Raeleigh
#2,430 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Raeleigh has been given to 2,371 babies in the U.S. since 1994. In 2025 it ranked #2,430 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2017, with 138 recorded.
Babies named Raeleigh, 2025
1 in 44,800
Raeleigh over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Raeleigh?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 44,800
- 74 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 21,700
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #2,430
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 31,054 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Raeleigh sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 31,054 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Raeleigh. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Raeleighs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Raeleigh was born before 2015 — so the typical Raeleigh is around 10 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 50.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 96.2%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 2,371
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 50.0% of all recorded uses (1,185).
Is Raeleigh rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- −151
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −484
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −767
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.57×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 53.6%
- Peak was 2017 (138)
- Years since peak
- 8
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 14.1% average annual change
Spellings of Raeleigh
Raeleigh is not the most common spelling — Ryleigh is, with 18.5% against Raeleigh's 1.2%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Raeleigh is used
Across 2016–2025, Raeleigh was most concentrated in Alabama — about 1 in 3,030 girls, against 1 in 16,127 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in 100,000).
Most concentrated
- 1Alabama1 in 3,030
- 2Mississippi1 in 4,167
- 3Kentucky1 in 4,762
- 4Georgia1 in 6,667
- 5Louisiana1 in 8,333
- 6Tennessee1 in 8,333
- 7Texas1 in 10,000
- 8West Virginia1 in 11,111
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.
Raeleigh around the world
Where Raeleigh ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales2021–2021#5,581in 2021
- Canada1999–2022#3,322in 2022
- South Australia1946–1946#367in 1946
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Raeleigh by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Raeleigh
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Raeleigh
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Raeleigh, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Raeleigh
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.