 | — | — |
| 1962 | 14 | #3,556 | — | — |
| 1961 | 6 | #6,383 | — | — |
| 1960 | 12 | #3,869 | — | — |
| 1959 | 12 | #3,771 | — | — |
| 1958 | 17 | #2,942 | — | — |
| 1957 | 7 | #5,257 | — | — |
| 1950 | 6 | #5,157 | — | — |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,865 | — | — |
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).