Raewyn

Girls' name

Meaning and deeper origin uncertain

Raewyn has been given to 24 babies in the U.S. since 1981. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2021, with 8 recorded.

Babies named Raewyn, 2021

1 in 424,000

Raewyn over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Raewyn: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and deeper origin uncertain

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Raewyn means

Raewyn is a given name.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Possibly a compound of the names Rae and Wynn.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Raewyn (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Raewyn is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 24 girls were recorded with the name Raewyn between 1981 and 2021. Its highest annual count was 8 in 2021; its best national rank was #11,658 in 1981.

How common is Raewyn?

Raewyn had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2021, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2021: 1 in 424,000; 8 of 3,389,958 births
Among girls only: 1 in 205,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2021: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 293,719 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Raewyn 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 2021 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 293,719 children born in 2021 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Raewyn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Raewyns were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Raewyn was born before 2013 — so the typical Raewyn is around 12 today.

Median birth year: 2013; About 12 years old
Biggest decade: 2010s; 45.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 79.2%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 24; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2010s — 45.8% of all recorded uses (11).

Is Raewyn 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: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 2021 (8)
Years since peak: 4; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Not enough data; Too few years
Best rank ever: #11,658; 1981

Spellings of Raewyn

Raewyn is not the most common spelling — Raelynn is, with 23.2% against Raewyn's 0.02%.

Raelynn23.2%34,671
Raegan16.8%25,214
Raelyn10.5%15,768
Kaelyn10.4%15,566
Jaelyn9.5%14,201
Braelyn7.3%10,972
Raeann2.6%3,915
Rowyn2.2%3,326

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.

Raewyn around the world

Where Raewyn 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 & Wales
2016–2016
#5,785
in 2016
South Australia
1949–1996
#712
in 1996

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Raewyn by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #11,658; 1981
Peak year: 2021; 8 that year
First recorded: 1981
Last recorded: 2021
All-time count: 24
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Raewyn

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

Raella Raelah Raelen Raeyah Raegin Raelei Raevan Aeowyn Raenee Raeliana Raely Raevon Raenna Raegene Raengel Raelyne Raedawn Raedene Raeisha Raeni Raeesah Raeva Raelina Raelea

Sibling names for Raewyn

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

For a sister

Journi Lennox Berkley Layne Ellison Legacy Marleigh Adley

For a brother

Henri Finnley Axton Yaakov Grey Magnus Ameer Flynn

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