Rayleigh
#1,443 for girls in 2025, 149 births · #5,608 for boys in 2025, 16 births
Given to girls 96.8% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2018 · 189 births
- Debut · girls
- 7 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 3,000since 1995
Rayleigh over time
Rank among girls' names. Rayleigh has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,443 | 149 | #5,608 | 16 |
| 2024 | #1,441 | 153 | #5,659 | 16 |
| 2023 | #1,356 | 166 | #6,517 | 13 |
| 2022 | #1,288 | 184 | #5,445 | 17 |
| 2021 | #1,600 | 131 | #7,587 | 10 |
| 2020 | #1,264 | 177 | #10,605 | 6 |
| 2019 | #1,247 | 187 | #7,643 | 10 |
| 2018 | #1,233 | 189 | #12,156 | 5 |
| 2017 | #1,263 | 187 | — | |
| 2016 | #1,456 | 158 | #12,185 | 5 |
| 2015 | #1,470 | 156 | — | |
| 2014 | #1,345 | 174 | — | |
| 2013 | #1,646 | 129 | — | |
| 2012 | #1,663 | 128 | — | |
| 2011 | #1,612 | 134 | — | |
| 2010 | #1,688 | 125 | — | |
| 2009 | #2,375 | 81 | — | |
| 2008 | #2,318 | 84 | — | |
| 2007 | #2,890 | 62 | — | |
| 2006 | #3,054 | 55 | — | |
| 2005 | #4,195 | 33 | — | |
| 2004 | #3,748 | 38 | — | |
| 2003 | #4,307 | 30 | — | |
| 2002 | #6,392 | 17 | — | |
| 2001 | #6,619 | 16 | — | |
| 2000 | #7,158 | 14 | — | |
| 1999 | #7,716 | 12 | — | |
| 1998 | #8,584 | 10 | — | |
| 1997 | #9,802 | 8 | — | |
| 1996 | #11,807 | 6 | — | |
| 1995 | #10,514 | 7 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Rayleigh! It came in at #10,514, and was given to 7 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1995–1997, when fewer than 9 girls a year got the name.
See more about Rayleigh
- 2 spots since 2024 (#1,441 → #1,443)
- 179 spots since 2020 (#1,264 → #1,443)
- 27 spots since 2015 (#1,470 → #1,443)
- Debuted 1995
- Peaked 2018 at #1,233 (189 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 8,914 girls born in 2022 were named Rayleigh (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 10,787 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #1,233 in 2018, was only 1 in 9,000 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 52.2% of all girls named Rayleigh (1,567) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 43 | #7,716 (1999) | #9,685 |
| 2000s | 430 | #2,318 (2008) | #4,306 |
| 2010s | 1,567 | #1,233 (2018) | #1,462 |
| 2020s | 960 | #1,264 (2020) | #1,399 |
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.
Rayleigh in 2019
Top girls' names in 2019
Top boys' names in 2019
More about 2019
girls
1,678,366 girls got a published name in 2019; 1 in 8,975 of them was named Rayleigh, which outranked 93.1% of the 18,024 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
1,794,216 boys got a published name in 2019; 1 in 179,422 of them was named Rayleigh, which outranked 45.9% of the 14,133 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #7,173Zy11
- #7,173Zyden11
- #7,173Zyeir11
- #7,643Rayleigh10
- #7,643Aadith10
- #7,643Aaliyan10
- #7,643Aaris10
- #8,215Aahaan9
- #8,215Aarian9
- #8,215Aavash9
Tied with 571 names at #7,643; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.