Railey
#6,765 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Railey has been given to 820 babies in the U.S. since 1995. In 2025 it ranked #6,765 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2007, with 48 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 94% girls, 6% boys all-time.
Babies named Railey, 2025
1 in 195,000
Railey 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Railey over time
In 2025, Railey went to 100% girls and 0% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Railey?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 195,000
- 17 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 94,500
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #6,765
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 135,172 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Railey 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 135,172 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Railey. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Raileys were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Railey was born before 2010 — so the typical Railey is around 15 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 41.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 90.7%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 772
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 41.1% of all recorded uses (317).
Is Railey 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
- +1,556
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +3,335
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −1,814
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.61×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 35.4%
- Peak was 2007 (48)
- Years since peak
- 18
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 28.3% average annual change
Spellings of Railey
Railey is not the most common spelling — Hailey is, with 15.8% against Railey's 0.07%.
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 Railey is used
Across 1910–2025, Railey was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 411,238 across all states with data. It was least common in Utah (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Texas1 in 100,000
- 2California1 in —
- 3Florida1 in —
- 4Georgia1 in —
- 5Utah1 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. Railey has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Railey around the world
Where Railey 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.
- France2005–2025#2,921in 2025
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.
Railey by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Railey
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Railey
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.