How rare is the name Raylee?

3,545 people in the United States have the first name Raylee, about 1 in 85,199. It ranks #5,000 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

RAYLEE

#5,000

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
3,545
About
1 in 85,199
This common or more
84.8%
Who bears it

Of the 3,545 people named Raylee, 79% reported their origin as White, 8% as Hispanic or Latino and 6.5% as two or more races. 96.2% are female. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Raylee peaked in 2017, when 318 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19882025
Peak year
2017
Births that year
318
In 2025*
199 ▼37%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 5,131 babies have been given the name since 1988. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Raylee by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 2010s, when it ranked #1,867. The largest share of babies named Raylee, 60.3%, were born in 2013 or later.

1980s#29,8365
1990s#8,939173
2000s#3,0761,119
2010s#1,8672,571
2020s#2,1641,263
Millennials 1981–961.6%
Generation Z 1997–1238.1%
2013 and later60.3%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Raylee is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Raylee has been most common in Oklahoma (6×), Kentucky (3.9×), and Utah (3.9×), and least common in Pennsylvania (0.2×).

3,677 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Either side of Raylee

#4,998 Maxx · 3,549#4,999 Jaymie · 3,547#5,001 Tierney · 3,544#5,002 Hosea · 3,543

Spelled almost the same

4 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Raylee, most common first.

#9,787 Raelee · 1,400#27,410 Raylie · 334#33,410 Railee · 248#39,013 Rayley · 195

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