How Many People Are Named Rayleigh?
people named Rayleigh are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 111,041 people in the US has this name
Based on 3,098 babies named Rayleigh in Social Security records from 1995 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
201 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
⚧ Gender Distribution
Of the babies given the name Rayleigh, 96.8% were girls and 3.2% were boys. The share has stayed close to this since the 2000s: 100% of the babies were girls then and 92.5% in the 2020s.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Rayleigh alive today is about 9 years old, and 100% are under 30. Half of them were between 4 and 13 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Rayleigh first appears in the records in 1995 and was given most often in 2022, to 201 babies. In 2025, 165 babies got the name.
Babies given the name each year, 1995 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Rayleigh has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #1,236, in 2018. In 2025 it ranked #1,451.
| Girls | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #1,451 |
| Best rank | #1,236 (2018) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #1,466 in the 2010s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Rayleigh alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Rayleigh were born in Texas than in any other state: about 406 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Rayleigh was given 6.6 times as often in Mississippi, 6.4 times in Kentucky and 6 times in Alabama.
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