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Raelynn vs Raelynne

American parents have registered 34,722 Raelynns since 1880, against 812 Raelynnes. Raelynn is still ahead, with 2,326 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Raelynn against Raelynne, 1880 to 2025 0 800 1.6k 2.4k 3.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Raelynn 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

Raelynn has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1947 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1990, when Raelynn had 47 and Raelynne had 6.

Side by side

  Raelynn Raelynne
Total US births 34,722812
Most in one year 2,73460
Babies in 2025 2,32630
Estimated living today 34,000810
Median age today 69
Peak year 20222021
Best rank 99th girls2,818th girls
Rank in 2025 116th4,546th
First recorded 19471982
Girls / boys 34,671 / 51812 / 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.

Which name is older

Half of the Raelynnes alive today are over 9; half the Raelynns are over 6. That is 3 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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