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 2020
Top girls' names in 2020
Top boys' names in 2020
More about 2020
girls
1,616,549 girls got a published name in 2020; 1 in 9,133 of them was named Rayleigh, which outranked 92.8% of the 17,527 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,261Brenda180
- #1,262Cambria179
- #1,263Jream178
- #1,264Rayleigh177
- #1,264Alyvia177
- #1,264Annette177
- #1,264Ariela177
- #1,271Jaida176
- #1,271Joslyn176
- #1,271Mercedes176
Tied with 6 names at #1,264; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,726,076 boys got a published name in 2020; 1 in 287,679 of them was named Rayleigh, which outranked 24.6% of the 14,060 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #9,554Zyel7
- #9,554Zyen7
- #9,554Zyquan7
- #10,605Rayleigh6
- #10,605Aakil6
- #10,605Aamil6
- #10,605Aaran6
- #12,022Aadhan5
- #12,022Aadhavan5
- #12,022Aagam5
Tied with 1,416 names at #10,605; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↓ 380Vivaan#875 → #1,255
- ↓ 282Alexzander#890 → #1,172
- ↓ 268Reyansh#806 → #1,074
- ↓ 266Javion#949 → #1,215
- ↓ 224Kenny#862 → #1,086
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.