Rael
Rael reached its high-water mark in 2024 at number 2,313, and has been recorded 660 times in all. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 2,516th. About 650 Raels are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 8.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Rael boys named Rael
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 660
- Estimated living today
- 650
- Median age today
- 8
- Peak year
- 2024
- Best rank
- 2,313th
- Rank in 2025
- 2,516th
- First recorded
- 1971
- Girls / boys
- 202 / 458
How old the living Raels are
born that year still alive today
Of the 660 babies given the name since 1971, about 650 are alive — 99 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2017 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where Rael is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Rael is most concentrated in Texas (4.7×), California (2.2×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2024
The most popular boys’ names the year Rael peaked:
Rael elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Raël +1 spelling | 230 | 1,679th |
| England and Wales boys | Rael | 40 | 2,921st |
| Switzerland boys | Rael | 13 | 1,287th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Rael: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Rael | 9 | 0.001% | 1,284th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Rael | 3 | 0.001% | 704th |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Rael | 1 | 0.002% | 180th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
Related names
Rael against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.