Railyn
#4,727 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Railyn has been given to 909 babies in the U.S. since 1994. In 2025 it ranked #4,727 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2013, with 64 recorded.
Babies named Railyn, 2025
1 in 114,000
Railyn 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Railyn?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 114,000
- 29 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 55,400
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #4,727
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 79,239 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Railyn 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 79,239 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Railyn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Railyns were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Railyn was born before 2015 — so the typical Railyn is around 10 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 56.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 96.2%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 896
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 56.1% of all recorded uses (503).
Is Railyn 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
- +133
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −1,346
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −1,347
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.60×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 45.3%
- Peak was 2013 (64)
- Years since peak
- 12
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 21.5% average annual change
Spellings of Railyn
Railyn is not the most common spelling — Marilyn is, with 36.5% against Railyn's 0.09%.
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 Railyn is used
Across 2016–2025, Railyn was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 16,667 girls, against 1 in 47,972 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Mississippi1 in 16,667
- 2Florida1 in 20,000
- 3Alabama1 in 33,333
- 4Louisiana1 in 33,333
- 5Georgia1 in 50,000
- 6Michigan1 in 100,000
- 7North Carolina1 in 100,000
- 8Texas1 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.
Railyn by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Railyn
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Railyn
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.