girls:
2.2k births since 1994
#3661 (36th percentile)
overall:
2.2k births since 1994
#5582 (28th percentile)
The name Raeleigh is the #5,582 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,212 recorded births since 1994. This represents the 27.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 27.9% of all names). For girls, it ranks #3,661 (35.9% percentile) for all time with 2,212 births since 1994.
Raeleigh first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1994 (first recorded for girls in 1994).
For girls, Raeleigh reached its peak popularity in 2017, achieving the 14.0% percentile (ranked #816) with 73 births per million. The name was most common in 2021, with 76 births per million (ranked 14.0% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2018, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Raeleigh ranks #836 for girls (11.7% percentile) with 66 births per million, which is 87.4% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Raeleigh".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Raeleigh is pronounced as RAY-lee, which has 2 syllables.
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