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Raelyn vs Raelynne

American parents have registered 15,864 Raelyns since 1880, against 812 Raelynnes. Raelyn is still ahead, with 598 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Raelyn against Raelynne, 1880 to 2025 0 300 600 900 1.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Raelyn Raelynne

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Raelyn has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1949 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1989, when Raelyn had 36 and Raelynne had 6.

Side by side

  Raelyn Raelynne
Total US births 15,864812
Most in one year 1,03460
Babies in 2025 59830
Estimated living today 16,000810
Median age today 99
Peak year 20162021
Best rank 317th girls2,818th girls
Rank in 2025 502nd4,546th
First recorded 19491982
Girls / boys 15,768 / 96812 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Raelyn and Raelynne.