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Raelynn: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 2,326 in 2025. Its best rank was #99 in 2022.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #99 in 2022; #116 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Raelynn in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#116 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2022, at #99.
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Raelynn: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 2,326 girls in 2025. Peak: #99 in 2022 · most girls in one year: 2,726 (2022).
In 2025, 2,326 US girls were named Raelynn, making it the 116th most common girls’ name of the year, down 3 places from #113 in 2024. That is 96 fewer than the 2,422 girls named Raelynn in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #99, reached in 2022. That year also had the most girls given the name: 2,726. For comparison, it was #179 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Raelynn in 75 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1947 with 5 babies. In all, 34,722 US babies have been given the name, 99.8% of them girls and 0.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 15,820 babies named Raelynn.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 24,818 US girls were named Raelynn; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 2,726. In 2025 that was about 1 in 691 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Raelynn ranked highest in Mississippi in 2025, at #27 for girls there. It was in the top 100 in 21 states (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Raelyn (15,864 babies since 1880), Raylynn (3,889 babies since 1880), Raylyn (1,239 babies since 1880) and Railynn (1,008 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Raelene, Raelynne and Raelin are summarised on this page.
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Rare spellings summarised here: Raelene (2,451), Raelynne (812), Raelin (797), Raeleen (559), Ralynn (272), Raylinn (199), Ralyn (175), Rayelynn (163), Raylynne (137), Raelan (127), Raelyne (94), Raelen (72), and more.
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 Raelynn 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 2 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | 45 | #27 | #67 |
| West Virginia | 33 | #28 | #69 |
| Alabama | 72 | #41 | #88 |
| Vermont | 9 | #47 | — |
| Kentucky | 63 | #54 | #56 |
| Alaska | 10 | #57 | — |
| Missouri | 79 | #57 | #125 |
| Nebraska | 28 | #60 | #150 |
| Tennessee | 101 | #62 | #104 |
| Arkansas | 39 | #64 | #91 |
| Iowa | 41 | #66 | #146 |
| Indiana | 83 | #67 | #71 |
| Georgia | 117 | #67 | #160 |
| Ohio | 119 | #74 | #104 |
| South Carolina | 49 | #83 | #116 |
| Michigan | 87 | #84 | #128 |
| North Carolina | 111 | #86 | #192 |
| Delaware | 9 | #92 | #178 |
| Maine | 11 | #94 | #140 |
| Virginia | 75 | #95 | #209 |
| Pennsylvania | 100 | #95 | #187 |
| Louisiana | 37 | #107 | #197 |
| Idaho | 19 | #111 | #239 |
| Wisconsin | 44 | #112 | #170 |
| South Dakota | 10 | #114 | #106 |
| Florida | 138 | #132 | #165 |
| North Dakota | 8 | #134 | #212 |
