girls:
1.1k births since 1963
#4660 (18th percentile)
boys:
84 births since 2007
#4502 (2nd percentile)
overall:
1.1k births since 1963
#6599 (15th percentile)
The name Raylyn is the #6,599 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,140 recorded births since 1963. This represents the 14.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 14.7% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,660 (18.4% percentile) for all time with 1,056 births since 1963. For boys, it ranks #4,502 (1.8% percentile) for all time with 84 births since 2007.
Raylyn first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1963 (1963 for girls and 2007 for boys). Birth data for Raylyn is available in 45 out of the 61 years between 1963 and 2023 (45 years for girls and 11 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Raylyn has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 92.6% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Raylyn reached its peak popularity in 2012, achieving the 6.2% percentile (ranked #879) with 32 births per million. The name was most common in 2012, with 32 births per million (ranked 6.2% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Raylyn ranks #905 for girls (4.4% percentile) with 27 births per million, which is 82.7% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Raylyn reached its peak popularity in 2013, achieving the 0.6% percentile (ranked #883) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 2013, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.6% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2021.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Raylyn".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Raylyn. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 70.7% confident that Raylyn is pronounced as RAY-lihn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is RAY-leen, at 22.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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