Meaning not yet researched.
Raylene: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 16 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,218 in 1949.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,218 in 1949; #7,069 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Raylene in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#7,069 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1949, at #1,218.
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Raylene: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 16 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,218 in 1949 · most girls in one year: 79 (1961).
In 2025, 16 US girls were named Raylene, making it the 7,069th most common girls’ name of the year, down 475 places from #6,594 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 18 girls named Raylene in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,218, reached in 1949. The most girls given the name in a single year was 79, in 1961. For comparison, it was #4,379 in 2015 and #1,270 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Raylene in 100 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1926 with 6 babies. In all, 4,065 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 600 babies named Raylene.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 264 US girls were named Raylene; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 40. In 2025 that was about 1 in 100,454 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Raylan (7,442 babies since 1880), Raylynn (3,889 babies since 1880), Raylen (2,422 babies since 1880) and Raylin (1,922 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Ralene 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: Ralene (252).
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 Raylene 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 | 16 | #7,069 | — | — |
| 2024 | 18 | #6,594 | — | — |
| 2023 | 33 | #4,346 | — | — |
| 2022 | 29 | #4,769 | — | — |
| 2021 | 28 | #4,812 | — | — |
| 2020 | 21 | #5,812 | — | — |
| 2019 | 18 | #6,647 | — | — |
| 2018 | 33 | #4,327 | — | — |
| 2017 | 40 | #3,826 | — | — |
| 2016 | 28 | #4,958 | — | — |
| 2015 | 33 | #4,379 | — | — |
| 2014 | 44 | #3,575 | — | — |
| 2013 | 36 | #4,139 | — | — |
| 2012 | 61 | #2,859 | — | — |
| 2011 | 35 | #4,222 | — | — |
| 2010 | 53 | #3,151 | — | — |
| 2009 | 58 | #2,992 | — | — |
| 2008 | 54 | #3,151 | — | — |
| 2007 | 43 | #3,771 | — | — |
| 2006 | 61 | #2,880 | — | — |
| 2005 | 50 | #3,162 | — | — |
| 2004 | 57 | #2,837 | — | — |
| 2003 | 62 | #2,601 | — | — |
| 2002 | 69 | #2,347 | — | — |
| 2001 | 66 | #2,404 | — | — |
| 2000 | 71 | #2,232 | — | — |
| 1999 | 53 | #2,667 | — | — |
| 1998 | 57 | #2,451 | — | — |
| 1997 | 52 | #2,504 | — | — |
| 1996 | 59 | #2,275 | — | — |
| 1995 | 54 | #2,413 | — | — |
| 1994 | 52 | #2,450 | — | — |
| 1993 | 53 | #2,405 | — | — |
| 1992 | 41 | #2,910 | — | — |
| 1991 | 40 | #2,920 | — | — |
| 1990 | 35 | #3,208 | — | — |
| 1989 | 51 | #2,331 | — | — |
| 1988 | 53 | #2,180 | — | — |
| 1987 | 35 | #2,831 | — | — |
| 1986 | 31 | #3,031 | — | — |
| 1985 | 49 | #2,162 | — | — |
| 1984 | 28 | #3,123 | — | — |
| 1983 | 34 | #2,638 | — | — |
| 1982 | 39 | #2,481 | — | — |
| 1981 | 41 | #2,398 | — | — |
| 1980 | 26 | #3,292 | — | — |
| 1979 | 35 | #2,614 | — | — |
| 1978 | 31 | #2,726 | — | — |
| 1977 | 33 | #2,600 | — | — |
| 1976 | 44 | #2,020 | — | — |
| 1975 | 37 | #2,267 | — | — |
| 1974 | 49 | #1,814 | — | — |
| 1973 | 30 | #2,491 | — | — |
| 1972 | 45 | #1,879 | — | — |
| 1971 | 36 | #2,233 | — | — |
| 1970 | 45 | #1,928 | — | — |
| 1969 | 50 | #1,720 | — | — |
| 1968 | 44 | #1,805 | — | — |
| 1967 | 42 | #1,810 | — | — |
| 1966 | 59 | #1,442 | — | — |
| 1965 | 69 | #1,318 | — | — |
| 1964 | 61 | #1,458 | — | — |
| 1963 | 62 | #1,424 | — | — |
| 1962 | 72 | #1,311 | — | — |
| 1961 | 79 | #1,250 | — | — |
| 1960 | 62 | #1,400 | — | — |
| 1959 | 66 | #1,322 | — | — |
| 1958 | 61 | #1,362 | — | — |
| 1957 | 61 | #1,365 | — | — |
| 1956 | 57 | #1,394 | — | — |
| 1955 | 55 | #1,360 | — | — |
| 1954 | 50 | #1,434 | — | — |
| 1953 | 52 | #1,356 | — | — |
| 1952 | 57 | #1,267 | — | — |
| 1951 | 48 | #1,354 | — | — |
| 1950 | 53 | #1,270 | — | — |
| 1949 | 56 | #1,218 | — | — |
| 1948 | 42 | #1,433 | — | — |
| 1947 | 50 | #1,298 | — | — |
| 1946 | 39 | #1,414 | — | — |
| 1945 | 28 | #1,568 | — | — |
| 1944 | 33 | #1,423 | — | — |
| 1943 | 29 | #1,582 | — | — |
| 1942 | 20 | #1,967 | — | — |
| 1941 | 38 | #1,236 | — | — |
| 1940 | 26 | #1,544 | — | — |
| 1939 | 18 | #1,941 | — | — |
| 1938 | 22 | #1,693 | — | — |
| 1937 | 17 | #1,983 | — | — |
| 1936 | 9 | #3,053 | — | — |
| 1935 | 16 | #2,082 | — | — |
| 1934 | 5 | #4,835 | — | — |
| 1933 | 13 | #2,377 | — | — |
| 1932 | 9 | #3,229 | — | — |
| 1931 | 7 | #3,783 | — | — |
| 1930 | 13 | #2,536 | — | — |
| 1929 | 8 | #3,627 | — | — |
| 1928 | 8 | #3,689 | — | — |
| 1927 | 8 | #3,807 | — | — |
| 1926 | 6 | #4,733 | — | — |
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).