Meaning not yet researched.
Railyn: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 29 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,720 in 2013.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,720 in 2013; #4,728 in 2025. About 81% of babies named Railyn in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,728 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2013, at #2,720.
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Railyn: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 29 girls in 2025. Peak: #2,720 in 2013 · most girls in one year: 64 (2016).
In 2025, 29 US girls were named Railyn, making it the 4,728th most common girls’ name of the year, up 135 places from #4,863 in 2024. That is 1 more than the 28 girls named Railyn in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,720, reached in 2013. The most girls given the name in a single year was 64, in 2016. For comparison, it was #3,380 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 7 US boys were named Railyn, making it the 10,432nd most common boys’ name of the year. Its best rank for boys was #10,432, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 7. For comparison, it was unranked (under five boys) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Railyn in 29 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1994 with 6 babies. In all, 909 US babies have been given the name, 99% of them girls and 1.4% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 503 babies named Railyn.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 424 US girls were named Railyn; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 64. In 2025 that was about 1 in 55,423 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Raelynn (34,722 babies since 1880), Raelyn (15,864 babies since 1880), Raylan (7,442 babies since 1880) and Raylynn (3,889 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Raighlyn 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: Raighlyn (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 Railyn in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 29 | #4,728 | 7 | #10,432 |
| 2024 | 28 | #4,863 | — | — |
| 2023 | 38 | #3,965 | — | — |
| 2022 | 30 | #4,653 | — | — |
| 2021 | 45 | #3,477 | 6 | #11,812 |
| 2020 | 46 | #3,381 | — | — |
| 2019 | 46 | #3,436 | — | — |
| 2018 | 45 | #3,479 | — | — |
| 2017 | 53 | #3,085 | — | — |
| 2016 | 64 | #2,731 | — | — |
| 2015 | 48 | #3,380 | — | — |
| 2014 | 53 | #3,132 | — | — |
| 2013 | 64 | #2,720 | — | — |
| 2012 | 62 | #2,828 | — | — |
| 2011 | 46 | #3,488 | — | — |
| 2010 | 22 | #6,134 | — | — |
| 2009 | 24 | #5,851 | — | — |
| 2008 | 23 | #6,097 | — | — |
| 2007 | 19 | #7,032 | — | — |
| 2006 | 14 | #8,614 | — | — |
| 2005 | 11 | #9,971 | — | — |
| 2004 | 14 | #8,133 | — | — |
| 2003 | 11 | #9,549 | — | — |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,932 | — | — |
| 2001 | 19 | #6,017 | — | — |
| 2000 | 13 | #7,935 | — | — |
| 1999 | 9 | #10,129 | — | — |
| 1997 | 6 | #13,322 | — | — |
| 1994 | 6 | #13,012 | — | — |
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).