Raistlin
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Raistlin has been given to 381 babies in the U.S. since 1991. 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 2000, with 25 recorded.
Babies named Raistlin, 2021
1 in 484,000
Raistlin 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Raistlin?
Raistlin 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 484,000
- 7 of 3,389,958 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 250,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2021
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 335,678 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Raistlin sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 335,678 children born in 2021 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Raistlin. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Raistlins were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Raistlin was born before 2003 — so the typical Raistlin is around 22 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 44.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 81.4%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 381
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 44.9% of all recorded uses (171).
Is Raistlin 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
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- 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 2000 (25)
- Years since peak
- 25
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 30.4% average annual change
Raistlin around the world
Where Raistlin 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.
- Canada2004–2004#2,269in 2004
- South Australia1993–1993#359in 1993
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.
Raistlin by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Raistlin
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Raistlin
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.