Rayleigh
Rayleigh is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 152 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 1520.01% of girls
- Peak year
- 2018189 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1995
- 2,932people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,850 girls have been named Rayleigh in the United States since 1995, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2018, with 189 births.
It has never been more used than now: its record year is 2018, within the last few years of data.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2016, and the 2010s alone account for 55%.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 82 boys have also been given it, 2.8% of the total.
By decade
In 2018, its biggest year
Rayleigh was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 2018 were Emma, Olivia, Ava, Isabella and Sophia. See all of 2018.
Names that rose and fell with Rayleigh
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Yatziripeak 2023
- Nylahpeak 2019
- Adaliepeak 2023
- Jannatpeak 2018
- Anvipeak 2018
- Emrypeak 2017
- Milanapeak 2015
- Anylahpeak 2019
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.