Meaning not yet researched.
Raylee: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 199 in 2025. Its best rank was #879 in 2017.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #879 in 2017; #1,168 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Raylee in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,168 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2017, at #879.
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Raylee: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 199 girls in 2025. Peak: #879 in 2017 · most girls in one year: 312 (2017).
In 2025, 199 US girls were named Raylee, making it the 1,168th most common girls’ name of the year, up 90 places from #1,258 in 2024. That is 13 more than the 186 girls named Raylee in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #879, reached in 2017. That year also had the most girls given the name: 312. For comparison, it was #1,023 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Raylee in 36 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1988 with 5 babies. In all, 5,131 US babies have been given the name, 98% of them girls and 1.8% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 2,571 babies named Raylee.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,311 US girls were named Raylee; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 312. In 2025 that was about 1 in 8,077 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Raylee ranked highest in Kentucky in 2025, at #360 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Raelee (1,914 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Railey, Raylie and Raley are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Rare spellings summarised here: Railey (820), Raylie (398), Raley (383), Railee (355), Raeley (302), Rayley (202), Raylea (194), Rayli (133), Raelie (122), Raylei (115), Raelea (77), Raelei (30), 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 Raylee 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 36 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kentucky | 13 | #360 | #499 |
| Oklahoma | 10 | #430 | #247 |
| Mississippi | 6 | #507 | #360 |
| Alabama | 8 | #623 | #306 |
| Missouri | 9 | #627 | #923 |
| Tennessee | 11 | #695 | #659 |
| Louisiana | 6 | #758 | #432 |
| Colorado | 6 | #881 | — |
| Texas | 30 | #978 | #956 |
| Arizona | 6 | #1,011 | — |
| Georgia | 9 | #1,049 | #878 |
| Virginia | 6 | #1,151 | #1,183 |
| North Carolina | 7 | #1,249 | #966 |
| Florida | 6 | #2,092 | #2,028 |
| California | 8 | #2,445 | #2,674 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 199 | #1,168 | — | — |
| 2024 | 186 | #1,258 | — | — |
| 2023 | 195 | #1,222 | — | — |
| 2022 | 219 | #1,127 | — | — |
| 2021 | 234 | #1,073 | — | — |
| 2020 | 224 | #1,092 | 6 | #11,686 |
| 2019 | 230 | #1,087 | — | — |
| 2018 | 254 | #1,023 | — | — |
| 2017 | 312 | #879 | 6 | #11,887 |
| 2016 | 258 | #1,029 | 6 | #11,823 |
| 2015 | 262 | #1,023 | 6 | #11,776 |
| 2014 | 252 | #1,031 | — | — |
| 2013 | 240 | #1,038 | 5 | #13,626 |
| 2012 | 273 | #938 | 7 | #10,512 |
| 2011 | 224 | #1,102 | 6 | #11,939 |
| 2010 | 230 | #1,088 | — | — |
| 2009 | 223 | #1,140 | 6 | #12,145 |
| 2008 | 153 | #1,526 | 5 | #14,145 |
| 2007 | 155 | #1,501 | 7 | #10,634 |
| 2006 | 123 | #1,706 | 9 | #8,580 |
| 2005 | 98 | #1,961 | 7 | #9,895 |
| 2004 | 79 | #2,238 | — | — |
| 2003 | 79 | #2,200 | — | — |
| 2002 | 68 | #2,372 | — | — |
| 2001 | 51 | #2,869 | — | — |
| 2000 | 50 | #2,890 | 6 | #10,052 |
| 1999 | 34 | #3,625 | — | — |
| 1998 | 34 | #3,552 | — | — |
| 1997 | 24 | #4,482 | 5 | #10,467 |
| 1996 | 13 | #7,042 | — | — |
| 1995 | 24 | #4,320 | — | — |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,628 | — | — |
| 1993 | 5 | #15,197 | 7 | #7,437 |
| 1991 | 6 | #12,700 | — | — |
| 1990 | 11 | #7,730 | — | — |
| 1988 | 5 | #13,340 | — | — |
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).