Raileigh
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- RAY-lee
- Origin
- English
- US rank, 2025
- #10,913 for girls
Raileigh is a girls' name of English origin, meaning “roe deer clearing”. In 2025 it ranked 10,913th for girls in the US (8 babies).
What does Raileigh mean?
English: respelling of Rayleigh or Raleigh, English place names
“roe deer clearing”
Is Raileigh a girl's or a boy's name?
Raileigh is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 8 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Raileigh in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 10,913th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 8 about 1 in 200,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 8 girls in the US were named Raileigh, making it the 10,913th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 9,541st. Its busiest year was 2013, with 19 girls. It first appears in the records in 2002.
Half of all the girls named Raileigh in the US since 1880 were born between 2010 and 2019, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 572 girls in the US were given Raileigh or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #528, up from #10,913 for this spelling alone.
Raileigh in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #10,913 |
| 2024 | 5 | #15,288 |
| 2023 | 12 | #8,481 |
| 2022 | 8 | #11,225 |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,141 |
| 2020 | 10 | #9,541 |
| 2019 | 19 | #6,172 |
| 2018 | 14 | #7,758 |
| 2017 | 8 | #11,611 |
| 2016 | 16 | #7,227 |
| 2015 | 16 | #7,263 |
| 2014 | 11 | #9,512 |
| 2013 | 19 | #6,459 |
| 2012 | 15 | #7,800 |
| 2011 | 18 | #6,852 |
| 2010 | 10 | #10,446 |
| 2009 | 13 | #8,884 |
| 2008 | 9 | #11,594 |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 5 | #17,163 |
| 2005 | 5 | #16,455 |
| 2004 | 8 | #11,617 |
| 2003 | 8 | #11,319 |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,102 |
Names like Raileigh
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Teagan, Brynlee, Briar, Braelynn, Kenley, Rynlee, Reign, Rylynn, Brynn, Ocean, Sevyn, Rowan
Other spellings of Raileigh
Raylee, Rayleigh, Raeleigh, Raelee, Railey, Railee, Raylie, Raylei, Raeley, Raeli, Rayley
Names related to Raileigh
More English names
Lily, Evelyn, Hudson, Ivy, Harper, Grace, Violet, Willow, Daisy, Poppy, Riley, Oakley, Mason, Cooper, Ruby, Hallie
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Raileigh: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/raileigh, updated 20 October 2026.