Raylene

A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 39 babies a year in the US.

Babies a year
39
the US, 2017
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
—
outside the ONS list

Raylene by the numbers

Raylene was given to 39 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

Its American peak was 79 babies in 1961, making it a 1960s name.

What we can tell you about Raylene

Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.

Spelled almost the same

Other names in the records within a letter or two of Raylene. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

  • Raylee313 in the US (2017)
  • Raylen123 in the US (2017)
  • Raelene10 in the US (2017)
  • Raylenn5 in the US (2017)
  • Ryleerye clearing; a respelling of Ryley2,971 in the US (2017)
  • Raynerain or counsel; a modern respelling of Raine368 in the US (2017)

Sounds like Raylene

Names that are said the same way as Raylene, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.

Names about as common as Raylene

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