Meaning not yet researched.
Railynn: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 49 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,294 in 2018.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,294 in 2018; #3,241 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Railynn in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,241 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2018, at #2,294.
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Railynn: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 49 girls in 2025. Peak: #2,294 in 2018 · most girls in one year: 80 (2018).
In 2025, 49 US girls were named Railynn, making it the 3,241st most common girls’ name of the year, up 203 places from #3,444 in 2024. That is 3 more than the 46 girls named Railynn in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,294, reached in 2018. That year also had the most girls given the name: 80. For comparison, it was #2,839 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Railynn in 24 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2001 with 6 babies. In all, 1,008 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 569 babies named Railynn.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 625 US girls were named Railynn; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 80. In 2025 that was about 1 in 32,801 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), Raylynn (3,889 babies since 1880) and Raylyn (1,239 babies since 1880).
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.
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 Railynn 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 | 49 | #3,241 | — | — |
| 2024 | 46 | #3,444 | — | — |
| 2023 | 64 | #2,727 | — | — |
| 2022 | 71 | #2,524 | — | — |
| 2021 | 65 | #2,665 | — | — |
| 2020 | 56 | #2,927 | — | — |
| 2019 | 65 | #2,673 | — | — |
| 2018 | 80 | #2,294 | — | — |
| 2017 | 68 | #2,592 | — | — |
| 2016 | 61 | #2,820 | — | — |
| 2015 | 62 | #2,839 | — | — |
| 2014 | 54 | #3,104 | — | — |
| 2013 | 64 | #2,721 | — | — |
| 2012 | 55 | #3,081 | — | — |
| 2011 | 28 | #5,029 | — | — |
| 2010 | 32 | #4,579 | — | — |
| 2009 | 16 | #7,983 | — | — |
| 2008 | 17 | #7,666 | — | — |
| 2007 | 13 | #9,419 | — | — |
| 2006 | 9 | #12,194 | — | — |
| 2005 | 11 | #9,972 | — | — |
| 2004 | 9 | #11,410 | — | — |
| 2003 | 7 | #13,490 | — | — |
| 2001 | 6 | #14,896 | — | — |
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).