Meaning not yet researched.
Raylynn: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 176 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,039 in 2017.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,039 in 2017; #1,277 in 2025. About 97% of babies named Raylynn in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,277 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2017, at #1,039.
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Raylynn: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 176 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,039 in 2017 · most girls in one year: 249 (2017).
In 2025, 176 US girls were named Raylynn, making it the 1,277th most common girls’ name of the year, down 83 places from #1,194 in 2024. That is 23 fewer than the 199 girls named Raylynn in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,039, reached in 2017. That year also had the most girls given the name: 249. For comparison, it was #1,253 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Raylynn in 52 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1964 with 5 babies. In all, 3,889 US babies have been given the name, 98% of them girls and 1.6% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,806 babies named Raylynn.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,064 US girls were named Raylynn; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 249. In 2025 that was about 1 in 9,132 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Raylynn ranked highest in Oklahoma in 2025, at #610 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. 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.
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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 Raylynn 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 35 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oklahoma | 7 | #610 | #508 |
| Ohio | 17 | #617 | #589 |
| Indiana | 10 | #641 | #669 |
| Arkansas | 5 | #645 | #563 |
| Kentucky | 6 | #730 | #421 |
| Missouri | 7 | #791 | #726 |
| Tennessee | 8 | #867 | #1,041 |
| Louisiana | 5 | #879 | #650 |
| North Carolina | 10 | #961 | — |
| Michigan | 5 | #1,369 | — |
| Texas | 18 | #1,395 | #1,175 |
| Georgia | 6 | #1,504 | #1,462 |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,579 | #1,143 |
| Florida | 7 | #1,836 | #1,246 |
| New York | 6 | #2,021 | #2,173 |
| California | 6 | #3,028 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 176 | #1,277 | 6 | #11,695 |
| 2024 | 199 | #1,194 | 5 | #13,795 |
| 2023 | 186 | #1,247 | — | — |
| 2022 | 190 | #1,265 | — | — |
| 2021 | 214 | #1,147 | 5 | #13,643 |
| 2020 | 210 | #1,137 | 7 | #10,360 |
| 2019 | 212 | #1,142 | 6 | #11,823 |
| 2018 | 210 | #1,158 | — | — |
| 2017 | 249 | #1,039 | 8 | #9,496 |
| 2016 | 218 | #1,154 | 6 | #11,825 |
| 2015 | 196 | #1,253 | — | — |
| 2014 | 166 | #1,390 | 5 | #13,600 |
| 2013 | 147 | #1,507 | — | — |
| 2012 | 158 | #1,448 | 9 | #8,719 |
| 2011 | 103 | #1,937 | 5 | #13,874 |
| 2010 | 108 | #1,881 | — | — |
| 2009 | 90 | #2,202 | — | — |
| 2008 | 82 | #2,376 | — | — |
| 2007 | 63 | #2,883 | — | — |
| 2006 | 62 | #2,844 | — | — |
| 2005 | 51 | #3,117 | — | — |
| 2004 | 47 | #3,254 | — | — |
| 2003 | 44 | #3,336 | — | — |
| 2002 | 38 | #3,581 | — | — |
| 2001 | 42 | #3,301 | — | — |
| 2000 | 37 | #3,575 | — | — |
| 1999 | 28 | #4,175 | — | — |
| 1998 | 20 | #5,306 | — | — |
| 1997 | 28 | #3,979 | — | — |
| 1996 | 23 | #4,551 | — | — |
| 1995 | 21 | #4,808 | — | — |
| 1994 | 14 | #6,575 | — | — |
| 1993 | 15 | #6,176 | — | — |
| 1992 | 13 | #6,946 | — | — |
| 1991 | 23 | #4,451 | — | — |
| 1990 | 13 | #6,765 | — | — |
| 1989 | 18 | #5,007 | — | — |
| 1988 | 13 | #6,171 | — | — |
| 1987 | 12 | #6,231 | — | — |
| 1986 | 9 | #7,581 | — | — |
| 1985 | 5 | #11,987 | — | — |
| 1984 | 8 | #7,960 | — | — |
| 1982 | 8 | #8,023 | — | — |
| 1981 | 9 | #7,232 | — | — |
| 1980 | 6 | #10,023 | — | — |
| 1979 | 5 | #11,448 | — | — |
| 1977 | 8 | #7,376 | — | — |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,900 | — | — |
| 1974 | 7 | #7,469 | — | — |
| 1973 | 6 | #8,152 | — | — |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,964 | — | — |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,554 | — | — |
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).