Raeleigh

#2,410 for girls in 2025, 74 births

Peak · girls
2021 · 136 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
2,371
since 1994

Raeleigh over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Raeleigh has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201994girlsat peak
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

Show data table
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rankbirths
2025#2,41074
2024#2,26582
2023#1,750117
2022#1,918104
2021#1,544136
2020#1,92499
2019#1,816112
2018#1,640129
2017#1,580138
2016#1,649131
2015#1,655129
2014#1,643130
2013#1,866108
2012#1,911104
2011#1,886106
2010#2,02898
2009#2,11995
2008#2,44178
2007#2,61670
2006#3,26450
2005#3,50942
2004#3,63140
2003#3,29144
2002#3,65436
2001#4,20929
2000#4,98123
1999#6,48415
1998#6,36015
1997#5,86816
1996#8,13210
1995#11,7836
1994#13,4305
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First appearance
1994

The first year at least five girls were named Raeleigh! It came in at #13,430, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1994–1995, when fewer than 7 girls a year got the name.

See more about Raeleigh
Momentum · girls
Falling
  • 145 spots since 2024 (#2,265#2,410)
  • 486 spots since 2020 (#1,924#2,410)
  • 755 spots since 2015 (#1,655#2,410)
Rise & fade · girls
27 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1994
  • Peaked 2021 at #1,544 (136 births)
  • Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 12,065
  • Highest: 1 in 12,065 girls born in 2021 were named Raeleigh (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 21,720 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 2010s
  • 50.0% of all girls named Raeleigh (1,185) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1990s67#5,868 (1997)#8,676
2000s507#2,119 (2009)#3,372
2010s1,185#1,580 (2017)#1,767
2020s612#1,544 (2021)#1,969

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Raeleigh in 1994

girls
#13,430
5 births · 1 in 357,151 girls

Top girls' names in 1994

  1. #1Jessica32,122
  2. #2Ashley30,281
  3. #3Emily24,154
  4. #4Samantha22,824
  5. #5Sarah22,299
  6. #6Taylor20,734
  7. #7Brittany18,900
  8. #8Amanda18,718
  9. #9Elizabeth16,786
  10. #10Megan16,580
  11. #13,430Raeleigh5
More about 1994

girls

1,785,753 girls got a published name in 1994; 1 in 357,151 of them was named Raeleigh, which outranked 14.8% of the 15,759 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 12.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Raeleigh
  1. #11,778Zhanna6
  2. #11,778Zoha6
  3. #11,778Zowie6
  4. #13,430Raeleigh5
  5. #13,430Aailyah5
  6. #13,430Aaliayah5
  7. #13,430Aalijah5

Tied with 2,329 names at #13,430; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1993
Risers
  1. 4,523Nohely#5,419#896
  2. 4,322Aaliyah#4,524#202
  3. 2,306Zana#3,108#802
  4. 1,711Aliyah#2,068#357
  5. 1,430Zhane#2,012#582
Fallers
  1. 1,015Coraima#875#1,890
  2. 799Kalene#929#1,728
  3. 656Deyanira#938#1,594
  4. 577Crysta#968#1,545
  5. 562Hilary#647#1,209

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1994