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Raelene

#14,521 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Raelene has been given to 2,451 babies in the U.S. since 1929. In 2025 it ranked #14,521 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1959, with 55 recorded.

Babies named Raelene, 2025

1 in 553,000

Raelene over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Raelene: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Raelene means

Raelene is a given name.

The naming story behind Raelene

Wikidata records Raelene as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q82244583, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,451 girls were recorded with the name Raelene between 1929 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 55 in 1959; its best national rank was #1,458 in 1955.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #7,148 in 2020 to #14,521 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #7,524 in 2015 to #14,521 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Raelene?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 268,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#14,521
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Raelene sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Raelene. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Raelenes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Raelene was born before 1974 — so the typical Raelene is around 51 today.

Median birth year
1974
About 51 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
17.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
17.5%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,182
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 17.5% of all recorded uses (429).

Is Raelene 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
−4,434
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−7,373
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−6,997
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.38×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
10.9%
Peak was 1959 (55)
Years since peak
66
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
25.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,458
1955

Spellings of Raelene

Raelene is not the most common spelling — Darlene is, with 29.6% against Raelene's 0.35%.

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 Raelene is used

Across 1910–2025, Raelene was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 20,000 girls, against 1 in 77,384 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

05 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 20,000
  2. 2New Hampshire1 in 100,000
  3. 3Illinois1 in —
  4. 4Michigan1 in —
  5. 5Ohio1 in —
  6. 6Pennsylvania1 in —
  7. 7Texas1 in —
  8. 8Washington1 in —

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. Raelene has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Raelene around the world

Where Raelene 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.

  • Canada
    1991–2004
    #2,752
    in 2004
  • South Australia
    1944–1996
    #712
    in 1996

Popularity data from Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Raelene

People whose public names include Raelene, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Raelene by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#14,521
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 7,373
Best rank ever
#1,458
1955
Peak year
1959
55 that year
First recorded
1929
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,451
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Raelene

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Raelene

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Raelene, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

SynthiaJaniseSariJulienneRanaeTeresitaRoniTomiLezlieLianneMarylynnLynelle

Sibling names for Raelene

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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