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Raylene

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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
Babies named Raylene, by year of birthgirls
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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

Decadegirls named Raylene
1920s30
1930s129
1940s361
1950s560
1960s600
1970s385
1980s387
1990s496
2000s591
2010s381
2020s129

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.

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.