Raelyn

What Raelyn means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Raelyn yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #502 vs #3,705 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Raelyn?

US: Falling: down from #342 in 2015. England & Wales: New in the last 10 years.

Biggest US share so far: 2017, when 1,027 girls got the name (#316 that year). First in the US records in 1949.

How common

• About 1 in 2,715 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 42,214 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in SD (1.64 per 1,000 girls), MS (1.24 per 1,000 girls), SC (1.2 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Raelyn is #502 in the US and #3705 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.0% of US babies named Raelyn were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Raelynn2,326 US · 11 E&W
• Raylynn176 US
• Raylyn56 US
• Railynn49 US
• Raylin49 US
• Raylen43 US
• Rilyn31 US
• Raelynne30 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Raelyn

Girls

• Kinsley#93“Royal (a man's name) + s + woodland clearing”^*
• Quinn#97“descendant of Chief”^*
• Cora#113“maiden”^*
• Mila#43Editor’s note Up from #53 in 2015 to #43 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 340 US girls in the 2025 records
• Harper#16From a surname for “a player of the harp”^*
• Hadley#121“heath + woodland clearing”^*

For a brother

• Greyson#149Variant of Grayson, meaning “steward”^*
• Grayson#51“steward”^*
• Emmett#121Diminutive of Emma, meaning “entire”^*
• Ryker#182Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #182 vs #1,066 in 2025
• Knox#196“round hill”^*
• Silas#71Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #71 vs #585 in 2025

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Raelyn’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.