Meaning not yet researched.
Raylyn: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 56 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,797 in 2012.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,797 in 2012; #2,988 in 2025. About 90% of babies named Raylyn in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,988 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2012, at #2,797.
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Raylyn: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 56 girls in 2025. Peak: #2,797 in 2012 · most girls in one year: 63 (2012).
In 2025, 56 US girls were named Raylyn, making it the 2,988th most common girls’ name of the year, up 1,032 places from #4,020 in 2024. That is 19 more than the 37 girls named Raylyn in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,797, reached in 2012. That year also had the most girls given the name: 63. For comparison, it was #3,119 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Raylyn in 47 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1963 with 5 babies. In all, 1,239 US babies have been given the name, 93% of them girls and 7.3% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 577 babies named Raylyn.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 475 US girls were named Raylyn; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 58. In 2025 that was about 1 in 28,701 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 Raylene (4,065 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 Raylyn 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 | 56 | #2,988 | 6 | #11,694 |
| 2024 | 37 | #4,020 | — | — |
| 2023 | 47 | #3,415 | — | — |
| 2022 | 58 | #2,922 | — | — |
| 2021 | 37 | #3,996 | 6 | #11,821 |
| 2020 | 40 | #3,727 | 7 | #10,359 |
| 2019 | 45 | #3,493 | — | — |
| 2018 | 54 | #3,041 | 9 | #8,676 |
| 2017 | 55 | #3,007 | 9 | #8,671 |
| 2016 | 46 | #3,456 | 6 | #11,824 |
| 2015 | 54 | #3,119 | 9 | #8,573 |
| 2014 | 51 | #3,219 | 10 | #7,999 |
| 2013 | 60 | #2,865 | 10 | #7,967 |
| 2012 | 63 | #2,797 | — | — |
| 2011 | 49 | #3,343 | 5 | #13,873 |
| 2010 | 37 | #4,094 | 5 | #13,801 |
| 2009 | 29 | #5,061 | — | — |
| 2008 | 24 | #5,915 | — | — |
| 2007 | 33 | #4,545 | 8 | #9,565 |
| 2006 | 19 | #6,783 | — | — |
| 2005 | 18 | #6,755 | — | — |
| 2004 | 14 | #8,135 | — | — |
| 2003 | 20 | #5,993 | — | — |
| 2002 | 12 | #8,707 | — | — |
| 2001 | 17 | #6,560 | — | — |
| 2000 | 20 | #5,645 | — | — |
| 1999 | 15 | #6,768 | — | — |
| 1998 | 21 | #5,088 | — | — |
| 1997 | 11 | #8,197 | — | — |
| 1996 | 9 | #9,391 | — | — |
| 1995 | 7 | #11,468 | — | — |
| 1994 | 8 | #10,296 | — | — |
| 1993 | 7 | #11,477 | — | — |
| 1992 | 7 | #11,401 | — | — |
| 1991 | 5 | #14,824 | — | — |
| 1990 | 6 | #12,515 | — | — |
| 1987 | 5 | #12,729 | — | — |
| 1986 | 7 | #9,305 | — | — |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,907 | — | — |
| 1980 | 5 | #11,670 | — | — |
| 1979 | 5 | #11,447 | — | — |
| 1978 | 5 | #10,998 | — | — |
| 1972 | 5 | #9,251 | — | — |
| 1969 | 5 | #8,369 | — | — |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,576 | — | — |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,553 | — | — |
| 1963 | 5 | #7,381 | — | — |
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).