Rayel
UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Rayel has been given to 80 babies in the U.S. since 1989. 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 1993, with 11 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 93% girls, 7% boys all-time.
Babies named Rayel, 2024
1 in 669,000
Rayel 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Rayel over time
In 2024, Rayel 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 Rayel?
Rayel had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2024
- 1 in 669,000
- 5 of 3,342,801 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 324,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2024
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 463,412 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Rayel sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 463,412 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rayel. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Rayels were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Rayel was born before 1999 — so the typical Rayel is around 26 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 50.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 43.2%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 74
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 50.0% of all recorded uses (37).
Is Rayel 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 1993 (11)
- Years since peak
- 32
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 17.8% average annual change
Spellings of Rayel
Rayel is not the most common spelling — Rachel is, with 41.9% against Rayel's <0.01%.
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.
Rayel around the world
Where Rayel 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.
- Canada1992–1992#2,433in 1992
Popularity data from Statistics Canada. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Rayel by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Rayel
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Rayel
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.