Raylene
Raylene is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 18 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 180.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 196179 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1926
- 4,049people given the name
The story in the numbers
4,049 girls have been named Raylene in the United States since 1926, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1961, with 79 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1978, and the 1960s alone account for 15%.
By decade
| Decade | girls named Raylene | |
|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 30 | |
| 1930s | 129 | |
| 1940s | 361 | |
| 1950s | 560 | |
| 1960s | 600 | |
| 1970s | 385 | |
| 1980s | 387 | |
| 1990s | 496 | |
| 2000s | 591 | |
| 2010s | 381 | |
| 2020s | 129 |
In 1961, its biggest year
Raylene was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1961 were Mary, Lisa, Susan, Linda and Karen. See all of 1961.
Names that rose and fell with Raylene
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Raelenepeak 1959
- Rosariopeak 1993
- Karlynpeak 1992
- Saralynpeak 1961
- Juliannpeak 1961
- Annamariepeak 1996
- Gracielapeak 1998
- Jeralynpeak 1961
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.