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Raylene

#7,067 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Raylene has been given to 4,065 babies in the U.S. since 1926. In 2025 it ranked #7,067 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1961, with 79 recorded.

Babies named Raylene, 2025

1 in 207,000

Raylene over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Raylene: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Raylene means

Raylene is a given name.

The naming story behind Raylene

Wikidata records Raylene as a given name. The entity identifier is Q109895923, 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, 4,065 girls were recorded with the name Raylene between 1926 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 79 in 1961; its best national rank was #1,217 in 1949.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,808 in 2020 to #7,067 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,378 in 2015 to #7,067 in 2025.

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 Raylene?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 207,000
16 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 100,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#7,067
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
143,620 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Raylene 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 143,620 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Raylene. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Raylenes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Raylene was born before 1979 — so the typical Raylene is around 46 today.

Median birth year
1979
About 46 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
14.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
25.7%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
3,545
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 14.8% of all recorded uses (600).

Is Raylene 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
−476
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,259
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,689
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.48×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
20.3%
Peak was 1961 (79)
Years since peak
64
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,217
1949

Spellings of Raylene

Raylene is not the most common spelling — Darlene is, with 22.1% against Raylene's 0.44%.

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 Raylene is used

Across 1910–2025, Raylene was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 10,000 girls, against 1 in 39,846 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

010 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 10,000
  2. 2Arizona1 in 100,000
  3. 3Colorado1 in 100,000
  4. 4Maine1 in 100,000
  5. 5Illinois1 in —
  6. 6Massachusetts1 in —
  7. 7Michigan1 in —
  8. 8Ohio1 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. Raylene has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Raylene around the world

Where Raylene 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.

  • Canada
    1991–2022
    #3,322
    in 2022
  • South Australia
    1944–1992
    #704
    in 1992

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.

Raylene by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#7,067
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,259
Best rank ever
#1,217
1949
Peak year
1961
79 that year
First recorded
1926
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,065
Count in 2025
16

Names similar to Raylene

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

RaylynnRayannaRayleeRayvenRayleighRayanneRayleenRaymondRayonnaKayleneJasleneJaileneRayannAdileneRaeleneRaylinRayanaRaylynRayganAbileneJayleneRayneSereneRaychel

Names with a curve like Raylene

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

RonniSariDenniseJulienneJuliannKarlynJanieceLaniRosarioDelanaCarlynJanise

Sibling names for Raylene

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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