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Rayleigh: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 149 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,236 in 2018.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,236 in 2018; #1,451 in 2025. About 90% of babies named Rayleigh in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,451 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2018, at #1,236.
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Rayleigh: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 149 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,236 in 2018 · most girls in one year: 189 (2018).
In 2025, 149 US girls were named Rayleigh, making it the 1,451st most common girls’ name of the year, down 6 places from #1,445 in 2024. That is 4 fewer than the 153 girls named Rayleigh in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,236, reached in 2018. That year also had the most girls given the name: 189. For comparison, it was #1,476 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Rayleigh in 31 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1995 with 7 babies. In all, 3,098 US babies have been given the name, 97% of them girls and 3.2% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,587 babies named Rayleigh.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,681 US girls were named Rayleigh; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 189. In 2025 that was about 1 in 10,787 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Rayleigh ranked highest in Kentucky in 2025, at #361 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Raleigh (12,336 babies since 1880) and Raeleigh (2,371 babies since 1880).
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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 Rayleigh 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 40 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kentucky | 13 | #361 | #617 |
| Arkansas | 8 | #420 | #440 |
| Alabama | 9 | #568 | #600 |
| Tennessee | 10 | #742 | #574 |
| South Carolina | 6 | #753 | #738 |
| Georgia | 11 | #902 | #1,039 |
| Indiana | 5 | #1,171 | — |
| Ohio | 6 | #1,406 | — |
| Texas | 14 | #1,694 | #1,174 |
| Florida | 7 | #1,835 | #1,797 |
| California | 6 | #3,027 | #2,947 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 149 | #1,451 | 16 | #5,786 |
| 2024 | 153 | #1,445 | 16 | #5,842 |
| 2023 | 166 | #1,360 | 13 | #6,810 |
| 2022 | 184 | #1,290 | 17 | #5,585 |
| 2021 | 131 | #1,607 | 10 | #8,030 |
| 2020 | 177 | #1,269 | 6 | #11,687 |
| 2019 | 187 | #1,250 | 10 | #8,078 |
| 2018 | 189 | #1,236 | 5 | #13,662 |
| 2017 | 187 | #1,265 | — | — |
| 2016 | 158 | #1,464 | 5 | #13,741 |
| 2015 | 156 | #1,476 | — | — |
| 2014 | 174 | #1,350 | — | — |
| 2013 | 129 | #1,657 | — | — |
| 2012 | 128 | #1,669 | — | — |
| 2011 | 134 | #1,618 | — | — |
| 2010 | 125 | #1,693 | — | — |
| 2009 | 81 | #2,391 | — | — |
| 2008 | 84 | #2,332 | — | — |
| 2007 | 62 | #2,920 | — | — |
| 2006 | 55 | #3,080 | — | — |
| 2005 | 33 | #4,248 | — | — |
| 2004 | 38 | #3,801 | — | — |
| 2003 | 30 | #4,393 | — | — |
| 2002 | 17 | #6,631 | — | — |
| 2001 | 16 | #6,903 | — | — |
| 2000 | 14 | #7,488 | — | — |
| 1999 | 12 | #8,107 | — | — |
| 1998 | 10 | #9,119 | — | — |
| 1997 | 8 | #10,565 | — | — |
| 1996 | 6 | #13,072 | — | — |
| 1995 | 7 | #11,467 | — | — |
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).