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Raylee

#1,168 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Raylee has been given to 5,131 babies in the U.S. since 1988. In 2025 it ranked #1,168 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2017, with 312 recorded.

Babies named Raylee, 2025

1 in 16,700

Raylee over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
010020030040018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Raylee: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Raylee means

Raylee is a given name.

The naming story behind Raylee

Wikidata records Raylee as a unisex given name. The entity identifier is Q105710069, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,037 girls were recorded with the name Raylee between 1988 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 312 in 2017; its best national rank was #879 in 2017.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,092 in 2020 to #1,168 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,023 in 2015 to #1,168 in 2025.

In the United States, 94 boys were recorded with the name Raylee between 1993 and 2020. Its highest annual count was 9 in 2006; its best national rank was #7,431 in 1993.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Raylee?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 16,700
199 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 8,080
0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,168
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
11,548 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Raylee 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 2025 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 5003%

Put another way: gather 11,548 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Raylee. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Raylees were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Raylee was born before 2015 — so the typical Raylee is around 10 today.

Median birth year
2015
About 10 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
50.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
95.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
5,037
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 50.3% of all recorded uses (2,535).

Is Raylee 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
+90
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−76
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−145
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.76×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
63.8%
Peak was 2017 (312)
Years since peak
8
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
11.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#879
2017

Spellings of Raylee

Raylee is not the most common spelling — Kaylee is, with 15.7% against Raylee's 0.56%.

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 Raylee is used

Across 2016–2025, Raylee was most concentrated in Oklahoma — about 1 in 1,163 girls, against 1 in 6,504 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in 50,000).

286 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Oklahoma1 in 1,163
  2. 2Kentucky1 in 1,316
  3. 3Mississippi1 in 1,852
  4. 4Arkansas1 in 2,128
  5. 5Alabama1 in 2,326
  6. 6West Virginia1 in 2,381
  7. 7Missouri1 in 2,632
  8. 8Louisiana1 in 2,703

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.

Raylee around the world

Where Raylee 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
    2024–2024
    #4,844
    in 2024
  • Canada
    2007–2024
    #3,027
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1944–1973
    #695
    in 1973

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

Notable people named Raylee

People whose public names include Raylee, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Raylee by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,168
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 76
Best rank ever
#879
2017
Peak year
2017
312 that year
First recorded
1988
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
5,037
Count in 2025
199

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#7,431
1993
Peak year
2006
9 that year
First recorded
1993
Last recorded
2020
All-time count
94
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Raylee

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

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Names with a curve like Raylee

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Raylee, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

ElleryEllisonMaliahLeelaLandryKaleahDalilahKeilyJurneeHonestyKairiSaanvi

Sibling names for Raylee

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

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