Raleigh
Raleigh is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 63 births. Its best rank was 357th, in 1891.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 630.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 1921139 births
- Best rank
- #357in 1891
- Since 1880
- 12,165people given the name
The story in the numbers
9,213 boys have been named Raleigh in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1921, with 139 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1950, and the 1920s alone account for 13%. It has spent 83 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Raleigh is used for both sexes: 24% of its bearers are girls (2,952), most of them born around 2016.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Raleigh | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 168 | |
| 1890s | 185 | |
| 1900s | 233 | |
| 1910s | 846 | |
| 1920s | 1,165 | |
| 1930s | 916 | |
| 1940s | 1,023 | |
| 1950s | 860 | |
| 1960s | 574 | |
| 1970s | 444 | |
| 1980s | 497 | |
| 1990s | 538 | |
| 2000s | 544 | |
| 2010s | 879 | |
| 2020s | 341 |
In 1921, its biggest year
Raleigh was the 530th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1921 were John, Robert, William, James and Charles. See all of 1921.
Names that rose and fell with Raleigh
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Williamspeak 1950
- Crawfordpeak 1924
- Emorypeak 1920
- Freemanpeak 1918
- Valentinepeak 1918
- Evanspeak 2024
- Louispeak 1921
- Orenpeak 2021
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.