| Illinois | 72 | #137 | #254 |
| District of Columbia | 6 | #140 | — |
| Connecticut | 22 | #142 | #436 |
| Kansas | 23 | #144 | #231 |
| Maryland | 33 | #152 | #132 |
| Washington | 47 | #152 | #249 |
| Oklahoma | 24 | #165 | #202 |
| Rhode Island | 6 | #172 | — |
| Texas | 190 | #175 | #203 |
| New Mexico | 9 | #177 | #182 |
| Utah | 26 | #179 | #256 |
| Nevada | 13 | #210 | #436 |
| Oregon | 17 | #218 | #97 |
| New Hampshire | 6 | #228 | #220 |
| Minnesota | 25 | #230 | #204 |
| Colorado | 28 | #233 | #223 |
| Massachusetts | 24 | #242 | #367 |
| New York | 69 | #246 | #393 |
| Montana | 5 | #247 | — |
| Arizona | 29 | #247 | #206 |
| New Jersey | 32 | #260 | #576 |
| California | 78 | #431 | #456 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 2,326 | #116 | — | — |
| 2024 | 2,422 | #113 | 6 | #12,012 |
| 2023 | 2,415 | #112 | 8 | #9,547 |
| 2022 | 2,726 | #99 | 8 | #9,634 |
| 2021 | 2,683 | #103 | 5 | #13,617 |
| 2020 | 2,611 | #104 | 5 | #13,587 |
| 2019 | 2,573 | #113 | 6 | #11,808 |
| 2018 | 2,617 | #116 | — | — |
| 2017 | 2,459 | #124 | — | — |
| 2016 | 1,986 | #158 | — | — |
| 2015 | 1,807 | #179 | 6 | #11,758 |
| 2014 | 1,238 | #266 | — | — |
| 2013 | 1,121 | #283 | 7 | #10,469 |
| 2012 | 932 | #337 | — | — |
| 2011 | 599 | #495 | — | — |
| 2010 | 469 | #628 | — | — |
| 2009 | 330 | #847 | — | — |
| 2008 | 303 | #909 | — | — |
| 2007 | 249 | #1,056 | — | — |
| 2006 | 174 | #1,341 | — | — |
| 2005 | 152 | #1,414 | — | — |
| 2004 | 147 | #1,421 | — | — |
| 2003 | 130 | #1,507 | — | — |
| 2002 | 127 | #1,496 | — | — |
| 2001 | 126 | #1,496 | — | — |
| 2000 | 109 | #1,628 | — | — |
| 1999 | 115 | #1,499 | — | — |
| 1998 | 104 | #1,584 | — | — |
| 1997 | 79 | #1,876 | — | — |
| 1996 | 80 | #1,836 | — | — |
| 1995 | 78 | #1,834 | — | — |
| 1994 | 77 | #1,854 | — | — |
| 1993 | 67 | #2,061 | — | — |
| 1992 | 69 | #2,002 | — | — |
| 1991 | 69 | #2,009 | — | — |
| 1990 | 47 | #2,558 | — | — |
| 1989 | 66 | #1,957 | — | — |
| 1988 | 55 | #2,121 | — | — |
| 1987 | 46 | #2,326 | — | — |
| 1986 | 41 | #2,456 | — | — |
| 1985 | 50 | #2,124 | — | — |
| 1984 | 38 | #2,504 | — | — |
| 1983 | 47 | #2,121 | — | — |
| 1982 | 44 | #2,274 | — | — |
| 1981 | 40 | #2,437 | — | — |
| 1980 | 38 | #2,522 | — | — |
| 1979 | 34 | #2,657 | — | — |
| 1978 | 20 | #3,732 | — | — |
| 1977 | 25 | #3,150 | — | — |
| 1976 | 28 | #2,779 | — | — |
| 1975 | 22 | #3,230 | — | — |
| 1974 | 17 | #3,823 | — | — |
| 1973 | 19 | #3,439 | — | — |
| 1972 | 25 | #2,807 | — | — |
| 1971 | 26 | #2,784 | — | — |
| 1970 | 24 | #2,914 | — | — |
| 1969 | 34 | #2,197 | — | — |
| 1968 | 28 | #2,344 | — | — |
| 1967 | 26 | #2,419 | — | — |
| 1966 | 21 | #2,727 | — | — |
| 1965 | 32 | #2,103 | — | — |
| 1964 | 34 | #2,065 | — | — |
| 1963 | 26 | #2,408 | — | — |
| 1962 | 21 | #2,720 | — | — |
| 1961 | 26 | #2,398 | — | — |
| 1960 | 21 | #2,705 | — | — |
| 1959 | 12 | #3,772 | — | — |
| 1958 | 14 | #3,345 | — | — |
| 1957 | 10 | #4,132 | — | — |
| 1956 | 9 | #4,392 | — | — |
| 1955 | 15 | #3,064 | — | — |
| 1954 | 5 | #6,419 | — | — |
| 1953 | 5 | #6,328 | — | — |
| 1952 | 6 | #5,420 | — | — |
| 1947 | 5 | #5,935 | — | — |
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).